Latest beta version: 1.5.8.461
This version contains new features, changes and bug fixes based on user feedback.
Click the button below to download Beta version for all platforms (x86, x86_64 and arm64).
What's new in Beta version?
- Added service settings tab to Preferences window
- Service settings: added "Autostart config enabled" option (enabled by default). Now autostart can be disabled without deleting autostart config.
- Service settings: added "Handle power events" option (enabled by default). The emulation is stopped on suspend event and started on resume event.
- Mapper device has been deprecated. Recommended replacement: Redirector + Connector.
- Added "Delete license key" menu command
- Added "Load autostart config", "Delete autostart config" and "Autostart" menu commands.
- Property list control: supporting multiline tool tips
- Property list control: added Description panel
- Terminal and Bridge COM port data source: supporting COM port names like "1" and "COM1"
- Terminal: added cooldown before trying to reconnect
- Terminal: connect automatically after selecting new data source
- Fixed bug: devices list redraw issue during column resize
Latest released version: 1.5.7.460
Whats new?
- Pair device: added "Number of lanes" parameter which significantly simplifies configuring multiple 3rd party apps with Serial Router
- Serial Router: added support for FT-710, FT-991, FT-950, TS-690 and TS-870 CAT compatible protocols
- Serial Router: automatically connecting to all lanes when one of target ports is Pair device with multiple lanes
- Serial Router: start time significantly improved
- Added drag and drop support to VSPE application for loading config file
- TcpServer, TcpClient: added "Read and discard stale data from COM port" option (enabled by default) to avoid buffering stale data if TCP connection not established
- Displaying error message for selected device in status bar (such as TcpClient failed connection status)
- Added device error message in the device list Status column
- TcpClient: logging connection error messages to log file
- Device Create Wizard: on failure, the device is created in Stopped state
- Device Create Wizard: specifying optional device Title and Description on first page
- Device Properties: added Description tab
- Lots of user interface improvements such as resizable windows, default selections, tab navigation etc
- Message view: limiting number of displayed messages, optimized adding new messages
- Max log file size is now limited to 8 MB
- Terminal: modem registers changes are displayed much faster when Quick Update mode is enabled
- Terminal: added "immediate send mode" checkbox
- TcpServer, UdpManager: added button to check current Windows Firewall settings (checking allow/block rules for specified TCP/UDP ports for VSPE service)
- TcpServer, UdpManager: added suggested PowerShell command to add inbound allow rule to Windows Firewall for specified TCP/UDP ports
- Test COM port tool: skipping configuring COM port with default settings on port open
- Improved compatibility with certain applications
- Stopping TcpClient and Bridge TcpClient is much faster during connection attempt
- Stopping TcpServer with connected clients is much faster
- TcpServer: optimized handling client connections
- Fixed bug: "Sent data" column was reporting wrong value (x2) in Connector,Pair and Splitter devices
- Fixed bug: Terminal not displaying new data after clearing window if the previous data is the same
- Fixed bug: INF processing error during VSPE install after using certain disk cloning software
- Fixed bug: Occasionally, the application could not be properly closed
- Fixed bug: Fixed rare race condition in Splitter when ReadTotalTimeout was not properly processed
- Fixed bug: Fixed handling PURGE_RXABORT request
Virtual Serial Ports Emulator for 64 bit Windows operating systems
- For 64 bit (x86_64 or arm64) Windows operating systems. Requires license.
- Before ordering the license, feel free to validate if VSPE works for your scenarios.
Virtual Serial Ports Emulator for 32 bit Windows operating systems
For 32 bit (x86) Windows operating systems. Does not require license (free).
Updating VSPE from an older version
- Close all applications which are currently using VSPE virtual COM ports.
- Uninstall old VSPE version.
- Reboot computer. This is not required but recommended (if previous VSPE version was older than 1.5).
- Download latest VSPE version from this web site for your platform (x64, arm64 or x32 zip archive).
- Open/extract zip archive and run MSI file for your operating system platform (for example SetupVSPE_64.msi).
- Thats it. Reboot is not required.
Previous VSPE versions
We strongly recommend to use the latest VSPE version.
Please contact us if you need to download old VSPE version which is not included in the list below.