13.07.22
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Docs V2 Released
We’re proud to share our new documentation has been moved to a public beta. This represents a significant leap in the quantity and quality of the documentation for how to build your strategy. The documentation took roughly 1.5 man-years of work to write! It was the full time effort of Derek Melchin and part-time for […]
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11.03.21
Lexie
Report Generator Improvements, .Net Core Migration – Release Notes v10575-v10864
This release was another big one in moving our system over to .Net Core format to grant you access to the newest and best tools that have been added to C#. Also included in this release are changes to our report generator, now any report you run on a backtest will include an estimated capacity […]
03.02.21 Lexie
.Net Core Migration, Github Actions CI, New Python Packages – Release Notes v10339-v10574
This release is a big update for LEAN, we’re marching towards .NET Core support with the migration of our projects to .NET Core format. We’re still a few weeks away from being ready but we’re optimistic Core will bring a speed up and better cross-platform compatibility. We’ve integrated with the new Github Actions CI system […]
20.01.21 Lexie
New Indicators, Speed and Performance Improvements – Release Notes v9993-v10335
We rounded out 2020 continuing our focus on speed, stability, and feature-completeness as we added more indicators and debugged some tricky option-universe selection edge cases. We sped up the regression test-suite and welcomed several new open-source contributors! Special thanks to Cnaccio, aarjaneiro, aricooperman,and mathpaquette. QuantConnect is an open-source platform. Join us as we break open […]
24.11.20 Lexie
Interactive Brokers Currency Improvements, New Notebook API Support, Options Backtesting Enhancements – Release Notes v9464-v9760
LEAN v9464-v9760 unlocks key live trading functionality for accounts with non-USD base currencies, to better serve our global clients. We’ve streamlined harnessing the QuantConnect API in the Jupyter Research environment to analyze backtests and projects with ease. We made improved options backtesting for better out-of-the-money assignment messaging. Features OptionChain and OptionContract improvements (Github | Docker) […]
05.10.20 Lexie
Autocomplete Python Stubs CI, Binance Exchange Integration, LEAN Speed Improvement – LEAN Release Notes v9194-v9449
In the last 2 weeks the QuantConnect team has been focused on stability and bug fixes. Diving deep into some of the long lingering issues and publishing fixes for the along with additional regression tests to lock in that stability. We also surpassed 10,000 unit tests giving the platform a rock solid foundation for expansion! […]
01.09.20 Lexie
Python Auto-complete, and with Integrated Docker-Local IDE Support with VSCode, PyCharm and Visual Studio. Release notes v9842-v9185
In this release of updates, we have made substantial changes to improve our local development experience through deep integration of the LEAN Docker containers, along with publishing a research docker container for running your LEAN Research Notebooks locally. These docker containers are completely integrated into VSCode, PyCharm, and Visual Studio allowing you to run backtests […]
08.08.17
Stefano Raggi
Senior Engineer
R-Support, Visual Studio Integration, Python Updates – LEAN Release Notes v2.4.0.1
This release adds R-support to LEAN; allowing you to run R-code from your LEAN C# algorithms. This makes the R statistics libraries available for use in QuantConnect. Additionally a community member contributed a plugin for Visual Studio which uses the QuantConnect API to perform file editing tasks and deploy backtests. Additionally this release extends Python […]
04.05.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Python Library Support – LEAN Release Notes v2.4.0.0
This release adds full python support to enable using common python libraries in your algorithm.It is implemented using the PythonNet library which allows importing C# classes into python and vice versa. The new python algorithms are fully supported in local and cloud trading. There are some minor API adjustments to use the new library but […]
16.03.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Free Streaming Live Data with IEX – LEAN Release Notes v2.3.0.3
This release adds the IEXDataQueueHandler allowing LEAN users to stream free US equity trades to their strategy; along with numerous bug fixes to the OANDA and FXCM brokerage implementations. Additional regression algorithms were added to automate testing of daily data algorithms. The Interactive Brokers connection logic was also made more intelligent to fail quickly when […]