POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Season’s Greetings

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone using and contributing to the POCO C++ Libraries!


1.3.6p1 Released!

Release 1.3.6p1 is a patch release for 1.3.6 that fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.3.6 and earlier releases. Upgrading is recommended for everyone using the Crypto, NetSSL and XML libraries. For the maintainers of the POCO Debian package, this release allows to build POCO in “unbundled” mode, which means the system-provided zlib, pcre, expat […]


1.3.6p1 and 1.3.7

On Monday, Dec 21, we will release 1.3.6p1, which is a bugfix release only, fixing the most severe bugs in 1.3.6. There will also be an 1.3.7 release early next year, containing a few new features, most notable support for an XML pull parser based on the StAX API, as well as HTTP Digest Authentication. […]


Samsung Bada

Samsung has released a new OS/platform for smartphones, based on C++. My initial excitement for the platform has vanished quickly, though, after looking at their introductory presentation for developers. First thing that caught my eye was “two-phase construction”. That immediately rang my alarm bells. This was followed by their explanation that they cannot use C++ […]