10 Years of POCO

Today is the 10th anniversary of the first public release of POCO on SourceForge.
Here’s my first entry from the CHANGELOG:

Release 0.91.1 (2005-02-21)
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This is the first public release of the C++ Portable Components.
The release does not contain all features planned for the later 1.0 release
(the NET library is missing, for example), but is already quite usable.
Please refer to the README file for more information and instructions for
building the libraries.

We’ve come quite far in this 10 years. From the first contributions by Alex a few weeks after the first release (I received his first email on March 24), to the 1.0 release in January 2006, to the move to GitHub in November 2012, which tremendously helped POCO’s popularity and also brought many new contributors.

Today, POCO is used in countless projects, ranging from desktop applications, iOS and Android apps, enterprise applications and embedded devices. Although there’s still some work to do in becoming known to an even wider audience (apparently, there are still C++ developers out there who haven’t heard of POCO), I’m quite happy how everything has turned out.

A big Thank You to everyone who has contributed to POCO, via code, donations or bug reports.
Here’s to the next 10 years!