POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.15.3 Available

The POCO C++ Libraries 1.15.3 release is now available, bringing a focused round of bug fixes, security patches, and improved database support. On the database front, the MongoDB module now supports MongoDB 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, with SCRAM-SHA-256 as the new default authentication mechanism, Decimal128 handling, and partial index support. PostgreSQL connection strings now accept […]

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.15.2 is Available

This maintenance release focuses on security hardening and bug fixes. Key changes include TLS 1.3 support for NetSSL_Win, building Crypto and NetSSL with OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED, removal of deprecated non-EVP OpenSSL code (breaking change), significant multipart parsing performance improvements, Prometheus thread/CPU metrics, GNU Hurd platform support, and numerous bug fixes across networking, cryptography, and data handling. All […]

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.15.1 is Available

This is a bugfix and maintenance release that also introduces a few new features: All bundled third-party libraries have been upgraded to their latest releases,including security fixes for libexpat, libpng, zlib, and utf8proc. For details, please see the CHANGELOG.

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.15 is Available

This is a major feature release with C++20 as the default standard, comprehensiveMongoDB replica set support, a new reactor-based HTTP server implementation, ULIDsupport, C++17 modernization of core classes, and significant third-party libraryupgrades. For the details, please see the CHANGELOG. Thanks to Matej Kenda for doing the majority of work on this release.

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.14.1 Available

This release contains a number of bug fixes. Features, Enhancements and Third Party Updates Bug Fixes and Improvements

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POCO C++ Libraries Release 1.12.5p2 and 1.11.8p2 Available

These patch releases fix a long-standing integer overflow bug in Poco::UTF32Encoding. Upgrading from earlier releases is strongly advised. For completeness, here is the CHANGELOG for 1.12.5p2, and here the CHANGELOG for 1.11.8p2.

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POCOpro C++ Frameworks Release 2023.1 Available

We are happy to announce release 2023.1 of the POCOPRO C++ Frameworks. This release contains a number of improvements in the commercially-licensed Open Service Platform (OSP) and Remoting frameworks. This release is based on POCO C++ Libraries release 1.11.6. OSP Changes Remoting Changes For our customers, source code packages are available on our download server.

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POCO Training & Consulting in the USA

As posted earlier, I will spend this summer in Silicon Valley from beginning of July to end of September. This is a great opportunity if anyone is interested in a POCO training, as I can offer these with significantly reduced travel expenses. I’m also available for occasional consulting services during that period. Please contact us […]

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Windows CE Support Is Here

Good news for everyone looking for Windows CE support in POCO. We have created a port of the POCO C++ Libraries to Windows CE 6 based on the current 1.3.7 branch. The port should work on Windows CE 5.x as well, however, testing has only been done on a Windows CE 6 device. There are […]

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone! I’ll take off until Tuesday, then finish the 1.3.4 release so that it goes out next week. A few last-minute additions have unfortunately delayed the release quite a bit. But it’s worth the wait. Some of the new goodies in 1.3.4 include a fully writable XMLConfiguration, a new Poco::Util::Timer class that […]

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