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  • Mohammad's Q4 2023 Update
    Recent work on Boost.Beast and Boost.PropertyTree is described, covering issue triage, associator specialization, replacement of beast::bind_front_handler with asio::prepend, removal of dead code, and preparing PropertyTree for Boost 1.84.
    Link #Beast
  • Ruben's January update: presenting Boost.MySQL's new pool!
    Boost.MySQL's experimental connection pool is added in Boost 1.85, handling reconnections, health checks, and session cleanup via reusable connections. Boost.Redis is released, network code is refactored to sans‑io state machines, and client‑side query formatting is planned.
    Link #Redis
  • Joaquín's Update on Boost.Unordered Evolution
    Bulk visitation was added to concurrent_flat_map/set, boosting speed ~40%. Unneeded using declarations were removed, README refreshed, and Boost.Unordered 1.84 released. Perfect‑hash and latch‑free techniques were explored for future releases.
    Link #Unordered
  • Unlocking Success: Spencer's Boost Site Updates
    The site was prepared for launch by focusing on front‑end, standardizing styles, making it mobile‑ready, updating content sections, redesigning Learn with new illustrations, and adding dynamic elements; further refinements are planned.
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  • Ruben's BoostServer Tech Update
    Q3 2023 progress on BoostServerTech added a project proposal, a React/C++ chat prototype, AWS container deployment, authentication and MySQL support. Work covered Boost.Cobalt review, Boost.MySQL 1.83 with session reset, and docs updates.
    Link #MySQL
  • Krystian's MrDocs Project
    During Q3 MrDocs was progressed toward replacing Doxygen/Docca in Boost.URL, adding dependency extraction, URL‑safe symbol names, pattern‑based filtering, @ref/@copydoc lookup, clang patches for template handling, and AST memory optimizations.
    Link #URL
  • Dmitry's JSON's Improvements
    Boost.JSON was updated with error handling propagated to the back‑end optional/variant traits, a parse_into function for direct parsing that can double speed, variant conversion via event replay, and a constructor fix treating initializer_lists as copies.
    Link #JSON
  • Mohammad's Boost.Asio
    https://cppalliance.org/q3_update/2023/10/27/MohammadsQ3Update.html
    Link #Asio
  • Matt's Charconv and Decimal Update
    The charconv library has been completed, received endorsement, and is awaiting formal review, with usage instructions provided. The decimal library, a ground‑up IEEE‑754‑2019 implementation for C++14, is in early development, aiming for full standard library and Boost.Math compatibility.
    Link #Decimal

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