1.6.8 (July 2009)
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        * fixed SCARD_ERROR types to match correct types on linux and Mac OS X (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * store g_rgSCard* references as void* (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * modified Mac OS X build to locate PCSC headers using -framework option (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added contrib root directory and parseATR as first contribution (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * updated a few samples to support  SCARD_PROTOCOL_T0 | SCARD_PROTOCOL_T1 instead of just SCARD_PROTOCOL_T0 (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE definition (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added simpleAPDU.py, a simple script to send a couple of APDUs (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added support for Snow Leopard 10.6 (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * redefined error codes to be non-Windows or -linux specifics (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added definitions of SCARD_ATTR_xxx values for Mac OS X (Jean-Daniel Aussel)
        * delay SCardEstablishContext call until needed instead of login, to allow use of utility classes
          such as toHexString, even when the PCSC resource manager or pcscd daemon is not started (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added javascript code for Piwik web analytics to documentation pages (Jean-Daniel Aussel)
        * update sourceforge logo pages to latest sourceforge standard (Jean-Daniel Aussel)
        * fixed ATR parsing logics (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added control() method to CardConnection() (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added mode argument to connect() method of CardConnection (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added PCSC v2 feature management (Ludovic Rousseau)

1.6.7
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        * better thread support and clean-up in ReaderMonitoringThread (Frank Aune)
        * fixed issue on Mac OS X Leopard with dlsym loading of bad SCardControl function (Mattias Brndstrm)
        * supported build of documentation files on linux and removed unresolved doc links (Ludovic Rousseau) 

1.6.6
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        * added support for Mac OS X Leopard

1.6.5
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        * added sample_MonitorCardsAndTransmit.py sample to illustrate how to transmit apdu to a card notified
          by the card monitor
        * added support for SCardControl (Ludovic Rousseau)
        * added support for Max OS X Tiger (Ludovic Rousseau/Jean-Daniel Aussel) (Leopard not supported)
        * added debian package directory (Ludovice Rousseau)
        * support for python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 distutils
        * automated insertion of sourceforge logo in html pages generated by epydoc
        * fixed documentation generation to include examples

1.6.4
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        * handled several issues reported by Michael Roehner concerning waitforcard() not detecting card in reader/card
          USB stick; changed the waitforcard() and waitforcardevent() to poll every 100ms for new readers and cards in
          these readers
        * following issue reported by Jarle Bauck Hamar, added samples on how to perform exclusive card connection or
          protect transmit() from being interupted by another thread or process
        * fixed ATR parsing error for optional interface bytes reported by Jarle Bauck Hamar

1.6.3
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        * better handling of protocol selection with associated test cases and added getATR_T1 example
          (issue reported by Adam Laurie for T=1 cards, and request from Yong David Huang for
          Omnikey CM5321 RFID that failed with T0|T1 mask).
        * added handling of linux 64-bit platform and graceful exit for unsupported platform, thanks to Henryk Pltz
        * added support for float value timeout in CardRequest, thanks to Henryk Pltz; updated test cases and a
          couple of samples with float timeouts.

1.6.2
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        * started support for Mac OS X Darwin; not yet operational
        * fixed issue with "'NoneType' object is not callable" exception on some
        clean-up routines executed from __del__ methods (CardMonitoring, ReaderMonitoring, CardConnection)
        * added default protocol, protocol argument to CardConnection.connect(), and get/setProtocol methods
        to CardConnection, PCSCCardConnection and CardConnectionDecorator

1.6.1
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        * maintenance release:
                - define LPCTSTR and LPTSTR for recent releases of pcsc-lite
                - print formatting of userdata in SCardHelper_PrintReaderStateList
                - updated home page and download links to point to sourceforge.net


1.6.0
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        * released open-source with LGPL license

