quickfix-announce

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

QuickFIX 1.9.0 is now available at http://www.quickfixengine.org/

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php? 
group_id=37535&release_id=266040

First of all, the release is *much* faster.  By doing some extensive  
profiling and with the help of some contributors, in particular Caleb  
Epstein and Kritstopher Peterson, we have radically improved our  
message parsing and generation capabilities.  Run the performance tests  
on 1.8.0 and 1.9.0 and you'll see what I mean.

Also, we have the long awaited support for week long sessions.   
Everybody who has been connecting to the CME with QuickFIX can throw  
their custom hacks away.  John Dahl over at the CME was even gracious  
enough to do a little testing.

Also, we have added the SessionQualifier tag.  This allows you to have  
sessions with identical BeginString, SenderCompID and TargetCompID, yet  
still be different sessions.  Thank you to Pasquale d'Aloise for the  
idea.

There are a bunch of other little fixes.  Remaining VB.NET compilation  
problems have been addressed.  Made an effort to make sure QF will  
compile under SunPRO.  An improvement to the Session for handling  
continuously high traffic and more.

--oren