Today marks the fifth anniversary of the first public release of the POCO C++ Libraries. On February 21, 2005, release 0.91.1 was uploaded to Sourceforge, as documented in the CHANGELOG. We’ve come a long way since then. Happy 5th Birthday, POCO! And a big Thank You to everyone who has contributed in all these years.
I am happy to introduce the first official sponsor of the POCO C++ Libraries project: Schneider Electric Buildings (formerly TAC). They have been using POCO since 2006 in a large project in the building automation industry. Since they started using POCO as early as 2006, they have also been one of the first companies (if […]
Since a few people have suggested moving the project to GitHub, I am willing to give it a try. Before doing so however, I’d like to collect some input and feedback. First, how should we set up the project on GitHub? The simplest way would be to move the entire SVN tree (with trunk, sandbox […]
As stated in a blog post some months ago, I am now looking for sponsors to help funding POCO C++ Libraries development. After considering a few alternatives, including setting up a non-profit organization overseeing project direction and funding, I came to the conclusion that, at least at the beginning, sponsorship agreements will be handled by […]
Release 1.3.6p2 is a another patch release for 1.3.6 containing various bugfixes. Upgrading is recommended for everyone using the Crypto, NetSSL, Net and XML libraries. As always, for a complete list of changes, please see the CHANGELOG.
The Wikipedia article on POCO could need some help, as it has recently been marked as not meeting the notability guidelines and is in danger of being deleted. Could someone (who’s not a POCO maintainer) please take some time and add some more content to the article (maybe a History, License and Implementation section), as […]
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone using and contributing to the POCO C++ Libraries!
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 […]
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 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++ […]