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                          <tt>BOOST_FOREACH</tt> macro for easily iterating
                          over the elements of a sequence, from Eric
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                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
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                          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=
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                          Library</a>:</span> Typeof operator emulation, 
                          from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>

                          <li><span class="library"><a href=
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                          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>
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                          requires no heap allocation when placed into a
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                              their headers</li>

                              <li>Deprecated the
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                              headers.</li>

                              <li>Add support for the
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                              disables the extensions to TR1</li>

                              <li>Minor improvements to the hash functions
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                            <ul>
                              <li><a href=
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                              from Aaron Windsor.</li>

                              <li><a href=
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                              <tt>lengauer_tarjan_dominator_tree</tt></a>,
                              from JongSoo Park.</li>

                              <li><a href=
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                              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=
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                              now models the <a href=
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                              Graph</a> concept.</li>

                              <li><a href=
                              "libs/graph/doc/dijkstra_shortest_paths.html"><tt>
                              dijkstra_shortest_paths</tt></a> now calls
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                              during initialization.</li>

			      <li><b>Note:</b> the name of the
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			      reader</a> has changed to
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			      <code>bgl-viz</code>) to match Boost
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                              <li>See the <a href=
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                              revision history</a> for more information.</li>
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                          <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=
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                            Containers Library</a>:</span>

                            <ul>
                              <li>New <a href=
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                              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=
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                              release notes</a>.</li>
                            </ul>
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                            <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=
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                              <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>
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                              <li>Support for serialization via <a href=
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                              <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
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                              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>
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                              input iterator, from Eric Niebler.</li>

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                              is added.</li>

                              <li>Integrated support for wrapping C++
                              functions built with the parameter library;
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                              docsstrings.</li>
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                              N1851</a> (162 Kb PDF).</li>

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                              <code>pointer_to_other</code></a> utilities to
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                                <li>
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                                    Negative indexes support (like Perl) in various algorihtms
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                              <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>
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                        </ul>

                        <h4>Supported Compilers</h4>

                        <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
                        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 <a href=
                        "http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/index_release.html">regression
                        test results</a>.</p>

                        <ul>
                          <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/">Apple
                          GCC</a> 4.0.1 on Mac OS X.</li>

                          <li><a href=
                          "http://www.borland.com/us/products/cbuilder/">Borland
                          C++</a> 5.8.2 on Windows.</li>

                          <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GNU C++</a>
                            <ul>
                              <li>
                                3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x on Linux
                              </li>
                              <li>
                                4.1.x on Solaris
                              </li>
                              <li>
                                3.4.x on Windows
                              </li>
                            </ul>
                          </li>

                          <li><a href="http://h30097.www3.hp.com/cplus/">HP
                          aC++ A.06.14</a>.</li>

                          <li><a href=
                          "http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/index.htm">
                          Intel C++</a> 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux.</li>

                          <li><a href="http://www.metrowerks.com/">Metrowerks
                          CodeWarrior</a> 9.4 on Windows.</li>

                          <li><a href=
                          "http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/">Microsoft
                          Visual C++</a> 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
                          <code>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE</code>.</li>

                          <li><a href="http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/compilers_index.html">
                          Sun Studio 11</a>
                          on Solaris.</li>
                          
                        </ul>

                        <h4>Acknowledgements</h4>

                        <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 and Greg D. for answering
                        countless questions.</p>
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