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We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ - Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be - widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of - applications. The Boost license encourages - both commercial and non-commercial use.

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We aim to establish "existing practice" and - provide reference implementations so that Boost - libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. - Ten Boost libraries are already included in the - C++ - Standards Committee's Library Technical Report ( - - TR1) as a step toward becoming part of a future - C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed for - the upcoming - TR2.

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Getting - started: Boost works - on almost any modern operating system, including UNIX - and Windows variants. Follow the Getting Started Guide - to download and install Boost. Popular Linux and Unix - distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and NetBSD include pre-built - Boost packages. Boost may also already be available - on your organization's internal web - server.

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July 24, 2007 - Version 1.34.1

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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 - Boost Trac.

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New in this release is improved support for - the IBM XL C/C++ compiler.

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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 following compilers and platforms have been - extensively tested with Boost, although many other - compilers and platforms will work as well. For more - information, see the regression - test results.

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Thomas Witt - managed this release.

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A great number of people contributed their time - and expertise to make this release possible. Special - thanks go to Kim Barrett consolidating Boost.Iostreams changes - from various branches and Rene Rivera for general build and installation - support.

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“...one of the most highly regarded and +expertly designed C++ library projects in the world.” — Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, +C++ Coding +Standards

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Welcome to Boost.org!

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Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

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We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. + Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a + broad spectrum of applications. The Boost + license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

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We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference + implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual + standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards + Committee's Library Technical Report ( TR1) + as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost + libraries are proposed for the upcoming TR2.

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Getting started: Boost works on almost any modern operating system, + including UNIX and Windows variants. Follow the Getting Started Guide to download and + install Boost. Popular Linux and Unix distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and NetBSD include pre-built Boost packages. + Boost may also already be available on your organization's internal web + server.

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Background: The Background Information + page has introductory material to help those educating their + organization about Boost.

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Participation

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Although Boost was begun by members of the C++ Standards Committee + Library Working Group, participation has expanded to include thousands of + programmers from the C++ community at large.

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If you are interested in participating in Boost, please join our main + developers mailing list. + Discussions are highly technical, and list members are encouraged to + participate in formal reviews of proposed libraries. There is also a users mailing list, and several project specific lists.

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Both the main Boost developers list and the users list are also + accessible as newsgroups.

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May 14, 2007 - BoostCon'07 starts today

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The long anticipated BoostCon'07 finally starts today. Promising to be the + main face-to-face event for all things Boost, BoostCon'07 opens the door to + your C++ future.

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May 12, 2007 - Version 1.34.0

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  • Foreach + Library: BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating + over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler. +
  • Statechart Library: + Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily + readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber. +
  • TR1 + Library: 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 std::tr1. 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. +
  • Typeof + Library: Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and + Peder Holt. +
  • Xpressive + Library: 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.
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    • Support for initialization of Pointer Containers when the + containers hold pointers to an abstract base class.
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  • Filesystem Library: + Major upgrade in preparation for submission to the C++ Standards + Committee for TR2. Changes include: +
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    • Internationalization, + provided by class templates basic_path, + basic_filesystem_error, basic_directory_iterator, and + basic_directory_entry. +
    • Simplification + of the path interface by eliminating special constructors to identify + native formats. +
    • Rationalization + of predicate function design, including the addition of several new + functions. +
    • Clearer specification by reference to POSIX, the ISO/IEEE + Single Unix Standard, with provisions for Windows and other operating + systems. +
    • Preservation of + existing user code whenever possible. +
    • More + efficient directory iteration. +
    • Addition of a recursive + directory iterator.
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  • Function + Library: 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, bind(&X:foo, &x, _1, _2) requires no + heap allocation when placed into a Boost.Function object. +
  • Functional/Hash + Library +
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    • Deprecated the <boost/functional/hash/*.hpp> + headers. +
    • Add support for the BOOST_HASH_NO_EXTENSIONS macro, which + disables the extensions to TR1 +
    • Minor improvements to the hash functions for floating point + numbers.
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  • Graph + Library: + +
  • MultiArray + Library: Boost.MultiArray now by default provides + range-checking for operator[]. Range checking can be + disabled by defining the macro BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS before + including multi_array.hpp. A bug in + multi_array::resize() related to storage orders was fixed. +
  • Multi-index Containers + Library: + +
  • Optional + Library: +
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    • boost::none_t and boost::none now added to Optional's + documentation +
    • Relational operators now directly support arguments of type + 'T' and 'none_t' +
    • operator->() now also works with reference types. +
    • Helper functions make_optional(val), make_optional(cond,val) + and get_optional_value_or(opt,alternative_value) added. +
    • Constructor taking a boolean condition (as well as a value) added. + +
    • Member function get_value_or(alternative_value) + added. +
    • Incompatbility bug with mpl::apply<> fixed. +
    • Converting assignment bug with uninitialized lvalues fixed. +
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    • Support for unnamed arguments (those whose keyword is deduced from + their types) is added. +
    • Support for named and unnamed template arguments is added. +
    • New overload generation macros solve the forwarding + problem directly. +
    • See also the Python library changes, below.
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    • 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. +
    • Additional std::auto_ptr<T> overloads added + s.t. one can also pass std::auto_ptr<T> instead of + only T* arguments to member functions. +
    • transfer() now has weaker requirements s.t. one can + transfer objects from ptr_container<Derived> to + ptr_container<Base>,
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    • stl_input_iterator, + for turning a Python iterable object into an STL input iterator, from + Eric Niebler. +
    • Support for void* conversions is added. +
    • Integrated support for wrapping C++ functions built with the + parameter library; keyword names are automatically known to + docsstrings. +
    • Enhancements to the API for better embedding support + (boost::python::import(), + boost::python::exec(), and + boost::python::exec_file()).
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  • Signals + Library: More improvements to signal invocation performance + from Robert Zeh. +
  • Smart + Pointers Library: + +
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    • Negative indexes support (like Perl) in various algorihtms + (*_head/tail, *_nth).
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    • Several new preprocessing hooks have been added. For a complete + description please refer to the related documentation page: The Context + Policy. +
    • Shared library (dll) support has been added for the generated Wave + libraries. +
    • The overall error handling has been improved. It is now possible + to recover and continue after an error or a warning was issued. +
    • Support for optional comment and/or full whitespace preservation + in the generated output stream has been added. +
    • The Wave library now performs automatic include guard detection to + avoid accessing header files more than once, if appropriate. +
    • 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.). +
    • The overall performance has been improved by upto 40-60%, + depending on the concrete files to process. +
    • 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). +
    • Optional support for #pragma message "..." has been added. +
    • This version also includes a number of bug fixes and usage + improvements. For a complete list of changes, see the libraries change log.
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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 following compilers + and platforms have been extensively tested with Boost, although many other + compilers and platforms will work as well. For more information, see the + regression test + results.

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  • Borland + C++ 5.8.2 on Windows. +
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  • Intel + C++ 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux. +
  • Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9.4 + on Windows. +
  • Microsoft Visual + C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0, 7.1, 8.0. Note: Boost + does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping with + Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost + headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these + warnings, define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. +
  • Sun + Studio 11 on Solaris.
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Acknowledgements

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Thomas Witt managed this + release.

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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.

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