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This is the first official release of Libchipcard5. From this version on, Libchipcard no longer provides its own resource manager. Instead, PC/SC is now used. This greatly increases the range of supported devices. This release needs the latest version of Gwenhywfar4.
This is the first beta release for libchipcard5. From this version on, libchipcard will no longer ship its own resource manager, but instead uses PC/SC.
This makes Libchipcard support readers that previously were poorly supported or not supported at all.