Version 1.38.0

February 8th, 2009 12:00 GMT

Documentation

New Libraries

• Flyweight:
  • Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
• ScopeExit:
  • Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov.
• Swap:
  • Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.

Updated Libraries

• Accumulators:
  • Add rolling_sum, rolling_count and rolling_mean accumulators.
• Any:
  • Use a by-value argument for operator= (#2311).
• Asio:
  • Improved compatibility with some Windows firewall software.
  • Ensured arguments to windows::overlapped_ptr::complete() are correctly passed to the completion handler (#2614).
  • Fixed a link problem and multicast failure on QNX (#2504, #2530).
  • Fixed a compile error in SSL support on MinGW / g++ 3.4.5.
  • Drop back to using a pipe for notification if eventfd is not available at runtime on Linux (#2683).
  • Various minor bug and documentation fixes (#2534, #2541, #2607, #2617, #2619)
• Config:
  • Add new macros BOOST_NO_STD_UNORDERED and BOOST_NO_INITIALIZER_LISTS.
  • Added Codegear compiler support.
  • Added Dragonfly to the BSD family of configs.
  • Updated MSVC's binary ABI settings to match compiler default when doing 64-bit builds.
  • Recognise latest compilers from MS and Intel.
• Date_Time:
  • Added support for formatting and reading time durations longer than 24 hours with new formatter: %0.
  • Removed the testfrmwk.hpp file from the public include directory.
  • Fixed several bugs and compile errors.
  • For full details see the change history
• Exception:
  • Improved and more customizable diagnostic_information output.
• Filesystem:
  • Fix native(name) test failures on POSIX-like systems.
  • Several bugfixes (#2543, #2224, #2531, #1840, #2542).
• Graph:
  • Added a new algorithms for Travelling Salesman Problem approximation (metric_tsp_approx) and resource-constrained Shortest Paths (r_c_shortest_paths).
  • Support for named vertices in adjacency_list.
  • A number of bugfixes ( #416, #1622, #1700, #2209, #2392, #2460, and #2550)
• Hash:
  • boost/functional/detail/container_fwd.hpp has been moved to boost/detail/container_fwd.hpp. The current location is deprecated.
  • For more detail, see the library changelog.
• Interprocess:
  • Updated documentation to show rvalue-references functions instead of emulation functions.
  • More non-copyable classes are now movable.
  • Move-constructor and assignments now leave moved object in default-constructed state instead of just swapping contents.
  • Several bugfixes (#2391, #2431, #1390, #2570, #2528).
• Intrusive:
  • New treap-based containers: treap, treap_set, treap_multiset.
  • Corrected compilation bug for Windows-based 64 bit compilers.
  • Corrected exception-safety bugs in container constructors.
  • Updated documentation to show rvalue-references functions instead of emulation functions.
• Lexical Cast:
  • Changed to work without RTTI when BOOST_NO_TYPEID is defined (#1220).
• Math:
  • Added Johan Råde's optimised floating point classification routines.
  • Fixed code so that it compiles in GCC's -pedantic mode (bug report #1451).
• Multi-index Containers: Some redundant type definitions have been deprecated. Consult the library release notes for further information.
• Proto:
  • Fix problem with SFINAE of binary operators (Bug 2407).
  • Fix proto::call transform for callable transforms with >3 arguments.
  • result_of::value changed behavior for array-by-value terminals.
  • unpack_expr requires only Forward Sequences rather than Random Access Sequences.
  • Deprecate legacy undocumented BOOST_PROTO_DEFINE_(VARARG_)FUNCTION_TEMPLATE macros.
  • Add BOOST_PROTO_REPEAT and BOOST_PROTO_LOCAL_ITERATE macros to help with repetitive code generation
  • Support for nullary expressions with tag types other than proto::tag::terminal
  • Allow 0- and 1-argument variants of proto::or_ and proto::and_
• Regex:
  • Breaking change: empty expressions, and empty alternatives are now allowed when using the Perl regular expression syntax. This change has been added for Perl compatibility, when the new syntax_option_type no_empty_expressions is set then the old behaviour is preserved and empty expressions are prohibited. This is issue #1081.
  • Added support for Perl style ${n} expressions in format strings (issue #2556).
  • Added support for accessing the location of sub-expressions within the regular expression string (issue #2269).
  • Fixed compiler compatibility issues #2244, #2514, and #2458.
• Thread:
  • No longer catches unhandled exceptions in threads as this debuggers couldn't identify the cause of unhandled exceptions in threads. An unhandled exception will still cause the application to terminate.
• TR1:
  • Added support for the TR1 math functions and the unordered containers.
• Type Traits:
  • Added support for Codegear intrinsics.
  • Minor tweaks to warning suppression and alignment_of code.
• Unordered:
  • Use boost::swap.
  • Use a larger prime number list for selecting the number of buckets.
  • Use aligned storage to store the types.
  • Add support for C++0x initializer lists where they're available.
  • For more detail, see the library changelog.
• Xpressive:
  • basic_regex gets nested syntax_option_flags and value_type typedef, for compatibility with std::basic_regex
  • Ported to Proto v4; Proto v2 at boost/xpressive/proto has been removed.
  • regex_error inherits from boost::exception

Other Changes

• Experimental support for building Boost with CMake has been introduced in this version. For more details see the wiki, Discussion is taking place on the Boost-cmake mailing list.
• Fixed subversion properties for several files. Most notably, unix shell scripts should always have unix line endings, even in the windows packages.

Compilers Tested

Boost's primary test compilers are:

• OS X:
  • GCC 4.0.1 on Intel OS X 10.4.10, 10.5.2
  • GCC 4.0.1 on PowerPC OS X 10.4.9
• Linux:
  • GCC 4.3.2 on Ubuntu Linux.
  • GCC 4.3.3 on Debian "unstable".
• HP-UX:
  • GCC 4.2.1 on HP-UX 64-bit.
  • HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.17 on HP-UX 64-bit.
• Windows:
  • Visual C++ 7.1 SP1, 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 on Windows XP.

Boost's additional test compilers include:

• Linux:
  • GCC 4.1.1, 4.2.1 on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • GCC 4.1.2 on 64-bit Redhat Server 5.1
  • GCC 3.4.3, GCC 4.0.1, GCC 4.2.4 and GCC 4.3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • GCC 4.3.2 with C++0x extensions
  • GCC 4.2.1 on OpenSuSE Linux
  • pgCC 8.0-0a 64-bit target on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • QLogic PathScale(TM) Compiler Suite: Version 3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• OS X:
  • Intel 9.1, 10.0 on OS X 10.4.10
  • Intel 10.1, 11.0 on OS X 10.5.2
• Windows:
  • Visual C++ 9.0 on Vista EE 64-bit.
  • Visual C++ 9.0 express on Vista 32-bit.
  • Visual C++ 9.0 on XP 32-bit.
  • Visual C++ 8.0, using STLport, on XP and Windows Mobile 5.0
  • Visual C++ 7.1, using STLport, on XP
  • Borland 5.9.3
  • Borland 6.1.0
  • Intel C++ 11.0, with a Visual C++ 9.0 backend, on XP 32-bit.
  • Intel C++ 11.0, with a Visual C++ 9.0 backend, on Vista 64-bit.
  • Comeau 4.3.10.1 beta 2, with a Visual C++ 9.0 backend.
  • GCC 3.4.4, on Cygwin
• AIX:
  • IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V10.1.0.0, on AIX Version 5.3.0.40
• FreeBSD:
  • GCC 4.2.1 on FreeBSD 7.
• NetBSD:
  • GCC 4.1.2 on NetBSD 4.0/i386 and NetBSD 4.0/amd64.
• QNX:
  • QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.0 x86
• Solaris:
  • Sun C++ 5.7, 5.8, 5.9 on Solaris 5.10
  • GCC 3.4.6 on Solaris 5.10

Acknowledgements

Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler, Rene Rivera, and Daniel James managed this release. Thanks to Vicente Botet for helping compile these release notes.