POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


CII Best Practices

I recently did a review of our project with regards to the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices, in order to ensure we’re following industry best practices with POCO. Things looked very good, with only a few best practices missing, which I have fixed in the meantime: Updated the CONTRIBUTING.md file to include a statement […]


Release 1.7.5 Available

Release 1.7.5 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release fixed a potential dangling pointer issue in Poco::JSON::Object, upgrades bundled SQLite to 3.14.1 and contains a few other minor improvements. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.


Release 1.7.4 Available

Release 1.7.4 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release fixes a couple of issues in the Net and Data libraries and upgrades bundled Expat to 2.2.0 and SQLite to 3.13.0. Note that Expat 2.2.0 fixes a couple of CVE issues, so upgrading is recommended. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details.


Evolution of POCO Visualized

Here is a super-cool visualization of the evolution of POCO from 2006 to 2015, found on YouTube:


Release 1.7.3 is available

Release 1.7.3 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This maintenance release fixes a couple of issues in the Net, Data and Zip libraries and upgrades bundled SQLite to 3.12.2. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


Release 1.7.2 is available

Release 1.7.2 of the POCO C++ Libraries is available. This release upgrades the bundled Expat XML parser to 2.1.1, which fixes a CVE. Furthermore, the bundled SQLite library has been updated to release 3.11.1 and a bug in Poco::Data::RecordSet has been fixed. Please see the CHANGELOG for the details. Upgrading is recommended.


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 […]