POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO 1.3 is Coming!

We are currently hard at work finishing the 1.3 release of POCO. Highlights of the new version will be official release of the Data library, the addition of Tuple and DynamicAny, HashMap and HashSet, shared memory support and lots of other improvements and bugfixes. Expect a preview release next week. The final release will be […]


POCO Article in ACCU Journal

The latest issue of CVu, one of the fine magazines of the ACCU, has published my article A Guided Tour of the POCO C++ Libraries, which gives an overview of the POCO libraries, with code samples. I hope this will help to make POCO known to an even wider audience. And at this point, welcome […]


POCO 1.2.9 Released

Time for another POCO bugfix release. 1.2.9 fixes various bugs and brings some performance improvements, most notable in the HTTP classes. Sergey N. Yatskevich contributed various patches for this release – thank you! Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.


Herb Sutter About Exception Specifications

An insightful blog entry by Herb Sutter on C++ exception specifications and why they’re best avoided.


pocoproject.org

This website is now also reachable under the pocoproject.org domain. This is the first step in getting the POCO Community Website off the appinf.com domain and server, where it is hosted now. If you want to link to the POCO website, please use the new domain.


POCO 1.2.8 Released

New year, new POCO release. POCO 1.2.8 is available! This is mostly a bugfix release, although some improvements have been made to the format functions in Foundation. Changelog: – fixed SF# 1613906: Util/Application.h and GCC 3.3 – fixed a byte order issue (failed test) in IPv6 address formatting – fixed SF# 1626640: Poco::Net::SocketReactor bug – […]


POCO Development Roadmap

I have prepared a Wiki page containing the POCO development roadmap. There’s not much there yet, but this will for sure change in the coming days and weeks. Just keep those feature requests coming…


Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year to all friends of POCO. 2006 was a great year for POCO, with the 1.0 release in January, the adoption of the Boost license in July, and the 1.2 release in August. 2007 will be even better! A big thank you to all who contributed to POCO, in the form of […]


Merry Christmas!

A merry christmas to everyone from the POCO team at Applied Informatics! Since all of you have been so nice this year, we have a special present for you: the NetSSL library providing SSL/TLS support for Net (based on OpenSSL), which up to now was only available as part of a commercial service level agreement, […]


POCO 1.2.7 Released

POCO 1.2.7 is available.* This is mostly a bugfix release fixing all bugs and inconveniences reported on Sourceforge and elsewhere. Changes: Poco::File: fixed root directory handling fixed UUIDGenerator documentation clarified Application::setUnixOptions() documentation fixed SF# 1597022: Signed/unsigned warning in StringTokenizer::operator[] fixed SF# 1598601: Message::op= leaks fixed SF# 1605960: PatternFormatter crashes on custom property fixed SF# 1605950: […]