POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Release 1.7.6 Available

Release 1.7.6 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release contains bugfixes and improvements in the Foundation, XML, Util, Net, Data/MySQL and Zip libraries. A special focus of this release was correcting a couple of non-critical issues reported by static code analysis tools. As usual, the full list of changes in in the CHANGELOG. […]


CII Best Practices

I recently did a review of our project with regards to the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices, in order to ensure we’re following industry best practices with POCO. Things looked very good, with only a few best practices missing, which I have fixed in the meantime: Updated the CONTRIBUTING.md file to include a statement […]


Release 1.7.5 Available

Release 1.7.5 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release fixed a potential dangling pointer issue in Poco::JSON::Object, upgrades bundled SQLite to 3.14.1 and contains a few other minor improvements. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.


Release 1.7.4 Available

Release 1.7.4 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release fixes a couple of issues in the Net and Data libraries and upgrades bundled Expat to 2.2.0 and SQLite to 3.13.0. Note that Expat 2.2.0 fixes a couple of CVE issues, so upgrading is recommended. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.


Release 1.7.3 is available

Release 1.7.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This maintenance release fixes a couple of issues in the Net, Data and Zip libraries and upgrades bundled SQLite to 3.12.2. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


Release 1.7.2 is available

Release 1.7.2 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release upgrades the bundled Expat XML parser to 2.1.1, which fixes a CVE. Furthermore, the bundled SQLite library has been updated to release 3.11.1 and a bug in Poco::Data::RecordSet has been fixed. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


Release 1.7.1 is available

Release 1.7.1 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a bugfix release and contains three fixes for issues found in 1.7.0 and earlier releases, and a minor NetSSL improvement. Please see the CHANGELOG for t Upgrading is recommended if you are affected by the fixed issues.xed issues.


Release 1.7.0 is available

Release 1.7.0 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a maintenance release and contains fixes for issues found in 1.6.1 and earlier releases. A couple of new minor features are in there as well. Please refer to the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


Release 1.6.1 is available

Release 1.6.1 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a maintenance release and contains fixes for issues found in 1.6.0. We’ve also added support for Visual Studio 2015. Please refer to the CHANGELOG for the details.


POCO on CppCast

POCO was featured in the Episode 18 on CppCast.