25.12 release

v25.12.00 build 0591f775 released 2026-01-17

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• Major Changes

  • more C++20 support
  • Clang friendly

  • API change:

    • Logging subsystem has been reworked. Logging became ~twice faster.

    • fmt lib v12 has been linked in to do logging using C++ parameters packs instead of stream approach.

      • // was
      • glout_warn << "invalid fd(" << fd << ") for epoll read, ignored";
      • // became
      • GLOUT_WARN("invalid fd({}) for epoll read, ignored", fd);

• Externals have been upgraded to

  • Library old_Version new_Version

    • openssl 3.5.1 3.6.0
    • cctz 2.4 2.5
    • tbb 2022.0 2022.2
    • protobuf 5.29.1 5.29.5
    • boost-asio 1.86 1.89
    • nng 1.9 1.11
    • cppzmg 4.10 4.11
    • curl 8.11 8.17
    • hiredis 1.2 1.3
    • gtest 1.15.2 1.17
    • hlohmann-json 3.11.3 3.12
    • log4cxx 1.3 1.5

• Improved

  • Issue Summary

    • FX-1252 move logger to formatting using params pack and fmt
    • FX-1276 Build for Fedora42/43

• Fixed

  • Issue Summary

    • FX-1279 Sometimes initiator session remains in the "logon_sent" state instead of "continuous"
    • FX-1280 Fix HighFrequencyPerf.* tests

25.09 release

v25.09.00 build a9355512 released 2025-09-26

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• Major Changes

  • C++20 release, requires __cplusplus >= 202002L
  • Clang friendly
  • Added compress_after log flag that compresses log file after rotation and keeps recent log file uncompressed

  • API change:

    • const std::string& MessageBase::get_msgtype() const noexcept => const f8LocalString& MessageBase::get_msgtype() const noexcept
    • To pass the result as std::string, use f8LocalString.to_string_view()|.to_string()
    • Message supplementals member is stored by pointer instead of by value to save message creation/deletion time
    • Added Message::add_field(...) to chain field composition in addition to operator<<:

• Externals have been upgraded to

  • Library Version
  • openssl 3.5.1
  • poco 1.14.1
  • mongo-cxx-driver 4.0.0
  • None of the external libraries are exposed. The libraries are linked in statically.

• Improved

  • Issue Summary

    • FX-1269 Make a custom build with _ENABLE_RAWMSG_SUPPORT
    • FX-1270 Provide with RAWMSG_SUPPORT=ON and mongoDB support
    • FX-1271 Add FIX8 prefix or suffix to plugin load methods
    • FX-1273 Make docker container image for UFEGW console, update on release

• Fixed

  • Issue Summary

    • FX-1264 Remove zlib.h from public header gzstream.h
    • FX-1274 time_to_epoch() in Tickval::as_tm does not support dates outside 1969-2100

24.12 release

v24.12.00 build e1ef7ae2 released 2025-01-05

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• Major Changes

  • C++20 release, requires __cplusplus >= 202002L
  • Clang friendly
  • Added compress_after log flag that compresses log file after rotation and keeps recent log file uncompressed

  • API change:

    • const std::string& MessageBase::get_msgtype() const noexcept => const f8LocalString& MessageBase::get_msgtype() const noexcept
    • To pass the result as std::string, use f8LocalString.to_string_view()|.to_string()
    • Message supplementals member is stored by pointer instead of by value to save message creation/deletion time
    • Added Message::add_field(...) to chain field composition in addition to operator<<:

• Externals have been upgraded to

  • Library Version
  • zlib 1.3.1
  • openssl 1.1.1n1
  • poco 1.12.5
  • cctz 2.4.0
  • fmt 11.0.2
  • tbb 2022.0.0.0
  • libuuid 1.0.3.14
  • protobuf 5.29.1.0
  • boost-asio 1.86.0.0
  • nng 1.9.0.0
  • nngpp 1.3.0.3
  • zeromq 4.3.5.2
  • cppzmq 4.10.0.0
  • curl 8.11.1.0
  • hiredis 1.2.0.0
  • gtest 1.15.2.0
  • nlohmann-json 3.11.3.1
  • backward-cpp 2023-11-24.1
  • None of the external libraries are exposed. The libraries are linked in statically:

• Socket layer has been rebuilt to have customizable socket implementation. Currently available implementations:

  • boost socket - based on boost::asio socket
  • poco socket - based on Poco::Socket
  • Socket type could be selected in Session Configuration
  • Almost removed Poco library dependency except for poco-socket

23.12 release

v23.12.00 build e1ef7ae2 released 2024-02-18

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• Important note The next release would follow C++20 standard and may require at least GCC12 or GCC13.

• Major Changes

  • Socket layer has been rebuilt to allow a custom socket implementation in the future
  • Removed a lot of outdated code inherited from Fix8 OSS
  • Fix8Pro became CLang friendly, internal CLang/libstdc++ build has been implemented
  • Added more SSL tests
  • Important note: The next release would follow C++20 standard and may require at least GCC12.
  • Message containers reverted to ordered_vector<pair<tag, ptr>> to speed up search/access.
  • Added lower_bound algo template parameter to both ordered vectors: branchless (default) or std. Branchless algo is 2-3 times faster on typical array size.
  • Optimized integer parsing utility.
  • Made code to be GCC13 friendly.
  • Fedora38 build is available.

23.06 release

v23.06.00 build e1ef7ae2 released 2023-07-29

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• Major Changes

  • Important note: The next release would follow C++20 standard and may require at least GCC12.
  • Message containers reverted to ordered_vector<pair<tag, ptr>> to speed up search/access.
  • Added lower_bound algo template parameter to both ordered vectors: branchless (default) or std. Branchless algo is 2-3 times faster on typical array size.
  • Optimized integer parsing utility.
  • Made code to be GCC13 friendly.
  • Fedora38 build is available.

22.03 release

v22.03.00 build ecd4ece released 2022-05-09

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• Major Changes

  • Introduced public demo docker image with UFEGW
  • f8pc started generating constexpr constants
  • GutHub based CI environment has been set up
  • UFEGW console usability has been improved
  • Fix8Pro example has been updated

  • UFEed adaptors are available on GitHub

    • UFEed C++
    • UFEed C#
    • UFEed Java
    • UFEed Python

21.12 release

v21.12.00 build 7665e38 release 2022-01-15

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• Major Changes

  • Introduced RelWithDebInfo build mode with -O1 -D_DEBUG -DFIX8PRO_DEBUG for releasing in installation archive instead of debug mode
  • Add fix8pro_alloc_tbb shared library that links with all static applications and replace standard allocator with TBB one
  • Added demo mode to Fix8Pro license that allows to run UFEGW w/o license but with restrictions
  • Published open source Fix8Pro example to github: https://github.com/fix8mt/fix8pro_example
  • Add cmake & builder script to share/fix8pro/tests to be able to build test on customer side

  • UFEed adaptors are available on GitHub

    • UFEed C++
    • UFEed C#
    • UFEed Java
    • UFEed Python

21.09 release

v21.09.00 build 2254be5 released 2021-11-06

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• Major Changes

  • f8pc schema compiler is able to generate FIX filed/enum/message/component descriptions

  • UFEed bindings became open source and available on GitHub

    • UFEed C++
    • UFEed C#
    • UFEed Java
    • UFEed Python
  • UFEGW docker image is under construction yet
  • SAI (Simplified Application Interface) has been completely removed from the code
  • Added releases section to fix8mt.com site

21.06 release

v21.06.01 build 7c5dcc9 released 2021-08-20

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• Major Changes

  • Moved to GCC10+ compiler
  • Ubuntu 1804 has been deprecated

  • Deployment shceme would be changed at the next, 21.09 release:

    • all binary components, i.e. F8ME, UFEGW, UFEGW GUI would be deployed as docker container images;
    • Fix8Pro would be built as it is currently for CentOS7, CentOS8. Fedora34, Ubuntu2004;
    • UFEGW adaptors would be published to public github repo and delivered as source code.

v21.06.00 build d29f093 released 2021-08-01

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• Major Changes

  • Added nngulti_lite plugin for topic-less message bus based on high performance nanomsg (NNG)
  • UFEGW GUI has been significantly improved
  • Serious issue, FX-1172 has been fixed that prevented FIX field enum value lookup by string
  • Fix8Pro API doxygen docs site has been updated.

21.03 release

v21.03.00 build 22f043b released 2021-04-25

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• Major Changes

  • Added zmqmulti_lite plugin for topic-less message bus with improved performance
  • UFEGW GUI has been significantly reworked and improved
  • A symbolic link added to the recent log file
  • Added sequence numbers synchronization after logon with sequence numbers mismatch
  • Fix8Pro API doxygen docs site has been updated.
  • Added Fedora33 build.

20.12 release

v20.12.00 build b471d2c released 2021-01-07

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• Major Changes

  • Removed most of external libraries dependency:

      [u@dev01 cmake-build-relwithdebinfo]$ ldd -r libfix8pro.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc17dd3000)
        libfix8proutils.so.2103.0.0 =>
        /home/u/src/f8/fix8pro/cmake-build-relwithdebinfo/libfix8proutils.so.2103.0.0
        (0x00007f7cd482f000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7cd47bb000)
        libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7cd47b5000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7cd45d8000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7cd4492000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7cd4478000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7cd42ad000)
        /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7cd4f69000)
    

  • Added experimental support for CustomMessage and CustomSession for non-FIXT sessions and binary messages.
  • Added experimental support for WFX Spot SBE session.
  • SAI (Simplified Application Interface) has been deprecated.
  • Moved external components build to conan.
  • Sped up UFE C++ binding by using gpb::Arena for memory allocations.
  • Added RHEL6 devtoolset-8 build
  • Fix8Pro API doxygen docs site has been updated.