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  • Added boost/core/snprintf.hpp header with portable definitions of snprintf, vsnprintf and their wchar_t counterparts.
  • Deprecated boost/core/is_same.hpp and boost::core::is_same. The header will be removed in a future release. Users are advised to use Boost.TypeTraits or C++ standard library type traits instead.
  • Marked boost::ref member functions and associated methods with noexcept.
  • Marked boost::swap function with noexcept, depending on whether the type supports a non-throwing swap operation.
  • Added boost::core::launder, a portable implementation of std::launder.
  • Added BOOST_CORE_ALIGNOF, a portable implementation of alignof.
  • Added boost::core::max_align_t, a portable equivalent of std::max_align_t, and boost::core::max_align, the alignment of max_align_t.
  • Added boost::core::memory_resource, a portable equivalent of std::pmr::memory_resource from C++17.
  • Added boost/core/serialization.hpp, a collection of primitives allowing libraries to implement Boost.Serialization support for their types without including a Serialization header and thereby making their libraries depend on Serialization.
  • Added boost::data, an implementation of std::data.
  • Added boost::size, an implementation of std::size.
  • Updated boost::span to use boost::data which adds support for range construction from an std::initializer_list.
  • Added boost::identity, an implementation of std::identity. This facility has been moved from Boost.Functional.
  • empty_value members are now marked as constexpr.
  • Added fclose_deleter, a deleter that calls std::fclose on a pointer to std::FILE.
  • Bit manipulation utilities in boost/core/bit.hpp now explicitly require unsigned integers on input. (#129)
  • bit_width now returns int instead of a value of the input argument type. This follows the resolution of LWG3656.
  • In boost/core/allocator_access.hpp, added detection of construct and destroy members of an allocator.
  • boost/core/alloc_construct.hpp header is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Its functionality was moved to boost/core/allocator_access.hpp. In particular, new methods allocator_construct_n and allocator_destroy_n were added for allocating and destroying arrays.
  • Worked around MSVC bug that failed to compile span in C++17 mode when Boost.Range headers were included. (#105, PR#115)
  • Added support for 128-bit integer types in type_name.
  • In pointer_traits, pointer rebinding now supports C++03 compilers.
  • Added boost::allocator_traits, an implementation of std::allocator_traits.
  • Made boost::pointer_traits SFINAE friendly.
  • boost/iterator.hpp is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The header defines the boost::iterator template, which is equivalent to std::iterator in the <iterator> header. However, since std::iterator is itself deprecated in C++17, users are advised to remove the use of boost::iterator or std::iterator from their code.
  • Added boost::core::verbose_terminate_handler, a utility function intended to be passed to std::set_terminate that prints information about the uncaught exception to stderr.
  • Added a generic implementation to boost/core/cmath.hpp, enabled when BOOST_CORE_USE_GENERIC_CMATH is defined or when the platform does not provide the necessary facilities in <cmath>.
  • Added boost::core::type_name, a utility function that returns the name of a type as a string.
  • Added boost::span, a C++11 implementation of C++20's std::span.
  • boost/core/uncaught_exceptions.hpp has been modified for compatibility with Mac OS 10.4 and older.
  • Added implicit conversion between compatible reference wrappers.
  • Added boost/core/cmath.hpp, a portable implementation of the floating point classification functions from <cmath>.
  • Added boost/core/bit.hpp, a portable implementation of the C++20 standard header <bit>.
  • Fixed BOOST_TEST_EQ, BOOST_TEST_NE for character types under C++20.
  • Revised allocator access utilities (now support VS2013, and no workarounds use allocator_traits.)
  • Implemented the allocator access utilities which provide a replacement for allocator_traits with individual traits and functions for each facility. They support the C++11 allocator model when possible and provide a fallback for C++98 compatibility.
  • Added BOOST_TEST_WITH to Lightweight Test.
  • Added functions alloc_construct, alloc_construct_n, alloc_destroy, and alloc_destroy_n in <boost/core/alloc_construct.hpp> for allocator aware and exception safe construction and destruction of objects and arrays.
  • Added constexpr functions first_scalar in <boost/core/first_scalar.hpp> for obtaining a pointer to the first scalar element of an array. Given a pointer of type T* they return a pointer of type remove_all_extents_t<T>*.
  • Added class template noinit_adaptor in <boost/core/noinit_adaptor.hpp> which is an allocator adaptor that converts any allocator into one whose construct(ptr) performs default initialization via placement new, and whose destroy(ptr) invokes the value_type destructor directly.
  • Added class template default_allocator in <boost/core/default_allocator.hpp>, which can serve as a minimal default allocator that has interface similar to C++20 std::allocator, supports configurations with disabled exceptions and does not have std as an associated namespace. The allocator uses operator new and operator delete for allocation.
  • In <boost/core/uncaught_exceptions.hpp> header, added workarounds for better compatibility with QNX SDP 7.0 when libc++/libc++abi libraries are used.
  • The <boost/detail/sp_typeinfo.hpp> header is now marked as deprecated and will be removed in a future release. <boost/core/typeinfo.hpp> should be used instead.
  • Implemented boost::empty_value, for library authors to conveniently leverage the Empty Base Optimization to store objects of potentially empty types.
  • Implemented boost::quick_exit to provide the C++11 standard library facility std::quick_exit functionality.
  • Reduced the number of statics in Lightweight Test, and employ lighter abort behavior for MSVC compilers upon failure to call boost::report_errors.
  • Updated to_address and pointer_traits to reflect the design adopted for C++20 in P0653R2.
  • Implemented pointer_traits for C++03 and higher, that implements P0653r0.
  • Added BOOST_TEST_GT and BOOST_TEST_GE to Lightweight Test.

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