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Operators

Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek
First Release
1.9.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming, Iterators, Math and numerics
Value Initialized

Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.9.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Integer

The organization of boost integer headers and classes is designed to take advantage of <stdint.h> types from the 1999 C standard without resorting to undefined behavior in terms of the 1998 C++ standard. The header <boost/cstdint.hpp> makes the standard integer types safely available in namespace boost without placing any names in namespace std.

Author(s)
 
First Release
1.9.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics
Timer

Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.9.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Config

Helps Boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.

Author(s)
 
First Release
1.9.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Broken compiler workarounds
Rational

A rational number class.

Author(s)
Paul Moore
First Release
1.11.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics
Call Traits

Defines types for passing parameters.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
First Release
1.13.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming
Utility

Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and others
First Release
1.13.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Miscellaneous, Patterns and Idioms
Compressed Pair

Empty member optimization.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
First Release
1.13.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures, Patterns and Idioms
Type Traits

Templates for fundamental properties of types.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al
First Release
1.13.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
Random

A complete system for random number generation.

Author(s)
Jens Maurer
First Release
1.15.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics
Functional

The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers.

Author(s)
Mark Rodgers
First Release
1.16.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Array

STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size.

Author(s)
Nicolai Josuttis
First Release
1.17.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
Regex

Regular expression library.

Author(s)
John Maddock
First Release
1.18.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
String and text processing
Graph

The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the Standard Template Library (STL).

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team.
First Release
1.18.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms, Containers, Iterators
Concept Check

Tools for generic programming.

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek
First Release
1.19.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Correctness and testing, Generic Programming
Static Assert

Static assertions (compile time assertions).

Author(s)
John Maddock
First Release
1.19.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Correctness and testing, Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
Property Map

Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects.

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek
First Release
1.19.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Generic Programming
Python

The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++ classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa, using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams
First Release
1.19.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Inter-language support
Conversion

Polymorphic casts.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Lexical Cast

General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
Iterator

The Boost Iterator Library contains two parts. The first is a system of concepts which extend the C++ standard iterator requirements. The second is a framework of components for building iterators based on these extended concepts and includes several useful iterator adaptors.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek and Thomas Witt
First Release
1.21.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Iterators
Pool

Memory pool management.

Author(s)
Steve Cleary
First Release
1.21.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Memory
Test

Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring.

Author(s)
Gennadiy Rozental and Raffi Enficiaud
First Release
1.21.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Correctness and testing
Compatibility

Help for non-conforming standard libraries.

Author(s)
Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer
First Release
1.21.2
Categories
Broken compiler workarounds
CRC

The Boost CRC Library provides two implementations of CRC (cyclic redundancy code) computation objects and two implementations of CRC computation functions. The implementations are template-based.

Author(s)
Daryle Walker
First Release
1.22.0
Categories
Domain Specific
Math Octonion

Octonions.

Author(s)
Hubert Holin
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Tokenizer

Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens.

Author(s)
John Bandela
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Iterators, String and text processing
Smart Ptr

Smart pointer class templates.

Author(s)
Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, Darin Adler and Glen Fernandes
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Memory
Math Quaternion

Quaternions.

Author(s)
Hubert Holin
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Math

Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: The Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple library provides run-time and compile-time evaluation of the greatest common divisor (GCD) or least common multiple (LCM) of two integers. The Special Functions library currently provides eight templated special functions, in namespace boost. The Complex Number Inverse Trigonometric Functions are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard. Quaternions are a relative of complex numbers often used to parameterise rotations in three dimensional space. Octonions, like quaternions, are a relative of complex numbers.

Author(s)
various
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Any

Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures
Function

Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks.

Author(s)
Doug Gregor
First Release
1.23.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Programming Interfaces
Tuple

Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi
First Release
1.24.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures
Bind

boost::bind is a generalization of the standard functions std::bind1st and std::bind2nd. It supports arbitrary function objects, functions, function pointers, and member function pointers, and is able to bind any argument to a specific value or route input arguments into arbitrary positions.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.25.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Ref

A utility library for passing references to generic functions.

Author(s)
Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor and Dave Abrahams
First Release
1.25.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Thread

Portable C++ multi-threading. C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17.

Author(s)
Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.25.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Member Function

Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.25.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Math Common Factor

Greatest common divisor and least common multiple.

Author(s)
Daryle Walker
First Release
1.26.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Preprocessor

Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion.

Author(s)
Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides
First Release
1.26.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Preprocessor Metaprogramming
Assert

Customizable assert macros.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.27.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Correctness and testing, Error handling and recovery
Lambda

Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell
First Release
1.28.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
IO

Utilities for the standard I/O library.

Author(s)
Daryle Walker, Beman Dawes and Glen Fernandes
First Release
1.28.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output
Multi-Array

Boost.MultiArray provides a generic N-dimensional array concept definition and common implementations of that interface.

Author(s)
Ron Garcia
First Release
1.29.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Math and numerics
uBLAS

uBLAS provides tensor, matrix, and vector classes as well as basic linear algebra routines. Several dense, packed and sparse storage schemes are supported.

Author(s)
Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch
First Release
1.29.0
Categories
Math and numerics
Date Time

A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.

Author(s)
Jeff Garland
First Release
1.29.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Domain Specific, System
Dynamic Bitset

The dynamic_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[] and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can apply to builtin integers, such as operator& and operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the dynamic_bitset.

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison
First Release
1.29.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
Format

The format library provides a type-safe mechanism for formatting arguments according to a printf-like format-string.

Author(s)
Samuel Krempp
First Release
1.29.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
Spirit

LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser and Dan Nuffer
First Release
1.30.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Parsing, String and text processing
MPL

The Boost.MPL library is a general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunctions. It provides a conceptual foundation and an extensive set of powerful and coherent tools that make doing explict metaprogramming in C++ as easy and enjoyable as possible within the current language.

Author(s)
Aleksey Gurtovoy
First Release
1.30.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
Optional

A value-semantic, type-safe wrapper for representing 'optional' (or 'nullable') objects of a given type. An optional object may or may not contain a value of the underlying type.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.30.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures
Interval

Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals.

Author(s)
Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion
First Release
1.30.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics
Filesystem

The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.30.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
System
Enable If

Selective inclusion of function template overloads.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock and Andrew Lumsdaine
First Release
1.31.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming
Variant

Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.

Author(s)
Eric Friedman and Itay Maman
First Release
1.31.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Serialization

Serialization for persistence and marshalling.

Author(s)
Robert Ramey
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output
Range

A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts.

Author(s)
Niel Groves and Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms
Assign

Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier.

Author(s)
Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output
In Place Factory, Typed In Place Factory

Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming
Result Of

Determines the type of a function call expression.

Author(s)
 
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Tribool

3-state boolean type library.

Author(s)
Doug Gregor
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Numeric Conversion

Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions.

Author(s)
Fernando Cacciola
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics, Miscellaneous
Program Options

The program_options library allows program developers to obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and config file.

Author(s)
Vladimir Prus
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Input/Output, Miscellaneous
Min-Max

Standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations.

Author(s)
Hervé Brönnimann
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms
String Algo

String algorithms library.

Author(s)
Pavol Droba
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms, String and text processing
Multi-Index

The Boost Multi-index Containers Library provides a class template named multi_index_container which enables the construction of containers maintaining one or more indices with different sorting and access semantics.

Author(s)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
First Release
1.32.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Pointer Container

Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming.

Author(s)
Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.33.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Parameter

Boost.Parameter Library - Write functions that accept arguments by name.

Author(s)
David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin
First Release
1.33.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Programming Interfaces
Wave

The Boost.Wave library is a Standards conformant, and highly configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface.

Author(s)
Hartmut Kaiser
First Release
1.33.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
String and text processing
Container Hash

An STL-compatible hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types.

Author(s)
Daniel James
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Iostreams

Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters.

Author(s)
Jonathan Turkanis
First Release
1.33.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
Container Hash

An STL-compatible hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types.

Author(s)
Daniel James
First Release
1.33.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Xpressive

Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and which can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars.

Author(s)
Eric Niebler
First Release
1.34.0
Categories
String and text processing
Foreach

In C++, writing a loop that iterates over a sequence is tedious. We can either use iterators, which requires a considerable amount of boiler-plate, or we can use the std::for_each() algorithm and move our loop body into a predicate, which requires no less boiler-plate and forces us to move our logic far from where it will be used. In contrast, some other languages, like Perl, provide a dedicated "foreach" construct that automates this process. BOOST_FOREACH is just such a construct for C++. It iterates over sequences for us, freeing us from having to deal directly with iterators or write predicates.

Author(s)
Eric Niebler
First Release
1.34.0
Categories
Algorithms, Language Features Emulation
Statechart

Boost.Statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code.

Author(s)
Andreas Huber Dönni
First Release
1.34.0
Categories
State Machines
Typeof

Typeof operator emulation.

Author(s)
Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt
First Release
1.34.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation
Bimap

Bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key.

Author(s)
Matias Capeletto
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
MPI

Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming.

Author(s)
Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Asio

Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs.

Author(s)
Chris Kohlhoff
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output
System

Extensible error reporting.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Error handling and recovery, Programming Interfaces, System
Math/Statistical Distributions

A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them.

Author(s)
John Maddock and Paul Bristow
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Function Types

Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types.

Author(s)
Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
Fusion

Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures, Template Metaprogramming
Circular Buffer

A STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer.

Author(s)
Jan Gaspar
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
Math/Special Functions

A wide selection of mathematical special functions.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Intrusive

Intrusive containers and algorithms.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
GIL

(C++14) Generic Image Library

Author(s)
Lubomir Bourdev, Hailin Jin and Christian Henning
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Algorithms, Containers, Generic Programming, Image processing, Iterators
Interprocess

Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.35.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Units

Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion.

Author(s)
Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe
First Release
1.36.0
Categories
Domain Specific
Exception

The Boost Exception library supports transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads.

Author(s)
Emil Dotchevski
First Release
1.36.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Error handling and recovery
Unordered

Unordered associative containers.

Author(s)
Daniel James
First Release
1.36.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
Accumulators

Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators.

Author(s)
Eric Niebler
First Release
1.36.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Math and numerics
Proto

Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages.

Author(s)
Eric Niebler
First Release
1.37.0
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
Swap

Enhanced generic swap function.

Author(s)
Joseph Gauterin
First Release
1.38.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Scope Exit

Execute arbitrary code at scope exit.

Author(s)
Alexander Nasonov
First Release
1.38.0
Categories
Language Features Emulation
Flyweight

Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects.

Author(s)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
First Release
1.38.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Patterns and Idioms
Signals2

Managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2).

Author(s)
Frank Mori Hess
First Release
1.39.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Patterns and Idioms
GraphParallel

The PBGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the Standard Template Library (STL).

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek, Doug Gregor, and a University of Notre Dame team.
First Release
1.40.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms, Containers, Iterators
Property Tree

A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data.

Author(s)
Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl
First Release
1.41.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Uuid

A universally unique identifier.

Author(s)
Andy Tompkins
First Release
1.42.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures, Domain Specific
Functional/Forward

Adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments

Author(s)
Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.43.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Functional/Factory

Function object templates for dynamic and static object creation

Author(s)
Glen Fernandes and Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.43.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Polygon

Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates.

Author(s)
Lucanus Simonson and Andrii Sydorchuk
First Release
1.44.0
Categories
Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
Meta State Machine

A very high-performance library for expressive UML2 finite state machines.

Author(s)
Christophe Henry
First Release
1.44.0
Categories
State Machines
ICL

Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values

Author(s)
Joachim Faulhaber
First Release
1.46.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Chrono

Useful time utilities. C++11.

Author(s)
Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.47.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Domain Specific, System
Geometry

The Boost.Geometry library provides geometric algorithms, primitives and spatial index.

Author(s)
Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande, Mateusz Loskot, Adam Wulkiewicz, Menelaos Karavelas and Vissarion Fisikopoulos
First Release
1.47.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
Ratio

Compile time rational arithmetic. C++11.

Author(s)
Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.47.0
Categories
Math and numerics
Phoenix

Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden, Thomas Heller and John Fletcher
First Release
1.47.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Move

Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++11 compilers.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.48.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation
Locale

Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++.

Author(s)
Artyom Beilis
First Release
1.48.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
String and text processing
Container

Standard library containers and extensions.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.48.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Heap

Priority queue data structures.

Author(s)
Tim Blechmann
First Release
1.49.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures
Local Function

Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.50.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Identity Type

Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.50.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Preprocessor Metaprogramming
Algorithm

A collection of useful generic algorithms.

Author(s)
Marshall Clow
First Release
1.50.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms
Functional/Overloaded Function

Overload different functions into a single function object.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.50.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Context

(C++11) Context switching library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.51.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Multiprecision

Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer, and rational arithmetic.

Author(s)
John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos
First Release
1.53.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Math and numerics
Atomic

C++11-style atomic<>.

Author(s)
Helge Bahmann, Tim Blechmann and Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.53.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Lockfree

Lockfree data structures.

Author(s)
Tim Blechmann
First Release
1.53.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Coroutine (deprecated)

Coroutine library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.53.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Odeint

Solving ordinary differential equations.

Author(s)
Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky
First Release
1.53.0
Categories
Math and numerics
TTI

Type Traits Introspection library.

Author(s)
Edward Diener
First Release
1.54.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
Type Erasure

Runtime polymorphism based on concepts.

Author(s)
Steven Watanabe
First Release
1.54.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Data structures
Log

Logging library.

Author(s)
Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.54.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Predef

This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers.

Author(s)
René Ferdinand Rivera Morell
First Release
1.55.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
98
Categories
Miscellaneous
ThrowException

A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries.

Author(s)
Emil Dotchevski and Peter Dimov
First Release
1.56.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Error handling and recovery
Align

Memory alignment functions, allocators, traits.

Author(s)
Glen Fernandes
First Release
1.56.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Memory
Type Index

Runtime/Compile time copyable type info.

Author(s)
Antony Polukhin
First Release
1.56.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation
Core

A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.56.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Miscellaneous
Endian

Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.58.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Input/Output, Math and numerics, Miscellaneous
Sort

High-performance templated sort functions.

Author(s)
Steven Ross
First Release
1.58.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms
Coroutine2

(C++11) Coroutine library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.59.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Convert

An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework.

Author(s)
Vladimir Batov
First Release
1.59.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
VMD

Variadic Macro Data library.

Author(s)
Edward Diener
First Release
1.60.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Preprocessor Metaprogramming
DLL

Library for comfortable work with DLL and DSO.

Author(s)
Antony Polukhin and Renato Tegon Forti
First Release
1.61.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
System
Metaparse

A library for generating compile time parsers parsing embedded DSL code as part of the C++ compilation process

Author(s)
Abel Sinkovics
First Release
1.61.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
Compute

Parallel/GPU-computing library

Author(s)
Kyle Lutz
First Release
1.61.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Hana

A modern C++ metaprogramming library. It provides high level algorithms to manipulate heterogeneous sequences, allows writing type-level computations with a natural syntax, provides tools to introspect user-defined types and much more.

Author(s)
Louis Dionne
First Release
1.61.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
Fiber

(C++11) Userland threads library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.62.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
QVM

Generic C++ library for working with Quaternions Vectors and Matrices.

Author(s)
Emil Dotchevski
First Release
1.62.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Algorithms, Generic Programming, Math and numerics
Process

Library to create processes in a portable way.

Author(s)
Merino Vidal, Ilya Sokolov, Felipe Tanus, Jeff Flinn, Thomas Jarosch, Boris Schaeling and Klemens D. Morgenstern
First Release
1.64.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
System
Stacktrace

Gather, store, copy and print backtraces.

Author(s)
Antony Polukhin
First Release
1.65.0
Categories
Correctness and testing, System
PolyCollection

Fast containers of polymorphic objects.

Author(s)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
First Release
1.65.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Containers
Mp11

A C++11 metaprogramming library.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.66.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
Beast

Portable HTTP, WebSocket, and network operations using only C++11 and Boost.Asio

Author(s)
Vinnie Falco
First Release
1.66.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output
CallableTraits

A spiritual successor to Boost.FunctionTypes, Boost.CallableTraits is a header-only C++11 library for the compile-time inspection and manipulation of all 'callable' types. Additional support for C++17 features.

Author(s)
Barrett Adair
First Release
1.66.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Template Metaprogramming
HOF

Higher-order functions for C++

Author(s)
Paul Fultz II
First Release
1.67.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Template Metaprogramming
Contract

Contract programming for C++. All contract programming features are supported: Subcontracting, class invariants, postconditions (with old and return values), preconditions, customizable actions on assertion failure (e.g., terminate or throw), optional compilation and checking of assertions, etc.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.67.0
Categories
Correctness and testing
YAP

An expression template library for C++14 and later.

Author(s)
T. Zachary Laine
First Release
1.68.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
Parameter Python Bindings

Boost.Parameter Library Python bindings.

Author(s)
David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin
First Release
1.69.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Programming Interfaces
Safe Numerics

Guaranteed Correct Integer Arithmetic

Author(s)
Robert Ramey
First Release
1.69.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Correctness and testing, Math and numerics
Spirit Repository

The Spirit repository is a community effort collecting different reusable components (primitives, directives, grammars, etc.) for Qi parsers and Karma generators.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser and Dan Nuffer
First Release
1.69.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Parsing, String and text processing
Spirit Classic

LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser and Dan Nuffer
First Release
1.69.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Parsing, String and text processing
Histogram

Fast multi-dimensional histogram with convenient interface for C++14

Author(s)
Hans Dembinski
First Release
1.70.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
Outcome

A deterministic failure handling library partially simulating lightweight exceptions.

Author(s)
Niall Douglas
First Release
1.70.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Patterns and Idioms, Programming Interfaces
Variant2

A never-valueless, strong guarantee implementation of std::variant.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.71.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Containers, Data structures
String Ref

String view templates.

Author(s)
Marshall Clow
First Release
1.71.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers
Static String

A fixed capacity dynamically sized string.

Author(s)
Krystian Stasiowski and Vinnie Falco
First Release
1.73.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
String and text processing
Nowide

Standard library functions with UTF-8 API on Windows.

Author(s)
Artyom Beilis
First Release
1.73.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
System
Stl_interfaces

C++14 and later CRTP templates for defining iterators, views, and containers.

Author(s)
T. Zachary Laine
First Release
1.74.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Generic Programming
JSON

JSON parsing, serialization, and DOM in C++11

Author(s)
Vinnie Falco and Krystian Stasiowski
First Release
1.75.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Containers, Data structures, Input/Output
PFR

Basic reflection for user defined types.

Author(s)
Antony Polukhin
First Release
1.75.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Data structures, Template Metaprogramming
LEAF

A lightweight error handling library for C++11.

Author(s)
Emil Dotchevski
First Release
1.75.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Error handling and recovery
Property Map (Parallel)

Parallel extensions to Property Map for use with Parallel Graph.

Author(s)
Jeremy Siek
First Release
1.77.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Containers, Generic Programming
Lambda2

A C++14 lambda library.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.77.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
14
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Describe

A C++14 reflection library.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.77.0
Categories
Language Features Emulation, Template Metaprogramming
URL

URL parsing in C++11

Author(s)
Vinnie Falco and Alan de Freitas
First Release
1.81.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Containers, Data structures, Input/Output
MySQL

MySQL client library built on top of Boost.Asio.

Author(s)
Rubén Pérez
First Release
1.82.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output