POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


New 1.2 Snapshot Available

A new snapshot release of 1.2 (poco-1.2-20060816) is available from SourceForge. This release is now feature complete and contains the proposed changes to namespaces and header file locations. If no severe issues will show up, the official 1.2 release will be available next week. The changelog is here. And the updated reference documentation is here. […]


Preview of Release 1.2 Available

I have posted a preview of the upcoming 1.2 release to SourceForge (poco-1.2-20060810). Get it from here. The changelog is here. And the updated reference documentation for 1.2 is here. This release has not yet been tested on all platforms, so you might experience some rough edges. It should work fine on Windows, Linux and […]


Coding Styleguide Updated

I have updated the Coding Styleguide. Not much has changed, content wise, but the whole thing should be a bit clearer now. Thanks Alex for your remarks. I recently stumbled across the Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards, which have recently been declassified and made available to the public. Might be an interesting […]


The Wiki is now open!

The POCO Community Wiki is now open and ready for your contributions. Also available are various Forums and answers to frequently asked questions (more are coming soon…). Please help fill the site with some life!


Welcome to the POCO Community!

The POCO project was started in 2004 by Günter Obiltschnig. In the following years he was joined by developers from Applied Informatics and the open source community. Günter has been a fan of the open source model for many years. This led to the decision to make POCO available for free, under the Boost license. […]