POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO Workshop at ESE Kongress in Germany

At this year’s Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (5-9 December, Sindelfingen, Germany) I’ll give an introductory workshop to POCO. The workshop, titled “Get Connected mit C++ und Open-Source-Bibliotheken” will be on Monday, December 5, from 14:00 to 17:30. Like the entire event, the workshop will be in German language. For more information, please see here.


POCO C++ Libraries Patch Release 1.4.2p1 Available

This release fixes issues for some users caused by a change to Poco::SharedLibrary (use of RTLD_DEEPBIND on Linux). This change has been reverted. Instead, overloads to load() and the constructor are provided that allow flags being passed to the loader. One of the flags currently supported in SHLIB_LOCAL, resulting in dlopen() being called with RTLD_LOCAL […]


POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.4.2 Available

Release 1.4.2 of the POCO C++ Libraries is now available. This release contains bugfixes, some performance improvements and a few new features. As always, the CHANGELOG has all the details. Upgrading is recommended for all users of 1.4.1. Special thanks to Marian Krivos for his help in getting the release ready.


1.4.2 SVN Branch Created

The SVN branch for the upcoming 1.4.2 release has been created today. It already contains a few improvements and bugfixes (see CHANGELOG) and more will be added in the coming days so that we will have a release in the second week of July if everything goes well.


POCO Developers and Users Meetup on July 6 in Ludwigsburg, Germany

We will organize a get-together for POCO developers and users on July 6 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Meet the POCO team from Applied Informatics and fellow POCO users at the Kubus im Forum am Schlosspark, starting at 19:00, to talk about all things related to POCO. Please reply to this post or send us a short […]


Applied Informatics Wins Constantinus Award

Applied Informatics, the company behind POCO, together with electronics design partner company TeBAL is this year’s winner of Austrian’s prestigious consulting award Constantinus in the Open Source category.


AIS Radar (Built With POCO) Available on the App Store

AIS Radar displays AIS (Automatic Identification System) data received from marine AIS transponders such as the ExNC 101 Class B AIS Transponder over a WiFi network. The application has been approved for the App Store yesterday and is now available. The complete processing backend of the application (threading, network connection, AIS data processing, tracking) has […]


Plans for a POCO Cookbook

In the forum, we’re discussing the idea of collaboratively writing a POCO cookbook. Anyone willing to contribute ideas, text, sample code or proofreading time is invited to join the discussion in the forum.


C++ Software Engineer Wanted (San Francisco Bay Area)

Neural ID is looking for a C++ software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. The details are in this post in our new Jobs forum.


Mailing List Changes

In order to consolidate and focus our support resources there will be some changes to our mailing list policy. Experience over the past years has shown that more than 90 % of all support questions are already asked in the forum. In order to build up a central knowledge base and provide a single point […]