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  • Krystian's Q4 2023 Update
    During Q4, enhancements were made to MrDocs to render overload sets, support friend declarations, deduction guides, enumerators, and to replace prior TypeInfo variants with a unified SymbolName type. clang work progressed on C++ conformance fixes and a patch to improve dependent name lookup diagnostics.
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  • Dmitry's Q4 2023 Update
    In Q4 2023 the JSON library’s direct parsing was completed and released in Boost 1.84.0, after which work shifted to implementing direct serialization using the standard serializer, with performance optimizations, CIdriven benchmarking, and coverage analysis guiding refactoring; completion is targeted for the next Boost release.
    Link #JSON
  • 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 #MySQL
  • 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
  • Boost 1.84 arrived!
    Two new libraries, field name reflection in PFR and many more updates. Download: https://boost.org/users/history/version_1_84_0.html Boost.Cobalt, algorithms and types for C++20 coroutines: https://boost.org/libs/cobalt Boost.Redis: https://boost.org/libs/redis
    News #Redis

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