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Merry Christmas from the POCO C++ Libraries and Applied Informatics teams and all the best wishes for 2013!

Current development branch is now frozen and tagged as 1.5.1 pre-release in GitHub.
Until release, the development branch will remain frozen and any changes will be pushed to separate branches.
Please download or check it out, run some tests, report bugs, etc.

git clone https://github.com/pocoproject/poco.git

Download links (LF line ending only!):
https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/archive/poco-1.5.1-pre-release.zip
https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/archive/poco-1.5.1-pre-release.tar.gz

Latest Commit:
https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/commit/16533ef73b7d4b68c0fac5247769aed800704bc0

1.5.1 Release is scheduled for Monday, December 24 2012.

Update: Release was postponed for at least a week. Pre-release archives can be downloaded from:

https://github.com/pocoproject/downloads/tree/master/poco-pre-1.5.1

Update 2: Release is available now:

http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=726

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POCO Team

During the month of December, we will be transitioning to GitHub issue tracker. By the end of 2012, all SF issues will be either (a) resolved, (b) discarded or (c) moved to GitHub. Please enter new issues in GitHub issue tracker. If you have a patch, please submit it as a pull request.
POCO Team

For the 1.4.5 release, I’ve for the first time put the downloads on GitHub in addition to SourceForge. Since it took a very long time for the downloads to become available on SourceForge (and my frustration with SourceForge has been growing lately, especially after the upgrade disaster), the download page links to the files on GitHub. This lead to an interesting observation. While SourceForge download statistics show around 5.900 total downloads per month for October (which was a new all-time high), as of today GitHub shows a total of 8757 downloads for 1.4.5 after only a week. So where do these contradicting numbers come from? Ideas anyone?

The C++ Libraries and Tools from Applied Informatics are based on the POCO C++ Libraries and add additional features such as Remoting for RPC/IPC and SOAP/WSDL web services, Open Service Platform for building modular, extensible applications, DNSSD/Zeroconf, Universal Plug and Play, Fast Infoset processing or secure remote access to smart devices. New in release 2012.1 is support for C++ code generation from XML Schema and WSDL documents, allowing Remoting to invoke SOAP 1.1/1.2 web services created using other middleware technologies such as Java JAX-WS or Microsoft .NET WCF. In addition to SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, the new Remoting also supports MTOM, HTTP Basic and Digest authentication and HTTP compression (gzip content encoding), as well as remote events with the new TCP transport.
A free evaluation version is available for download.

This release brings support for Visual Studio 2012, as well as some bugfixes and enhancements. See the CHANGELOG for the details. Available on the download page.

We’ve been asked and nudged for a long time to make the move; like everything else, it was something that requires resources of time and effort so it did not happen as fast as it should have. But finally, we’ve made it over to GitHub and now we can enjoy the benefits. Branching and merging is simple and intuitive, forking is readily available; we already have 632* “forkers” and 27100* “stargazers“.

I like the code-centered paradigm of GitHub – everything (as it should) revolves around and is linked with code. My favorite feature is the “network graph” (depicted below) showing who forked and what changes were synced. We have a proto-wiki with roadmap and supported platforms.

So, if you have not done it yet, what the fork are you waiting for?  Stop by, hang around and – fork it!

The POCO Network Graph

The POCO C++ Libraries source code is now on GitHub. The old Subversion repository on SourceForge will no longer be maintained.

The Future of C++

Friday, November 2, 2012 12:45pm (U.S. Pacific Time)

This talk will give an update on recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, with some announcements of interest in both areas. The speaker is the lead language architect of Visual C++ and chair of the ISO C++ committee.

UPDATE (Nov 4 2012): It turns out 1.5 release was just in time for the front page.

ISOCpp.org Announcement

After talk interview

It’s official! C++ now has it’s own “Marketing Department” and a reliable place to go learn about the language, where is it going and what’s happening around it.

According to isoccp.org About page, goals are:

1) To promote dissemination of correct and up-to-date information about modern C++.

2) To promote greater availability of high-quality C++ libraries, including both standard libraries (by reducing barriers to submitting and adopting libraries in Standard C++ itself) and community libraries (by having an organized, and ideally tool-supported, way for C++ developers to discover and use libraries).

To stay in tune with your favorite language, make sure to bookmark the above web site and visit often.