[Quickfix-developers] New Quickfix stable release

[Matteo B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hello all,

I'm an IT manager in a small business company.
We are looking for a robust and flexible open source FIX engine:
we think Quickfix could be the best choice, but we have some critical
doubts:

1) In the next month, we are interesting to develop a FIX framework (for
.NET platform) that supports
  also FIX 5.0 and FAST FIX protocol specifications, but it seems that QF
supports only FIX 4.0 - 4.4 protocols.
  Moreover, we saw that the last stable release (1.12.4) came out on
September, 2006.
  When is planned a new stable release? Will it include also FIX5/FAST
support?
 2) Is QF library fully .NET 3.5 compatible? Are there any known issues
regarding that platform?
  QF Source code include only .NET 1.1/2.0 VS solution file.

3) Are there any critical issues (eg high performance or memory
degradations) using QF on very large
  amount of market data (more 100,000 orders/hour in production
environment)?

Your replies are extremely important in order to know if QF is suitable for
our system.
Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Matteo Bisi