Version 1.60.0
December 17th, 2015 15:52 GMT
Documentation
New Libraries
- VMD:
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Variadic Macro Data library,
from Edward Diener.
Updated Libraries
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Atomic:
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Enforced proper alignment of
atomic<> storage. This should fix
possible issues on platforms that support atomic operations on data
units larger than the native word size. This may also change binary
layout of user's data structures that have atomic<> members.
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Fixed compilation for PowerPC with IBM XL C++ compiler. Corrected
memory barriers in PowerPC assembler.
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Fixed compilation with MSVC-8 for ARM.
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Fixed compilation with gcc 4.4 for x86-64, when 128-bit atomic operations
were used. (#10994)
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Optimized some gcc assembler blocks for x86/x86-64 to reduce the
number of used registers. This may require binutils 2.10 or later.
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Chrono - 2.0.5:
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Fixes:
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#10778
VC14 CTP4 Atomic don't compile with boost::chrono durations
which are not TriviallyCopyable
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#10840
Missing std:: qualifier for puts call in test_7868.cpp
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#10851
Missing std:: qualifier for puts call in time_point_output.cpp
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#10893
Minor doc typo in Boost.Chrono
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#10992
Chrono IO state savers inconsistent with Boost.IO state savers
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#10995
duration_put::put_value truncates fractional part
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#11006
Impossible to instantiate time_fmt_io_saver due to several
errors.
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#11012
chrono_io v2 fail to compile with boost::chrono::duration<
boost::rational<int> >
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Container:
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Implemented Polymorphic
Memory Resources.
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Add more BOOST_ASSERT checks to test preconditions in some operations
(like
pop_back,
pop_front, back, front,
etc.)
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Added C++11
back/front operations to basic_string.
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Fixed bugs:
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Context:
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#11603 typo in PPC32/MACH-O asm
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support for CYGWIN
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Core:
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In symbol demangling tools, added support for gabi++ ABI implementation
used in Android NDK.
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Added a new
enable_if_has_type
tool for performing SFINAE checks for presence of a nested type.
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Filesystem:
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New Features:
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Added functions
lexically_normal,
lexically_relative,
relative, and weakly_canonical.
Many thanks to Jamie Allsop for his help and perseverance.
Resolves tickets #1976,
#5897,
#6249.
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Class
path
added types reverse_iterator
and const_reverse_iterator,
and added functions rbegin(),
and rend().
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C++11
noexcept
supplied as specified in the Filesystem TS if supported by
the compiler.
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C++11 move constructors and move assignments supplied as specified
in the Filesystem TS if supported by the compiler. Resolves
#10291.
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Existing functions whose names changed in the Filesystem TS
are now supported under both the old and new names.
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Added
size()
function to class path.
Resolves #6874,
Path should have a size() member function.
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Tickets:
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Fix #11733,
Missing unistd.h include in boost/libs/filesystem/src/unique_path.cpp,
by apply a patch from Idar Tollefsen.
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Fix #5706,
unique_path Fails on Windows for Temporary User Profiles, by
applying pull
request #15 from Sebastian Redl to fix a race condition
in
unique_path.
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Fix #10591,
boost::filesystem does not build on iOS 8, by applying a patch
submitted by Daniel Seither.
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Fix #9454,
Boost Filesystem [library build] not compiling when BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED
is defined, by applying a patch submitted by Makesim.
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Fix #11447,
__OpenBSD__
macro name misspelled, by applying a patch submitted by Jasper
Lievisse Adriaanse.
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Fix #11288,
A patch to avoid redundant string allocations, by applying
a patch submitted by Yevhen Ivannikov.
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Resolve #11175,
out-of-date documentation causing users to incorrectly expect
that the library could be used with exceptions disabled.
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Resolve #11166,
by mitigating (i.e. reducing the likelihood of) a possible
external file system race in
remove().
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Fix #7258,
create_directories
returns false if the path ends with a slash. Also fix related
issues if path contains dot or dot-dot elements, and added
test cases to the test suite.
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Resolve #10766,
parent_path() with redundant separator
returns wrong value, by adding examples and notes to the reference
documentation to show why the returned value is in fact correct,
and to provide rationale for that behavior. See path.itr,
and path.decompose
parent_path() and filename() sections of the reference
docs.
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Close #7607,
path should not infer an invisible "." at the end
of a path that ends with a slash, as resolved by #7258
and #10766.
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Close #11061,
#11062,
Impossible to traverse the path of the reverse iterator, as
effectively resolved by the addition of the class
path reverse iteration feature.
The reference documentation has also been updated with a note
warning about the limitations of class path
iterators.
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Other fixes:
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Clear several spurious GCC warnings.
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Fix bug in
file_status
and recursive_directory_iterator:
C++ turns an explicit constructor with all arguments except
first defaulted into non-explicit single argument constructor.
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Apply Reference docs editorial cleanups: Use same style sheet
as the rest of the documentation. Tweak tab font size. Fix
excessively long lines in tables, synopsis.
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Minor fixes, including pull requests from Jonathan Wakely and
Marcel Raad.
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Flyweight:
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Fusion:
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All of fusion containers and generators now support C++11 variadic
templates. (pull-request
89, pull-request
97, pull-request
100)
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Special notice for
fusion::vector
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Due to implementation limitation, numbered form (i.e.
fusion::vectorN)
is provided via C++11 aliasing templates and deprecated
in C++11 or later. In this case, you should check BOOST_FUSION_HAS_VARIADIC_VECTOR
macro and switch usage because some partial specialization
would become compile error (e.g. pull-request
for Spirit).
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fusion::nview now support C++11 variadic
templates. (pull-request
90)
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fusion::fold is now SFINAE-friendly. (pull-request 102)
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Bug fixes:
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The generic fusion sequence convert to a deque fails with a
compiler error. (#11572)
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(doc) Return type of functions incorrect. (#3358)
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Geometry:
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Solved tickets:
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#10803
Union algorithm returning invalid geometry
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#11522
Namespace clash in buffer for traits::detail
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#11533
Assert failure in rtree caused by a bug in remove() if min
elements number is 1
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#11607
Private geometry::exception::what()
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#11709
is_simple segfault
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#11710
is_simple - empty geometry logic
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#11711
is_simple and is_valid - Points that are NaN or Infinity
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Bugfixes:
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Fix colocations of touching interior ring / exterior ring,
where it also touches another polygon
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Fix removing values from an empty rtree - no effect and 0 returned
instead of assertion failure
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Fix segfault in centroid for multi geometries containing empty
single geometries (thanks to Jiri Drbalek)
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Fix liang_barsky strategy for integral coordinates (thanks
to Dane Springmeyer)
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Interprocess:
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Improved
offset_ptr
performance and removed any undefined behaviour. No special cases
needed for different compilers.
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Fixed bugs:
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Intrusive:
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Advanced lookup
and insertions in ordered associative containers now support
comparison functions that are not required to offer the same strict
weak ordering as
key_compare,
the container must be partitioned in regards to the passed comparison
object.
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Fixed bugs:
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Lexical Cast:
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Fixed usage of
lexical_cast
with move only types #11570
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Fixed crash when
BOOST_LCAST_NO_COMPILE_TIME_PRECISION
is defined #11669
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Suppress some of the warning reported in #11570 and #4946
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Locale:
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Implemented generic codecvt facet and add general purpose utf8_codecvt
facet
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Added posix locale support for FreeBSD 10.0 and above
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Fixed issues #10017 (sun redefinition on SunOS), #11163 (set_default_messages_domain
incorrect behavior), #11673 build issues
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Some warning cleanup
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Fixed tests for latest ICU versions
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Added workaround for
libc++ issues
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Added new defines
BOOST_LOCALE_ENABLE_CHAR16_T
and BOOST_LOCALE_ENABLE_CHAR32_T
to enable C++11 char16_t
and char32_t instead
of deprecated ones
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Log:
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General changes:
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On Windows, the configuration macro
BOOST_LOG_USE_WINNT6_API
is no longer used by the library. The target Windows version
should be configured by defining macro BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION.
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Bug fixes:
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Fixed compilation for Android using Google NDK. (#11559)
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Fixed compilation of some logging statements, where the first
object to be put into stream is not directly supported by
formatting_ostream.
(#11549)
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Added a workaround for Solaris Studio 12.4, which should fix
the compilation of
formatting_ostream.
(#11545)
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Fixed compilation when native
wchar_t
type is disabled. (#11541)
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Fixed exporting symbols from the
boost_log_setup
library on POSIX-like systems.
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Fixed compilation of character decorators.
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Added a workaround for incorrect file name generation in text
file sink backend, when the file name contains date/time placeholders.
(#11691)
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See changelog
for more details.
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Move:
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Multi-index Containers:
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Fixed an interoperability problem with Qt
due to the optional definition of a macro with name
foreach in this framework.
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Maintenance fixes.
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odeint:
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New features:
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Added functionality to throw an exception if too many ODE steps
are performed.
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Added possibility to limit maximal step size in adaptive methods.
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several Bug fixes, see https://github.com/headmyshoulder/odeint-v2/issues
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Optional:
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Changed the implementation of
boost::none
again. Now it is a const object with internal linkage (as any other
tag). This fixes #11203.
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Predef:
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Add detection of SIMD hardware.
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See history
for more details.
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Test:
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Boost.test v3.1 see the 'Change
log' section for details.
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New features
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Improved Command Line Interface
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Improved dataset API
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Bug fixes
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#3384, #3897, #6032, #6859, #7257
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#9228, #10317, #11279, #11478
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#11571, #11623, #11624, #11625
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Thread - 4.6.0:
New
Experimental Features:
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#11231
Allow to set continuation future's destructor behavior to non-blocking
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#11424
Provide shared_timed_mutex as an alternative name for shared_mutex
and deprecate the use of shared_mutex as a timed mutex
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#11734
future::then(Cont) should be able to execute the contination on undetermined
thread
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#11736
Allow to use launch::executor on future::then(launch::executor, cont)
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#11737
Add a launch::inherit policy that can be used on ::then() to use
the policy of the parent future Fixed Bugs:
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#3926
thread_specific_ptr + dlopen library causes a SIGSEGV.
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#6377
Condition variable blocks when changing time
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#6787
boost::thread::sleep() hangs if system time is rolled back
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#7665
this_thread::sleep_for no longer uses steady_clock in thread
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#7720
exception lock_error while intensive locking/unlocking of mutex
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#9309
test_latch fails often on clang-darwin-tot11
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#10788
GetLogicalProcessor isn't available for Windows platform less or
equals to 0x0502
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#11090
ex_future_unwrap- ThreadSanitizer: lock-order-inversion (potential
deadlock)
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#11158
Pthread thread deadlock when faketime used
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#11174
boost::condition_variable::timed_wait with predicate unexpectedly
wakes up while should wait infinite
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#11185
Incorrect URL redirection
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#11192
boost::future<>::then() with an executor doesn't compile when
the callback returns a future
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#11250
future made from make_exceptional fails on assertion in destructor
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#11256
future<>::is_ready() == false in continuation function
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#11261
bad use of scoped threads in basic_thread_pool
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#11262
bad use of direct pointer in shared_state_nullary_task
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#11263
lock already locked lock
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#11266
boost::packaged_task has invalid variadic signature
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#11302
boost thread doesn't build with BOOST_THREAD_PATCH.
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#11322
sleep_for() nanoseconds overload will always return too early on
windows
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#11329
using declarative for GetProcessHeap, .... fails
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#11368
boost thread's usage of CreateWaitableTimer wakes PC from sleep (doh)
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#11377
Boost condition variable always waits for system clock deadline
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#11435
gcc compiler warning in future.hpp
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#11555
devector.hpp assumes allocator_traits_type is always present
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#11562
Timer (using steady_clock) expires after computer time is set forward
on Ubuntu 64-bit
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#11672
Thread: Should use unique_ptr, not auto_ptr
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#11688
thread::try_join_until: Avoid busy wait if system clock changes
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#11716
::then(f) should inherit the parent Executor
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UUID:
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Added a workaround for MSVC codegen bug that could cause crashes
when comparing UUIDs.
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Added detection of AVX being enabled with MSVC compiler switches.
News
Notes for
Windows users
This release of Boost will by default compile for Windows Vista/Windows Server
2008, if the compiler supports a recent enough Windows SDK, and for Windows
XP otherwise. Binaries compiled with default options may not run on the older
Windows versions.
It is still possible to explicitly specify target Windows version by defining
BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION
to a numeric version of Windows API. For example, building Boost for Windows
XP can be done with the following command:
b2 release define=BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0501
The list of Windows API version numbers can be seen on this
page.
This change only concerns libraries that use the common Windows API abstraction
layer. Currently, these libraries are: Boost.Chrono, Boost.Dll, Boost.Log,
Boost.UUID. This will also affect all dependent libraries.
Release
of Hana postponed
Due to time constraints, the release of Hana
will be postponed to a later release of Boost. This will also allow some
known issues to be addressed properly before releasing the library officially
as a part of Boost. More information can be found on the mailing
list.
Release
of Boost.DLL library postponed
In order to provide superior support of uncommon toolsets and platforms,
the release of Boost.DLL was postponed to a later release of Boost. This
also allows to test better a recently added ability to copy construct and
copy assign instances of boost::dll::shared_library and provide examples on
importing functions with non default calling conventions. Latest version
and developer documentation of the library could be found at GitHub
repo.
Compilers Tested
Boost's primary test compilers are:
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Linux:
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Clang: 3.4, 3.6
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Clang, C++14: 3.7
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GCC: 4.4.7, 4.8.4, 4.9.3, 5.1.0, 5.2.1
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GCC, C++11: 4.4.7
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GCC, C++14: 4.9.3
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Windows:
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GCC, C++03, mingw: 3.4.5
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GCC, C++11, mingw: 4.6.4, 4.7.3, 4.8.1
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GCC, C++14, mingw: 4.9.3, 5.1.0
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Visual C++: 7.1, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 14.0
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Android:
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Clang: 3.6, 3.7
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GCC: 4.9.0, 5.2.0
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QNX:
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SunOS:
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Oracle Solaris Studio: 12.4, 12.5
Boost's additional test compilers include:
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Linux:
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Clang: 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4.2, 3.6.0, 3.8.0
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Clang, C++14: 3.7.0
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GCC: 4.4.7, 4.5.3, 4.6.4, 4.7.3, 4.8.1, 4.9.3, 5.1.0, 6.0.0
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GCC, C++11: 4.4.7
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GCC, C++14: 4.9.3, 5.2.1
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IBM XL C++: 13.1.2.0
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Intel: 16.0
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OS X:
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Windows:
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GCC, C++03, mingw: 3.4.5
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GCC, C++11, mingw: 4.7.3, 4.8.1
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GCC, C++14, mingw: 4.9.3, 5.1.0
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Visual C++: 7.1, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 14.0
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Android:
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Clang: 3.6, 3.7
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GCC: 4.9.0, 5.2.0
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FreeBSD:
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Clang, C++11: 3.4.1, 3.7.0
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GCC, C++11: 4.8.5, 5.2.0, 6.0.0
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QNX:
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SunOS:
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Oracle Solaris Studio: 12.4, 12.5
Acknowledgements
Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler,
Rene Rivera, Daniel James,
Vladimir Prus and Marshall Clow managed this release.
