Version 1.45.0

November 19th, 2010 16:00 GMT

Documentation

Updated Libraries

• Asio:
  • Fixed a problem on kqueue-based platforms where a deadline_timer may never fire if the io_service is running in a background thread (#4568).
  • Fixed a const-correctness issue that prevented valid uses of has_service<> from compiling (#4638).
  • Fixed MinGW cross-compilation (#4491).
  • Removed dependency on deprecated Boost.System functions (#4672).
  • Ensured close()/closesocket() failures are correctly propagated (#4573).
  • Added a check for errors returned by InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount (#4574).
  • Added support for hardware flow control on QNX (#4625).
  • Always use pselect() on HP-UX, if it is available (#4578).
  • Ensured handler arguments are passed as lvalues (#4744).
  • Fixed Windows build when thread support is disabled (#4680).
  • Fixed a Windows-specific problem where deadline_timer objects with expiry times set more than 5 minutes in the future may never expire (#4745).
  • Fixed the resolver backend on BSD platforms so that an empty service name resolves to port number 0, as per the documentation (#4690).
  • Fixed read operations so that they do not accept buffer sequences of type const_buffers_1 (#4746).
  • Redefined Protocol and id to avoid clashing with Objective-C++ keywords (#4191).
  • Fixed a vector reallocation performance issue that can occur when there are many active deadline_timer objects (#4780).
  • Fixed the kqueue backend so that it compiles on NetBSD (#4662).
  • Fixed the socket io_control() implementation on 64-bit Mac OS X and BSD platforms (#4782).
  • Fixed a Windows-specific problem where failures from accept() are incorrectly treated as successes (#4859).
  • Deprecated the separate compilation header <boost/asio/impl/src.cpp> in favour of <boost/asio/impl/src.hpp> (#4560).
• Config:
  • Added new defect macros, BOOST_NO_VARIADIC_MACROS and BOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_LOWEST.
  • Minor fixes (#4670, #4563, #4474, #4508).
• Flyweight:
  • Fixed a hanging problem with intermodule_holder in Win32 platforms related to a Boost.Interprocess issue described at ticket #4606.
  • Removed an internal assertion incompatible with program termination via std::exit.
• Foreach:
  • Fix ambiguitiy by making auto_any constructor explicit.
• Fusion:
  • Added BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_ADT, BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_TPL_ADT, BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_ASSOC_ADT and BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_ASSOC_TPL_ADT.
• Graph:
  • Added Stoer-Wagner min-cut algorithm contributed by Daniel Trebbien.
  • Added implicit graph (implicit_graph) and A* (astar_maze) examples contributed by W. P. McNeill.
  • Added bundled property support for graph properties.
  • Fixed bugs #4556, #4622, #4631, #4715, #4753, #4758 and #4793 plus others not in Trac.
  • Fixed documentation bugs #4731 and #4737.
• Interprocess:
  • Fixed bugs #1080, #3284, #3439, #3448, #3582, #3682, #3829, #3846, #3914, #3947, #3950, #3951, #3985, #4010, #4417, #4019, #4039, #4218, #4230, #4250, #4297, #4350, #4352, #4426, #4516, #4524, #4557, #4606, #4685, #4694.
  • Added support for standard rvalue reference move semantics (tested on GCC 4.5 and VC10).
  • Permissions can be detailed for interprocess named resources.
  • mapped_region::flush initiates disk flushing but does not guarantee it's completed when returns, since it is not portable.
  • FreeBSD and MacOS now use posix semaphores to implement named semaphores and mutex.
• Math:
  • Added inverse gamma distribution and inverse chi_square and scaled inverse chi_square.
  • Added warnings about potential ambiguity with std random library in distribution and function names.
  • Editorial revision of documentation, and added FAQ.
• Meta State Machine:
  • Support for serialization.
  • Possibility to use normal functors (from functor front-end) in eUML.
  • New constructors where substates / submachines can be taken as arguments. This allows passing arguments to the constructor of a submachine.
  • Bugfixes (anonymous transitions)
• MultiArray:
  • Fixes for bugs #3581, #3820, #3989, #4032, plus other bugs not in Trac.
  • Added new examples and test cases.
• Proto:
  • Knock down value of proto::N, fixes bug #4602,
  • Support non-rtti compilers
  • Fix bug with proto::matches, array types and the wildcard pattern.
  • Make Proto work on MSVC with the /clr option
  • Add const-qualified overloads of proto::eval
• Spirit: Spirit V2.4.1, see the 'What's New' section for details.
• TypeTraits:
  • Added new traits add_rvalue_reference, add_lvalue_reference and common_type.
  • Minor fixes to is_signed, is_unsigned and is_virtual_base_of.
• uBLAS:
  • Tickets closed:
    • #4410,
    • #3397,
    • #795,
    • #3514,
  • Mixed types operation are possible and new tests added (like matrix<complex>+matrix<double>),
  • New features:
    • a new size<> operator is available. For example size<1>(A+B) give the number of rows of the sum of matrices A and B,
• Unordered:
  • Fix inserting from iterators which return by copy from operator* in boost::unordered_map and boost::unordered_set.
• Wave:
  • See the Changelog for details.
• Xpressive:
  • xpressive::as handles wide-char sub_match objects, fixes bug #4496

Updated Tools

• Boostbook:
  • Fix syntax highlighter for comments at the end of code blocks.
• Quickbook:
  • Fix command line macros.
  • Nested code snippets.
  • Nested documentation info comments.
  • Revert xml escaping document info, it broke some documentation files (will now be in 1.6).
  • Some other small tweaks. See the change log for more info.

Compilers Tested

Boost's primary test compilers are:

• Linux:
  • GCC: 3.4.6, 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.4.5, 4.5.1.
  • GCC, C++0x mode: 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.5.0.
  • Intel: 10.1, 11.0, 11.1
  • Pathscale: 3.2.
• OS X:
  • GCC: 4.0.1, 4.2.1, 4.4
  • GCC, C++0x mode: 4.4.
  • Intel: 11.1
• Windows:
  • Visual C++: 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0.
  • GCC, mingw: 4.3.3.
• FreeBSD:
  • GCC: 4.2.1, 32 bit.
  • GCC: 4.2.1, 64 bit.

Boost's additional test compilers include:

• Linux:
  • GCC: 3.4.6, 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.4.5, 4.5.0, 4.6.0 (dev version).
  • GCC, C++0x mode: 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.5.0.
  • Intel: 10.1, 11.0, 11.1.
  • pgCC 10.1.
  • PathScale: 3.2.
  • Clang from subversion.
• OS X:
  • Intel C++ Compiler: 10.1, 11.0, 11.1.
  • GCC: 4.0.1, 4.2.1, 4.4.4
  • GCC, C++0x mode: 4.4.4
  • Clang from subversion.
• Windows:
  • Borland: 5.9.3, 6.1.3 (2009), 6.2.1 (2010), 6.3.0
  • GCC, mingw: 4.3.3, 4.4.5, 4.5.1
  • GCC, mingw, C++0x mode: 4.5.1
  • Visual C++: 7.1, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• AIX:
  • IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition, V11.1.0.0.
• FreeBSD:
  • GCC 4.2.1, 64 bit.
• Solaris:
  • Sun C++: 5.10.

Acknowledgements

Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler, Rene Rivera, Daniel James and Vladimir Prus managed this release.