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                         <h3>June ???, 2007 - Version 1.34.1</h3>
 
-                        <h4>Updated Libraries</h4>
-
-                        <ul>
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "doc/html/hash.html">Functional/Hash
-                            Library</a></span>
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Avoid an incorrect (but normally useful)
-                              warning about 64-bit incompatibility
-                              in Visual C++.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/python/index.html">Python
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Add missing <code>eval</code> function.</li>
-                              <li>Update "Embedding" chapter in the
-                                  <a href="libs/python/doc/tutorial/index.html">
-                                    tutorial.</a>
-                              </li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "doc/html/xpressive.html">Xpressive
-                          Library</a>:</span>
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Fix for bug <a href=
-                              "http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1035">
-                              #1035</a>: <code>regex_error</code> exception
-                              when quantifying some non-capturing groups.
-                              </li>
-                              <li>Fix for bug <a href=
-                              "http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1026">
-                              #1026</a>: <code>regex_token_iterator</code>
-                              crashes.
-                              </li>
-                              <li>Fix compilation problem on GCC 4.2.
-                              </li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-                        </ul>
-
-                        <h3>May 12, 2007 - Version 1.34.0</h3>
-
-                        <h4>New Libraries</h4>
-
-                        <ul>
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "doc/html/foreach.html">Foreach Library</a>:</span>
-                          <tt>BOOST_FOREACH</tt> macro for easily iterating
-                          over the elements of a sequence, from Eric
-                          Niebler.</li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "libs/statechart/doc/index.html">Statechart 
-                          Library</a>:</span> Arbitrarily complex finite state
-                          machines can be implemented in easily readable and
-                          maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "libs/tr1/index.html">TR1 Library</a>:</span> An
-                          implementation of the C++ Technical Report on
-                          Standard Library Extensions, from John Maddock.
-                          This library does not itself implement the TR1
-                          components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will
-                          include your standard library's TR1 implementation
-                          (if it has one), otherwise it will include the
-                          Boost Library equivalents, and import them into
-                          namespace <code>std::tr1</code>. Highlights
-                          include: Reference Wrappers, Smart Pointers,
-                          result_of, Function Object Binders, Polymorphic
-                          function wrappers, Type Traits, Random Number
-                          Generators and Distributions, Tuples, Fixed Size
-                          Array, Hash Function Objects, Regular Expressions,
-                          and Complex Number Additional Algorithms.</li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "doc/html/typeof.html">Typeof 
-                          Library</a>:</span> Typeof operator emulation, 
-                          from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "doc/html/xpressive.html">Xpressive
-                          Library</a>:</span> Regular expressions that can be
-                          written as strings or as expression templates, and
-                          that can refer to each other and themselves
-                          recursively with the power of context-free
-                          grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
-                        </ul>
-
-                        <h4>Updated Libraries</h4>
-
-                        <ul>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/assign/index.html">Assign
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Support for
-                              <code>ptr_map&lt;key,T&gt;</code> via the new
-                              function <code>ptr_map_insert()</code></li>
-
-                              <li>Support for initialization of <a href=
-                              "libs/ptr_container/index.html">Pointer
-                              Containers</a> when the containers hold
-                              pointers to an abstract base class.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "doc/html/date_time.html">Date_time library</a>:</span>
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Support for new US/Canada timezone rules and
-                                  other bug fixes.  See 
-                                  <a href="doc/hmtl/date_time/details.html#changes">Change History</a>
-                                  for details.
-                              </li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm">Filesystem
-                            Library</a>:</span> Major upgrade in preparation
-                            for submission to the C++ Standards Committee for
-                            TR2. Changes include:
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html#Internationalization">
-                              Internationalization</a>, provided by class
-                              templates <i>basic_path</i>,
-                              <i>basic_filesystem_error</i>,
-                              <i>basic_directory_iterator</i>, and
-                              <i>basic_directory_entry</i>.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html#Simplification">Simplification</a>
-                              of the path interface by eliminating special
-                              constructors to identify native formats.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html#Rationalization">
-                              Rationalization</a> of predicate function
-                              design, including the addition of several new
-                              functions.</li>
-
-                              <li>Clearer specification by reference to
-                              <a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/design.htm#POSIX-01">POSIX</a>,
-                              the ISO/IEEE Single Unix Standard, with
-                              provisions for Windows and other operating
-                              systems.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html#Preservation">Preservation</a>
-                              of existing user code whenever possible.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/i18n.html#More_efficient">More
-                              efficient</a> directory iteration.</li>
-
-                              <li>Addition of a <a href=
-                              "libs/filesystem/doc/tr2_proposal.html#Class-template-basic_recursive_directory_iterator">
-                              recursive directory iterator</a>.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "libs/function/index.html">Function
-                          Library</a>:</span> Boost.Function now implements a
-                          small buffer optimization, which can drastically
-                          improve the performance when copying or
-                          constructing Boost.Function objects storing small
-                          function objects. For instance,
-                          <code>bind(&amp;X:foo, &amp;x, _1, _2)</code>
-                          requires no heap allocation when placed into a
-                          Boost.Function object.</li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/functional/hash/index.html">Functional/Hash
-                            Library</a></span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Use declarations for standard classes, so
-                              that the library doesn't need to include all of
-                              their headers</li>
-
-                              <li>Deprecated the
-                              <tt>&lt;boost/functional/hash/*.hpp&gt;</tt>
-                              headers.</li>
-
-                              <li>Add support for the
-                              <tt>BOOST_HASH_NO_EXTENSIONS</tt> macro, which
-                              disables the extensions to TR1</li>
-
-                              <li>Minor improvements to the hash functions
-                              for floating point numbers.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/graph/doc/index.html">Graph
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/maximum_matching.html"><tt>edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching</tt></a>,
-                              from Aaron Windsor.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/lengauer_tarjan_dominator.htm">
-                              <tt>lengauer_tarjan_dominator_tree</tt></a>,
-                              from JongSoo Park.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/compressed_sparse_row.html"><tt>
-                              compressed_sparse_row_graph</tt></a>, from
-                              Jeremiah Willcock and Douglas Gregor of Indiana
-                              University.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/sorted_erdos_renyi_gen.html"><tt>sorted_erdos_renyi_iterator</tt></a>,
-                              from Jeremiah Willcock of Indiana
-                              University.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/biconnected_components.html"><tt>
-                              biconnected_components</tt></a> now supports a
-                              visitor and named parameters, from Janusz
-                              Piwowarski.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/adjacency_matrix.html"><tt>adjacency_matrix</tt></a>
-                              now models the <a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/BidirectionalGraph.html">Bidirectional
-                              Graph</a> concept.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/dijkstra_shortest_paths.html"><tt>
-                              dijkstra_shortest_paths</tt></a> now calls
-                              <tt>vis.initialize_vertex</tt> for each vertex
-                              during initialization.</li>
-
-			      <li><a
-			      href="libs/graph/doc/bellman_ford_shortest.html"><tt>bellman_ford_shortest_paths</tt></a>:
-			      fixed a bug where certain negative
-			      cycles were not correctly detected.</li>
-
-			      <li><b>Note:</b> the name of the
-			      compiled library for the <a
-			      href="libs/graph/doc/read_graphviz.html">GraphViz
-			      reader</a> has changed to
-			      <code>boost_graph</code> (from
-			      <code>bgl-viz</code>) to match Boost
-			      conventions.</li>
-
-                              <li>See the <a href=
-                              "libs/graph/doc/history.html#1.34.1">complete
-                              revision history</a> for more information.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                          "libs/multi_array/index.html">MultiArray
-                          Library</a>:</span> Boost.MultiArray now by default
-                          provides range-checking for
-                          <code>operator[]</code>. Range checking can be
-                          disabled by defining the macro
-                          <code>BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS</code> before including
-                          <tt>multi_array.hpp</tt>. A bug in
-                          <code>multi_array::resize()</code> related
-                          to storage orders was fixed.</li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/multi_index/doc/index.html">Multi-index
-                            Containers Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>New <a href=
-                              "libs/multi_index/doc/tutorial/indices.html#rnd_indices">
-                              random access indices</a>.</li>
-
-                              <li>Non key-based indices feature new <a href=
-                              "libs/multi_index/doc/tutorial/indices.html#rearrange">
-                              rearrange facilities</a>.</li>
-
-                              <li>This version also includes a number of
-                              optimizations and usage improvements. For a
-                              complete list of changes, see the library
-                              <a href=
-                              "libs/multi_index/doc/release_notes.html#boost_1_34">
-                              release notes</a>.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/optional/index.html">Optional Library</a>:</span>
-                            
-                            <ul>
-                            <li><code>boost::none_t and boost::none</code> now added to Optional's documentation</li>
-                            <li>Relational operators now directly support arguments of type <code>'T'</code> and <code>'none_t'</code></li>
-                            <li>operator->() now also works with reference types.</li>
-                            <li>Helper functions <code>make_optional(val), make_optional(cond,val) and
-                            get_optional_value_or(opt,alternative_value)</code> added.</li>
-                            <li>Constructor taking a boolean condition (as well as a value) added.</li>
-                            <li>Member function <code>get_value_or(alternative_value)</code> added.</li>
-                            <li>Incompatbility bug with mpl::apply&lt;&gt; fixed.</li>
-                            <li>Converting assignment bug with uninitialized lvalues fixed.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-                          
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/parameter/index.html">Parameter
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Every ArgumentPack is now a valid <a href=
-                              "libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/forward-sequence.html">MPL
-                              Forward Sequence.</a></li>
-
-                              <li>Support for unnamed arguments (those whose
-                              keyword is deduced from their types) is
-                              added.</li>
-
-                              <li>Support for named and unnamed template
-                              arguments is added.</li>
-
-                              <li>New overload generation macros solve the
-                              <a href=
-                              "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm">
-                              forwarding problem</a> directly.</li>
-
-                              <li>See also the Python library changes,
-                              below.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/ptr_container/index.html">Pointer Container
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Support for serialization via <a href=
-                              "libs/serialization/index.html">Boost.Serialization.</a></li>
-
-                              <li>Exceptions can be disabled by defining the
-                              macro BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_EXCEPTIONS before
-                              including any header. This macro is defined by
-                              default if BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined.</li>
-
-                              <li>Additional
-                              <code>std::auto_ptr&lt;T&gt;</code> overloads
-                              added s.t. one can also pass
-                              <code>std::auto_ptr&lt;T&gt;</code> instead of
-                              only <code>T*</code> arguments to member
-                              functions.</li>
-
-                              <li><code>transfer()</code> now has weaker
-                              requirements s.t. one can transfer objects from
-                              <code>ptr_container&lt;Derived&gt;</code> to
-                              <code>ptr_container&lt;Base&gt;</code>,</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/python/index.html">Python
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Boost.Python now automatically appends C++
-                              signatures to docstrings. The new <a href=
-                              "libs/python/doc/v2/docstring_options.html"><code>
-                              docstring_options.hpp</code></a> header is
-                              available to control the content of
-                              docstrings.</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/python/doc/v2/stl_iterator.html#stl_input_iterator-spec">
-                              <code>stl_input_iterator</code></a>, for
-                              turning a Python iterable object into an STL
-                              input iterator, from Eric Niebler.</li>
-
-                              <li>Support for <code>void*</code> conversions
-                              is added.</li>
-
-                              <li>Integrated support for wrapping C++
-                              functions built with the parameter library;
-                              keyword names are automatically known to
-                              docsstrings.</li>
-
-                              <li>Enhancements to the API for better embedding support
-                              (<code>boost::python::import()</code>,
-                              <code>boost::python::exec()</code>,
-                              and <code>boost::python::exec_file()</code>).</li>
-                              
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                      <li><span class="library"><a href=
-                      "doc/html/signals.html">Signals Library</a>:</span>
-                      More improvements to signal invocation performance from
-                      Robert Zeh.</li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm">Smart
-                            Pointers Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#allocator_constructor">
-                              Allocator support</a> as proposed in <a href=
-                              "http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1851.pdf">
-                              N1851</a> (162 Kb PDF).</li>
-
-                              <li><a href=
-                              "libs/smart_ptr/pointer_cast.html">
-                              <code>pointer_cast</code></a> and <a href=
-                              "libs/smart_ptr/pointer_to_other.html">
-                              <code>pointer_to_other</code></a> utilities to
-                              allow pointer-independent code, from Ion
-                              Gaztanaga.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href="libs/algorithm/string/index.html">
-                            String Algorithm Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                                <li><code>lexicographical_compare</code></li>
-                                <li><code>join</code></li>
-                                <li>
-                                    New comparison predicates <code>is_less</code>, <code>is_not_greater</code>.
-                                </li>
-                                <li>
-                                    Negative indexes support (like Perl) in various algorihtms
-                                    (<code>*_head/tail</code>, <code>*_nth</code>).
-                                </li>                                        
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>  
-                          <li>
-                            <span class="library"><a href=
-                            "libs/wave/index.html">Wave
-                            Library</a>:</span>
-
-                            <ul>
-                              <li>Wave now correctly recognizes pp-number
-                              tokens as mandated by the C++ Standard, which
-                              are converted to C++ tokens right before they
-                              are returned from the library.</li>
-
-                              <li>Several new preprocessing hooks have been
-                              added. For a complete description please refer
-                              to the related documentation page: <a href=
-                              "libs/wave/doc/class_reference_ctxpolicy.html">The
-                              Context Policy</a>.</li>
-
-                              <li>Shared library (dll) support has been added
-                              for the generated Wave libraries.</li>
-
-                              <li>The overall error handling has been
-                              improved. It is now possible to recover and
-                              continue after an error or a warning was
-                              issued.</li>
-
-                              <li>Support for optional comment and/or full
-                              whitespace preservation in the generated output
-                              stream has been added.</li>
-
-                              <li>The Wave library now performs automatic 
-                              include guard detection to avoid accessing header 
-                              files more than once, if appropriate. </li>
-                              
-                              <li>Full interactive mode has been added to the Wave 
-                              tool. Now the Wave tool can be used just like Python 
-                              or Perl for instance to interactively try out your 
-                              BOOST_PP macros. Additionally it is now possible to 
-                              load and save the current state of an interactive session 
-                              (macro tables et.al.).</li>
-
-                              <li>The overall performance has been improved by upto 
-                              40-60%, depending on the concrete files to process. </li>
-
-                              <li>Support for new pragmas has been added allowing to 
-                               control certain library features from inside the 
-                               preprocessed sources (partial output redirection, 
-                               control of generated whitespace and #line directives).</li>
-
-                              <li>Optional support for #pragma message &quot;...&quot; 
-                               has been added. </li>
-                               
-                              <li>This version also includes a number of bug
-                              fixes and usage improvements. For a complete
-                              list of changes, see the libraries <a href=
-                              "libs/wave/ChangeLog">change log</a>.</li>
-                            </ul>
-                          </li>
-                        </ul>
-
+                        <p>This is a bug fix release addressing many problems with the 1.34.0 release.
+                        It is a recommended upgrade for all users of Boost 1.34.0. For a complete list of fixes see
+                        <a href="http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=Boost+1.34.1">Boost Trac</a>.</p>
+                        
                         <h4>Supported Compilers</h4>
 
+                        <p>New in this release is improved support for
+                        the IBM XL C/C++ compiler.</p>
+                        
                         <p>Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and
                         platforms. Since Boost libraries rely on modern C++
                         features not available in all compilers, not all
-                        Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The
+                        Boost libraries will work with every compiler.
+                        New in this release The
                         following compilers and platforms have been
                         extensively tested with Boost, although many other
                         compilers and platforms will work as well. For more
@@ -723,10 +216,13 @@
                         
                         <p>A great number of people contributed their time
                         and expertise to make this release possible. Special
-                        thanks go to Vladimir Prus for making Boost.Build version 2
-                        a reality, David Abrahams for authoring a new Getting
-                        Started guide, Rene Rivera for general build and installation support
-                        and Greg D. for answering countless questions.</p>
+                        thanks go to Kim Barrett consolidating Boost.Iostreams changes
+                        from various branches and Rene Rivera for general build and installation
+                        support.</p>
+
+                        <h3>May 12, 2007 - Version 1.34.0</h3>
+
+
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