POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Release 1.12.0 Available

Release 1.12.0 introduces the Prometheus library for building Prometheus metrics exporters and addresses more than 100 issues and pull requests. We have also updated some of the third-party libraries to newer versions, including upgrading PCRE to PCRE2 (10.40). Credits go out to Alex for doing most of the work for this release. As usual, the […]

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Release 1.11.3 Available

This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues introduced in 1.11.2. The complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG.

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Video: Writing a Network Client with POCO

A nice talk by Richard Thomson at the Utah C++ Programmers Meetup. He gives an introduction to the POCO networking classes and then demonstrates how to write a NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) client with POCO.

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Release 1.11.2 Available

This is a maintenance release that adds support for building with OpenSSL 3, fixes a number of issues, and upgrades some bundled dependencies. As usual, the complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG.

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Release 1.11.1 Available

This is a maintenance release that fixes some issues that sneaked into the 1.11.0 and earlier releases, and also upgrades SQLite and PCRE to their latest releases. Upgrading is recommended. As usual, the complete list of closed GitHub issues is in the CHANGELOG.

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Career Opportunity: C++ Backend Developer, Paderborn/Germany

dmc-smartsystems is looking for a C++ Backend Developer. Familiarity with POCO C++ Libraries is a plus 😉 More information on LinkedIn (in German)


Career Opportunity: Software Engineer C++ / Scrum Master (f/m/d) – remote

Our friends at the Hexagon Xalt team are looking for a C++ software engineer and Scrum Master. This is a remote position. You’ll work with Poco and macchina.io in interesting IoT and Edge computing projects. More information can be found here.


Release 1.11.0 Available (Finally!)

After a way too long time since the last release, POCO C++ Libraries release 1.11.0 is now available. We are sorry for the long delay (both Alex and I were too busy with other work) and promise to do better in the future. This release introduces ActiveRecord, a simple and lightweight object-relational mapping (ORM) framework […]

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Top 13 C++ Libraries to Watch Out For

Incredibuild’s list of 13 C++ libraries to watch out for includes the POCO C++ Libraries right after the standard library and Boost. A good position to be in 🙂 They also made a short video.

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Not Dead Yet ;-)

(to paraphrase the book title of Philip David Charles Collins LVO’s excellent biography) A very busy (and in too many other ways “interesting”) year comes to an end. Now would be a good time to reflect upon what has happened in the POCO C++ Libraries project this year. Which is … unfortunately … not that […]