We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to the Lightstreamer family: the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector, now available to you at no additional cost! As many of you are aware, the Apache Kafka® platform is the industry standard for distributed event streaming, used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies. It excels in creating high-performance data…
We are thrilled to announce a momentous new release of Lightstreamer, encompassing both the Lightstreamer Server and all the Lightstreamer Client SDKs and Adapter SDKs. This significant update introduces groundbreaking features and improvements, enhancing the overall performance and functionality of Lightstreamer. Brand New Client SDKs Based on the Unified Client Model We have taken a…
We are proud to announce that Lightstreamer 7.3 has been publicly released. You can download it right now from https://www.lightstreamer.com/download/ The official Docker image and the Amazon EC2 AMI are available too. Lightstreamer 7.3 and the most recent client and adapter SDKs bring many improvements and fixes, mainly covering performance and features. Below are some…
We have started the beta testing of the new Lightstreamer Web Client library, v. 8.1.0. The main difference with the previous version is in the connection setup mechanism, also known as stream-sense. With version 8.1.0, instead of creating a session over HTTP and then switching to WebSocket, a session is created directly over WebSocket, while preserving…
We are delighted to announce that Lightstreamer 7 has been publicly released. You can download it right now from https://www.lightstreamer.com/download/ The official Docker image and the Amazon EC2 AMI are available too. Lightstreamer 7 and the client SDKs include hundreds of improvements and fixes, covering performance, features, compatibility, and licensing. This makes Lightstreamer more solid and faster than ever. Below are…
If you are one of our customers (and if you are not, what are you waiting for?), you know the Lightstreamer company is customer driven. Whenever a customer requests a new feature, we do all we can to comply. So, when a customer asked us if we had a watchOS Client Library on the roadmap, during…
For the last few years, Lightstreamer has been organized into four different editions, which got their names from Italian musical tempo terms, namely Moderato, Allegro, Presto, and Vivace. Now, with the upcoming release of Lightstreamer 7, the editions are going to change, to offer maximum flexibility to our customers. In this post, we will explain…
After a month of beta testing, we released the final version of our SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS version 3.0.0. Version 3.0.0 introduces: Check the beta introductory article for full details and examples. The new SDKs are available through CocoaPods or via direct download, as usual. Native demo projects on GitHub and on the App Store have also been updated to version 3.0.0…
We have recently released a new version of the SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS: 3.0.0 beta. This version introduces a new major feature: support for WebSockets, together with a completely revised documentation and a plethora of minor improvements and bug fixes. See below for more details. Note: if you need download and example pointers, jump directly to the…
Google recently made Kotlin an official application development language for Android. We are very excited to announce that the new version of the Lightstreamer client API for Android embraces Kotlin. By ensuring full support for both Kotlin and Java, the library enables developers to choose their favorite programming language or even mix them. Why Kotlin?…
We are very excited to announce general availability of Lightstreamer Server 6.1, which includes many new features and improvements. Lightstreamer now speaks a brand new protocol, called TLCP. The Android and Java SE client libraries use the new protocol and natively support WebSockets. The iOS client library has become more Swift-friendly. A new client library is available for Microsoft .NET PCL, replacing older .NET, Windows…
We recently released version 2.1.0 of our SDKs for iOS, macOS and tvOS. This version introduces some important changes: See below for more details. Note: if you need download and example pointers, jump directly to the end of the post (“Get the SDKs”). Importing the Client Library Since SDKs are now packaged as a framework, there are…