{{Quickfixn}} 1.4.0beta prerelease is up for download

[Grant Birchmeier]

I'd like to announce the prerelease for the next version: 1.4.0beta,
now available on our Downloads page.
http://quickfixn.org/download

The most critical fixes in this release are
* session schedule fixes for start/end days/times and daylight savings
* tolerance for non-ASCII characters (utf8 and such)

We would greatly appreciate anyone who can download and try this build
out for the next week or two.  I know these features/fixes have been
desired by many for some time now, and I want to make sure we have
them right before we make this release "official".

And please, feedback about good behavior is desired too!  If the
session schedule stuff is working correctly in ways that it was
failing before, please say so.  The same with international
characters.  We've tested these features to the best of our ability,
but we'd really like assurances that things are running well against
live FIX interfaces or in production-style situations.

Also in this build: experimental Mono support!  Mike Gatny has been
tweaking code and adapting scripts to allow development and execution
on Mono.  I don't know if anyone wants to use QF/n on Mono in
production, but it's nice to have the option, and it's doubly nice to
be able to hack on it with a Unix environment.

Here's the full rundown of changes in this version:
* (minor) issue #101 - better exception for when group doesn't use
proper delimiter (gbirchmeier)
* (minor) issue #28 - rename interfaces to start with "I" (gbirchmeier)
* (patch) issue #128 - simplify/improve TradeClient example app (gbirchmeier)
* (minor) issue #135 - fix DateOnly/TimeOnly field support (formator)
* (patch) issue #134 - if DD field/group/component is missing
"required" attribute, treat it as "required=N" (gbirchmeier)
* (patch) issue #114 - enum dupe-check script; corrections to FIX43
tag 574/MatchType (gbirchmeier)
* (patch) scripts and fixes for experimental Mono support (mgatny)
* (minor) issue #97 - tolerance for non-ASCII (e.g. UTF-8) characters
(andbjorn/gbirchmeier)
* (patch) issues #139/#144/#151 - session schedule problems
(gbirchmeier/formator)


Please let us know how this build is working for you.  If we don't
hear about any problems, we'll promote it to non-beta status.

-Grant


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Grant Birchmeier
Connamara Systems, LLC
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