Version 2.7.2 (RC)

• End of support for x86_32
• Removed unnecessary files in repo
• Small fixes in preprocessor configuration
• Several source files received better names
• Support for Ubuntu v20
• Fixed bug in command line parser by eliminating dependency to std::regex
• Deployment for Linux: build produces drop-in 'build' directory
• Deployment for Windows: VS solution build produces drop-in 'install' directory
• Extended test coverage

Version 2.7.1 (Beta)

• Dependencies outside the project were eliminated: no Boost, POCO or VLD
• Source code for remaining dependencies are included in the solution to ease build
• Integration with VCPKG has been abandoned (git clone brings everything now)
• 3FD framework has been broken into several smaller projects
• Utilities for UWP platform now rely on C++/WinRT (instead of C++/CX)
• OpenCL module now uses headers from Khronos v1.2
• Broker module now uses nanodbc
• Broker module interface was redesigned for robustness (tests also)
• Fixed bug in namespace resolver for XML queries
• Cleaned up projects configuration (removed XP-toolset build option)
• Source code compilation is now compliant with C++17 standard of VS2017 v15.9
• Default compiler for Linux platform upgraded to GCC v8.4
• Simplified build scripts for Linux

Version 2.6.3 (Stable)

• New module available for XML parsing with a query oriented interface and support for namespaces, built on top of rapidxml, replacing the previous dependency on POCO XML/Utils
• Upgraded development platform compliance in linux to Ubuntu 18.04 x64 with GCC v7.3
• Added VS2017 solution for development in linux (remote compilation)
• Improved bootstrap, config and build scripts for linux
• For better experience in VS, projects for linux build are now using VC++ build system instead of invoking CMake

3FD v2.6.2 (RC)

• Ported solution to Visual C++ 2017 (Windows 10 build 10.0.15063) and Clang 3.9
• Moved SQLite, RapidXML, POCO, Boost and googletest dependencies to outside the project
• In Windows platform, dependencies were moved into VCPKG package management (no support for WinXP, yet)
• In Linux, dependencies are now dealt by bootstrap script
• Improved bootstrap and build procedures for Linux
• Upgraded googletest to v1.8 to be C++17 compliant for msvc compiler
• Upgraded also POCO, Boost and SQLite libraries in Linux
• Fixed bug integration tests for WWS module
• Fixed bug in RPC module that would lead to incorrectly formatted numbers when displaying extended error information
• Improved behavior of class for system event for better consistency
• Introduced an STL compliant and optimized allocator for better cache efficiency in memory intensive tasks, relying in the newly available memory pools from STL <memory_resources> header
• Improved implementation of algorithm for binary search of ranges
• Improved unit tests for algorithms
• Refactored resource concurrency to use exponential back-off in all eligible cases, including the SQLite wrappers

3FD v2.5.3 (stable)

• Changed build script for Windows to always produce both debug and release output, so as to make it standard tool to generate a framework installation
• Added installation of MSSQL ODBC driver to setup shell script for Ubuntu Linux, plus small improvements
• Stripped the framework solution out of sample applications, which were moved to their own repositories
• Fixed bug in initialization that would lead to stack corruption whenever the configuration file loading/parsing fails
• Added capability of loading error info from an HMODULE in WWAPI::AppendDWordErrorMessage
• Improved error handler for task chains in UWP apps
• Corrected UWP XAML report helper: no longer displaying stack trace of exception
• Replaced POCO XML parser in configuration module by RAPIDXML to speed-up initialization, mainly in WinRT apps
• SQLite source updated to v3.21.0

3FD v2.5.2 (RC)

• Ported IO serialization utilities to linux
• Changed format of XML configuration file
• Fixed memory leaks in RPC module and its tests
• Fixed crash that would happen upon transportation of exception from another thread
• Fixed crash that would happen upon elaboration of report with extended RPC error information
• Fixed/improved error output upon WWS errors
• Fixed bug in WWS module that would make channel properties (additional to the ones defined in wsutil.exe generated source) be ignored
• Reduced memory footprint of WWS hosts
• Made compiler optimizations for enhanced instruction sets (SSE2/AVX2) dependent on environment variables MSVC_X86_RELEASE_EINSTSET and MSVC_X64_RELEASE_EINSTSET, so as to keep default built binaries compatible with older hardware
• More fault tolerance/graceful degradation in Broker, WWS and RPC modules: attempt to recover from loss of connection or bad reply, using retries when applicable
• Added capability of non-hardcoded settings in XML configuration of applications
• Changes in most important parameters for tests no longer require recompilation from source because they are now XML configured
• Stardardized configuration of VS projects
• SQLite source updated to v3.20
• Dependency libraries are updated. On Windows: Boost v1.65.1 and POCO C++ 1.7.9. On Linux: Boost v1.65.1 and POCO C++ v1.7.8p3.
• Improvements on build & setup process for POSIX
• Build/install for Windows from source code of solution and dependencies is now fully automated by Powershell script
• Port to Windows 7: Win32 projects now run in Win7 (and theorically XP too) when compiled by vs140_xp toolset

3FD v2.4.3 (stable)

• Fixed bug in configuration loading for WinRT
• Fixed bug with chosen image container in ImageTranscoder UWP app
• Fixed bug in ImageTranscoder source caused by file name collision that would happen whenever transcoding JXR to JXR
• Improved handling of framework initialization in linked components
• Improved exception report for HRESULT and POCO C++ errors
• Ported ImageTranscoder to UWP app platform
• Removed old projects for Win8.1, only UWP now
• Added helpers to report error details in UWP app UI
• Added printf-like based serialization to text
• Restructured solution directories for WinRT projects
• SQLite source updated to v3.19.2

3FD v2.4.2 (RC1)

• SQLite source updated to v3.18.0
• Added new sample application ImageTranscoder
• Added binary search generic algorithms to utilities
• Improved implementation of integration tests to ease the setup of development environment
• Tweaked configuration for compilation of tests in release builds, so as to optimize further for modern CPU's
• Compilable in Clang v3.8 on Linux
• Minor fixes and improvements

3FD v2.4.1 (beta)

• New broker module to ease the use of MSSQL Service Broker (working also in POSIX)
• Improved usage of ISAM module interface with more meaningful parameters in definition of tables and indexes

3FD v2.3.3 (stable)

• Upgraded embedded SQLite implementation to v3.17.0