[Quickfix-users] QuickFIX 1.14.0. is available
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From: <or...@qu...> - 2014-09-08 17:08:06
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QuickFIX 1.14.0 is available at http://www.quickfixengine.org Release notes at http://www.quickfixengine.org/NEWS Hello all, This release has really been out for about a month, but just getting the word out now. Many performance improvements here. Special thanks to Viktor Pogrebnyak for his contributions. Check the release notes for a full list of changes, but some things to note. The .NET wrapper is now superseded but QuickFIX/n. This is the same process we went through when we removed the JNI wrapper in favor of QuickFIX/J. Like QuickFIX/J, QuickFIX/n has been in production for quite some time, is a native implementation, and has a great company supporting it, in this case Connamara Systems. Visual Studio support is available for VS10, VS11, and VS12. So now it supports the latest public releases. Older versions have been dropped. We are now only supporting versions of Visual Studio that Microsoft distributes with a freely available version of Visual Studio Express. If you want to continue using older legacy versions of Visual Studio you will need to maintain your own solutions, or use an older version of QuickFIX. Out website has been redesigned. It is now just one landing page and has all the same basic information. Check it out, I think you'll find it much easier to find what you need. The documentation has been heavily reformatted and simplified. The idea is to make it a little easier for new users to get going. This tagged release and all previous releases can also be pulled from github. Enjoy! And thank you to the FIX protocol organization for honoring QuickFIX at the FIX Trading Community Americas regional meeting in Chicago. FIX is celebratings it's 20th year, and QuickFIX is now in its 13th year. Back then there was a lot of skepticism that open source would work in the financial industry. Now I can't even keep track of just the open source FIX engines that are available. Thanks for everyone's support for QuickFIX and open source in finance. |