Version 1.41.0
November 17th, 2009 17:00 GMT
Documentation
New Libraries
- Property Tree:
- A
tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from
Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.
Updated Libraries
-
DateTime:
-
The default format for time durations is now "
%-%O:%M:%S%F"
instead of "%-%H:%M:%S%F" that was used previously.
In order to retain the old behavior, the format string has to be
specified explicitly during the time IO facet construction (#1861).
-
Gregorian dates now use 32-bit integer type internally on 64-bit
platforms (#3308).
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See the full
changelog for more detail.
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Filesystem:
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Iostreams:
Some old
unreleased developments. There are still several open issues that should
be fixed in the next version.
-
Add a grep filter (#1627).
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Support archives with multiple members (#1896).
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Make
tee work with
input streams (#791).
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Improved filesystem interoperability.
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Several warnings fixed or suppressed (including #1618,
#1875,
#2779).
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Various other fixes (including #1580,
#1671).
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Math:
Substantially improved
the performance of the incomplete gamma function and it's inverse: this
enhances the performance of the gamma, poisson, chi-squared and non-central
chi-squared distributions.
-
Multi-index Containers:
Maintenance
fixes. Consult the library release
notes for further information.
-
Proto:
-
Clean up some MSVC warnings and errors in /Za (disable Microsoft
extensions) mode.
-
Fixes for c++0x mode on various compilers.
-
Python:
Boost.Python
now supports Python 3 (Haoyu Bai's Google Summer of Code project, mentored
by Stefan Seefeld).
-
Regex:
Added support
for many Perl 5.10 syntax elements including named sub-expressions, branch
resets and recursive regular expressions.
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Spirit: This is the
initial official release of the new Spirit V2.1, a completely new library
for parsing, lexing, and output generation. Note: this release is not backwards
compatible with earlier versions. Known issue:
qi::symbol::find
will match a symbol that starts with the string you're searching for. This
will be fixed in the next version.
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System:
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Thread:
-
Support for futures, promises and packaged tasks added
-
boost::thread_specific_ptr is now faster
when there are lots of thread-specific objects
-
Some Boost.Thread facilities are now header-only
-
Unordered:
Major
update:
-
Replaced a lot of the macro based implementation with a cleaner template
based implementation.
-
Reduced memory use.
-
Full details in the
changelog.
-
Utility:
A "const"
issue of
value_initialized
is fixed: Its data()
member function and its conversion operator are replaced by overloads for
const and non-const access (#2548).
-
Wave:
See the changelog
for details.
-
Xpressive:
-
Fix infinite loop with some uses of \Q...\E quotemeta
(#3586).
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Eliminate unreachable code warnings on MSVC
-
Clean up some MSVC warnings and errors in /Za ("disable Microsoft
extensions") mode.
-
Fixes for c++0x mode on various compilers.
Build System
A bug preventing "fat" 32-bit + 64-bit builds on OSX has been fixed.
Boost.CMake moved
The cmake version of boost has moved; the Boost.CMmake release will be separate
and will lag the main release slightly, but will also be capable of producing
patch releases as necessary.
More information on the Boost
CMake wiki page.
Updated Tools
-
Quickbook 1.5:
These
changes require your document to use the
[quickbook 1.5] tag:
-
More intuitive syntax and variable lookup for template calls (#1174,
#2034,
#2036).
-
Image attributes (#1157)
-
Table Ids (#1194)
-
Better handling of whitespace in
section
syntax. (#2712)
Compilers Tested
Boost's primary test compilers are:
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OS X:
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GCC 4.0.1 on Intel Tiger and Leopard.
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GCC 4.0.1 on PowerPC Tiger.
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Linux:
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GCC 4.4.1 on Ubuntu Linux.
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GCC 4.4 on Debian
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Windows:
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Visual C++ 7.1 SP1, 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 on Windows XP.
Boost's additional test compilers include:
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Linux:
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Intel 10.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Intel 10.1 on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Intel 10.1 on Suse Linux on 64 bit Itanium.
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Intel 11.0 on 32 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Intel 11.0 on 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Intel 11.1 on 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Intel 11.1 on 64 bit Linux Redhat 5.1 Server.
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GCC 3.4.3, GCC 4.2.4, GCC 4.3.3 and GCC 4.4.1 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
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GCC 4.3.3 and GCC 4.4.1 with C++0x extensions on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
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GCC 4.3.3 on 64-bit Redhat Server 5.1.
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GCC 4.3.3 on 64 bit Linux.
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GCC 4.3.4 on Debian unstable.
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GCC 4.3.2 on 64 bit Gentoo.
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QLogic PathScale(TM) Compiler Suite: Version 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
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Sun 5.9 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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OS X:
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Intel C++ Compiler 11.1 on Leopard.
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Intel C++ Compiler 10.1, 11.0.
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GCC 4.0.1 on Intel Tiger.
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GCC 4.0.1 on PowerPC Tiger.
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Windows:
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Visual C++ 7.1, 8,0, 9,0 on XP.
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Visual C++ 9.0 on 32-bit Vista.
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Visual C++ 9.0 on AMD 64-bit Vista.
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Visual C++ 9.0 using STLport 5.2 on XP and Windows Mobile 5.0.
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Visual C++ 10.0 beta 1 with a
patch for the program options lib.
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Borland/Codegear C++ 5.9.3, 6.1.3 (2009), 6.2.0 (2010).
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Intel C++ 11.1, with a Visual C++ 9.0 backend, on Vista 32-bit.
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GCC 4.4.1 on Mingw, with and without C++0x extensions.
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AIX:
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IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V10.1.0.0, on AIX Version
5.3.0.40.
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FreeBSD:
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GCC 4.2.1 on FreeBSD 7.0.
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Solaris:
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Sun C++ 5.10 on Solaris 5.10.
Acknowledgements
Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler,
Rene Rivera, and Daniel
James managed this release.
