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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.12.5p2 and 1.11.8p2 Available

These patch releases fix a long-standing integer overflow bug in Poco::UTF32Encoding. Upgrading from earlier releases is strongly advised. For completeness, here is the CHANGELOG for 1.12.5p2, and here the CHANGELOG for 1.11.8p2.

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POCO C++ Libraries Patch Releases 1.12.5p1 and 1.11.8p1 Available

These patch releases fix a backwards compatibility issue in Poco::FileInputStream and Poco::FileOutputStream that was introduced in 1.12.5 and 1.11.8. Upgrading from 1.12.5 and 1.11.8 is recommended. For completeness, here is the CHANGELOG for 1.12.5p1, and here the CHANGELOG for 1.11.8p1.

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POCO C++ Libraries Maintenance Releases 1.12.5 and 1.11.8 Available

These are maintenance releases for the 1.12 and 1.11 release series. Upgrading is recommended for all users of 1.12.5/1.11.7 or earlier. Here is the CHANGELOG for 1.12.5, and here the CHANGELOG for 1.11.8.

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.11.7 Available

This maintenance release fixes a few issues, has some improvements, and upgrades bundled SQLite to the latest release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of 1.11.6 and earlier releases. The details are in the CHANGELOG.

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POCOpro C++ Frameworks Release 2023.1 Available

We are happy to announce release 2023.1 of the POCOPRO C++ Frameworks. This release contains a number of improvements in the commercially-licensed Open Service Platform (OSP) and Remoting frameworks. This release is based on POCO C++ Libraries release 1.11.6. OSP Changes Remoting Changes For our customers, source code packages are available on our download server.

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.11.6 Available

This maintenance release fixes a few issues. Upgrading is recommended for all users of 1.11.5 and earlier releases. The details are in the CHANGELOG.

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Tip: How to Fix Poor Scrolling Performance in Visual Studio 2022 Running in a Windows VM

If you run Visual Studio 2022 on a Windows VM (in VMware Fusion), you may notice very poor performance when scrolling in the source code editor. This is not the case with earlier Visual Studio versions. After some playing around with settings, the culprit seems to be 3D graphics acceleration enabled for the VM. There […]

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POCO C++ Libraries Releases 1.12.4 and 1.11.5 Available

These releases upgrade the bundled expat library to 2.5.0, which fixes CVE-2022-43680. In addition, release 1.12.4 fixes an issue in PollSet (introduced in 1.12.0) that can lead to 100 % CPU load in SocketReactor on single-core CPUs. The complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG.

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POCO C++ Libraries Releases 1.12.3 and 1.11.4 Available

This release upgrades the bundled third-party libraries expat, zlib and SQLite to their latest releases, which fix some potential vulnerabilities (zlib CVE-2022-37434, expat CVE-2022-40674, SQLite CVE-2022-35737). A few issues have been fixed as well. The complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG. Furthermore, we have also released 1.11.4, which also upgrades of the third-party libraries.

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Release 1.12.2 Available

This is another maintenance release that fixes a few issues introduced in 1.12.0 and 1.12.1. The complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG.

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