POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Release 1.7.1 is available

Release 1.7.1 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a bugfix release and contains three fixes for issues found in 1.7.0 and earlier releases, and a minor NetSSL improvement. Please see the CHANGELOG for t Upgrading is recommended if you are affected by the fixed issues.xed issues.


Release 1.7.0 is available

Release 1.7.0 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a maintenance release and contains fixes for issues found in 1.6.1 and earlier releases. A couple of new minor features are in there as well. Please refer to the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Another year has gone way too quickly, so it’s that time of the year to look back at the past 12 months, but also forward to the next year. This year has been a great year for the POCO community, as we now have a great community that drives things forward. I’d like to say […]


ESE Kongress and Meeting C++

In the first week of December two significant events for the German and European software engineering community will take place in Germany. The Embedded Software Engineering Congress – Germany’s biggest congress for professional embedded software engineering – will take place from November 30 to December 4 in Sindelfingen. And December 4 and 5 the Meeting […]


POCO Usage Survey – Results

After having it open for 20 days, I have closed our POCO Usage survey today. We’ve collected 53 responses in total which is not really that much but at least something to work with. So, without further ado, here are the results: Question 1: Which POCO libraries are you currently using in your project? We […]


POCO Usage Survey – Please Help

I’ve created a short survey on SurveyMonkey to get some insights how POCO is being used. Please take it – should not take more than three minutes. Your input will help us make future POCO releases better. Thank you!


Release 1.6.1 is available

Release 1.6.1 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This is a maintenance release and contains fixes for issues found in 1.6.0. We’ve also added support for Visual Studio 2015. Please refer to the CHANGELOG for the details.


Trip Report: Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit and NDC Oslo

I spent the last week traveling, first to Paris, to attend the Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, then to Oslo for NDC. At the Innovation Summit in Paris, Sierra Wireless introduced a new open hardware project called Project mangOH. This is basically a base board for Sierra Wireless (and also other manufacturer’s) embedded modules, based on […]


Meet me at NDC Oslo

I’ll be giving a talk at this year’s NDC Oslo on Thursday, June 18. My talk is titled “Building IoT Device Applications in JavaScript and C++” and I’ll speak about my experience in building macchina.io, combining POCO with the V8 JavaScript engine and a couple of other really cool C++ frameworks. I’ll be at the […]


Meet me at Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, June 17, in Paris

I’ll be at the Sierra Wireless Innovation Summit, a full-day IoT Innovation conference in Paris on June 17. Meet me there to see a demo of macchina.io, my new really cool POCO-based platform for building IoT gateways and devices. The event features technical and business tracks, plenty of real-life use cases, an exciting showroom with […]