Millistream is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.21 of our open source Data Feed API.

• updated mdf_fields.h to the latest version (82 new fields)
• two new MiFID2 messages MDF_M_PRIIP (EPT) and MDF_M_MIFID (EMT)
• performance improvement of numeric field decoding (up to 113% increase)
• automatically deflate the MDF_F_MMT string

As usual this version of MDF is binary compatible with previous versions, so there is no need to recompile client applications, so users (including users of the Java JNI wrapper) can simply upgrade by replacing the libmdf file itself.

MDF 1.0.21 is available for download from the following locations:

• Windows: https://packages.millistream.com/Windows/libmdf-1.0.21.exe
• macOS: https://packages.millistream.com/macOS/libmdf-1.0.21.pkg
• Red Hat / CentOS: https://packages.millistream.com/rpm/
• Debian / Ubuntu: https://packages.millistream.com/apt/
• Source code: https://packages.millistream.com/source/libmdf-1.0.21.tar.gz
• Documentation: ftp://ftp.millistream.com/documents/

Linux users who have added our apt or yum repositories can upgrade by simply issuing:

• Debian/Ubuntu: “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade“
• Red Hat/CentOS/Amazon Linux AMI: “yum upgrade“

Information on how to add these repositories are available at
ftp://ftp.millistream.com/binaries/linux/

And as usual, if you have any questions what so ever regarding this release or other things, don’t hesitate to contact us at tech@millistream.com.

Millistream is proud to announce the release of version 1.0.20 of our open source Millistream Data Feed API for macOS.

Starting with v1.0.20 we provide libmdf via a signed pkg installer for macOS that can be downloaded from https://packages.millistream.com/macOS/libmdf-1.0.20.pkg. The installer contains three components of which two are optional:

1. The libmdf core library file, needed for all applications that use libmdf. Installs to /usr/local/lib (mandatory)
2. The libmdf development files, needed for developers who write C/C++ applications using libmdf. Installs to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include (optional)
3. The libmdf Java and JNI bindings, needed for applications written in Java and/or for developers who write Java applications using libmdf. Installs to /Library/Java/Extensions (optional)

Minimum requirements for the installer is macOS Sierra (10.12) and Java 8 (Spider) for the optional Java files. If you need support for older versions of either then please contact Millistream Tech support.

The full source code for libmdf can be downloaded from https://packages.millistream.com/source/libmdf-1.0.20-2.tar.gz and the source code for the Java and JNI bindings can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.millistream.com/sources/libmdf-java-1.0.20.tar.gz.

Example code for both C/C++ and Java can be downloaded from https://packages.millistream.com/source/mdf_examples.zip, and full documentation can be found at ftp://ftp.millistream.com/documents/.

The Millistream MDA project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.40 of our open source application for updating SQL servers with data from the Millistream Data Feed.

• Fixed an error on PostgreSQL where escaped string containing forward slash “\” characters would be sent wrongly to the SQL server if “standard_conforming_strings” is enabled on the server (which it is per default in newer versions of PostgreSQL).
• Support “connectionstring” setting in mda.config for the Microsoft SQL Server and PostreSQL servers for power users that want to set more options for the connection to the SQL server than the available settings in mda.config allow. When “connectionstring” is used then the other settings such as “username”, “password”, “dbname”, “server” and “port” are ignored by the MDA.
• On Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL a “mda –check-types” could erroneously report errors for “numeric” columns with a length between (10,0) and (19,0).
• When connecting with MySQL/MariaDB, MDA will now read options from the “mda” group in the “my.cnf” file if such a group exists.
• The SSL settings added in v0.9.39 for MySQL/MariaDB will now also work for PostgreSQL (even though they are perhaps best set there using the “connectionstring” setting anyway).
• Added man pages for “mda” and “mda.config” on Linux.

As earlier announced, as of v0.9.33 the database schema is developed independently of the MDA and the latest schema including upgrade scripts is available on our ftp server under the documents section (MDA_schemas_[version].zip). As of this writing the latest database schema is v89 and thus the file is available from ftp://ftp.millistream.com/documents/MDA_schema_89.zip.

Do note however that the latest schemas are only needed if you need the new columns/tables, they are not mandatory to operate the MDA!

We consider MDA 0.9.40 to be the best version of MDA available and we recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible.

MDA 0.9.40 is available for download from the following locations:

• Windows installer: ftp://ftp.millistream.com/binaries/windows/
• Red Hat / CentOS: https://packages.millistream.com/rpm/
• Debian / Ubuntu: https://packages.millistream.com/apt/
• Source code: ftp://ftp.millistream.com/sources/
• Documentation: ftp://ftp.millistream.com/documents/mda.pdf

Windows users upgrade by running the installer for the new version. Linux users who have added our apt or yum repositories can upgrade by simply issuing:

• Debian/Ubuntu: “apt update && apt upgrade“
• Red Hat/CentOS/Amazon Linux AMI: “yum upgrade“

Information on how to add these repositories are available at ftp://ftp.millistream.com/binaries/linux/.

And as usual, if you have any questions what so ever regarding this release or other things, don’t hesitate to contact us at tech@millistream.com.

Even though the release date of Debian 9 “Stretch” is yet unknown, it went into full freeze at 2017-02-05 and consequently we have updated our DEB repository with builds of all our software products for Debian 9.

For fresh installs all you have to do is to add our repository and our signing key:

sudo wget "https://packages.millistream.com/apt/sources.list.d/stretch.list" -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/millistream.list
wget -q "https://packages.millistream.com/D2FCCE35.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update

Or if you are upgrading from a previous version of Debian you can simply open /etc/apt/sources.list.d/millistream.list in a text editor of your choice and change the distribution name to “stretch” so that it matches this content:

deb https://packages.millistream.com/apt stretch main
deb-src https://packages.millistream.com/apt stretch main

After which you can fetch the new binaries with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Preparing for the upcoming release of Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) due to release on 2017-04-13 we have updated our DEB repository with compatible versions of all our software products.

For fresh installs all you have to do is to add our repository and our signing key:

sudo wget "https://packages.millistream.com/apt/sources.list.d/zesty.list" -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/millistream.list
wget -q "https://packages.millistream.com/D2FCCE35.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update

Or if you are upgrading from a previous version of Ubuntu you can simply re-enable the repository (the upgrade process in Ubuntu/Debian disables all external repositories) and fetch the new binaries:

sudo wget "https://packages.millistream.com/apt/sources.list.d/zesty.list" -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/millistream.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade