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  • Alan's Q2 Update 2024
    The update details progress on MrDocs tool, its features, CI, integration with Boost libraries, Boost.URL, Boost Release Tools, Boost website, and C++ GitHub Actions, including new features, bug fixes, and upcoming plans.
    Link #URL
  • Kenneth's Q2 2024 Update
    During Q2 2024, work focused on the Boost.io website: onboarding to the repo, improving navigation and redirects, adding uv to speed CI builds, enhancing documentation handling, and deepening Django/web development skills for future updates.
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  • Ruben's Q2 update
    C++20 modules for Boost were evaluated, revealing limited compiler support and high integration effort, causing the community to delay adoption. A Boost.Asio coroutine talk was presented, and Boost.MySQL added range formatting and pipeline request support.
    Link #Asio
  • Mohammad's Q2 2024 Update
    Deprecation of beast::ssl_stream and beast::flat_stream, recommending asio::ssl::stream. Coroutine examples are simplified using asio::deferred. New fuzzing targets added, a Boost.Http.IO coroutine client example added, and Boost‑Gecko received a learn index.
    Link #Beast
  • Sam's Q2 2024 Update
    The update outlines work on Boost infrastructure: CDN migration, Fastly VCL tuning, OAuth, S3 uploads, release tools, Mailman3 fixes, wowbagger disk recovery, CI improvements for Jenkins, LLVM CI discussions, GHA VM images, cpp.al blog rendering, Drone CI updates.
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  • Dmitry's Q2 2024 Update
    Direct parsing, extended serialisation and try_ accessors with source_location are now supported by Boost.JSON; a temporary proxy conversion is pending. Docs are generated by Docca using Jinja, and staging‑prefix installs are supported by Boost.Build.
    Link #JSON
  • Joaquín's Q2 2024 Update
    Boost.Unordered open‑addressing metrics were added, CI fixes applied, shared‑memory tested, a perfect‑hashing talk given, Boost promoted, the new website managed, proposals reviewed and an article on Boost’s WG21 role written.
    Link #Unordered
  • Matt's Q2 2024 Update
    Work on Boost libraries is summarized: a Decimal library beta with fast types and performance profiling; CI expansion and review preparation for Multi; bug fixes and fuzzing enhancements in Charconv; and a new ODEint macro to reduce dependencies.
    Link #Decimal

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