{{Quickfixn}} Quickfixn Digest, Vol 130, Issue 1

[Francis Gingras]

Thank you Grant for taking care of your faithful flock of chickens :-)

Cheers,

Francis Gingras


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>    1.  QuickFIX/n 1.11.0 is released (Grant Birchmeier)
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> From: Grant Birchmeier <gbirchmeier at connamara.com>
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> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:24:24 -0500
> Subject: {{Quickfixn}} QuickFIX/n 1.11.0 is released
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm happy to formally announce the release of QuickFIX/n 1.11.0.
>
> A big thanks to everyone who has submitted fixes and helped to improve
> the project.
>
> *There are breaking changes in this release!  *Most of these changes
> aren't too radical, but you should read the following to make sure:
>
>    - *All libraries are now using .NET 6*
>    - *FIX5 applications now need the new FIXT11 dll *- FIX11
>    message classes now exist and can be cracked.
>    - *All deprecations are removed* - I'm reasonably certain most of
>    these removals will not affect anyone; they are deep in the library, or
>    non-C#-convention-named functions that have long been supplanted by correct
>    names.  I will be glad to help anyone who is having trouble migrating.
>    - *Seqnums are now UInt64* - Note the INT->SEQNUM changes in
>    FIX40/41/42.xml DDs! You may need to update your DDs.  This is a step
>    towards support of Continuous Markets.
>
> Plus we have the usual non-breaking updates and fixes, some notable ones
> are:
>
>    - conversion to and from the FIX Trading Community’s JSON Encoding for
>    FIX Protocol
>    - dictionary-parsing performance improvements
>    - allow decimal fields to use exponential notation
>    - case-sensitive-filesystem bugfixes
>
> For issue numbers and more details, see
> https://github.com/connamara/quickfixn/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
>
> Here's our official press release which is a bit more wordy and a bit less
> technical:
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quickfixn-1110-now-enhanced-sequence-number-support
>
> I did wrestle with whether these breaking changes should warrant a
> major-version-number increase (per semantic versioning rules), but decided
> against it.  "v2" might get people thinking that this release is a
> significant change, but it just isn't.  Most FIX4 users probably won't even
> notice, and FIX5 users should only see the minor speedbump of needing to
> grab the FIXT dll.
>
> It's been a long wait, and we're excited to finally get this out.  Please
> let us know how it goes!
>
> -Grant
>
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