New Libraries

• Meta State Machine: High-performance expressive UML2 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry
• Polygon: Booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson.

Updated Libraries

• Accumulators:

  • Correct miscellaneous documentation inaccuracies
• Asio:

  • Reduced compile times. (Note that some programs may need to add additional #includes, e.g. if the program uses boost::array but does not explicitly include <boost/array.hpp>.)
  • Reduced the size of generated code.
  • Refactored deadline_timer implementation to improve performance.
  • Improved multiprocessor scalability on Windows by using a dedicated hidden thread to wait for timers.
  • Improved performance of asio::streambuf with async_read() and async_read_until(). These read operations now use the existing capacity of the streambuf when reading, rather than limiting the read to 512 bytes.
  • Added optional separate compilation. To enable, add #include <boost/asio/impl/src.cpp> to one source file in a program, then build the program with BOOST_ASIO_SEPARATE_COMPILATION defined in the project/compiler settings. Alternatively, BOOST_ASIO_DYN_LINK may be defined to build a separately-compiled Asio as part of a shared library.
  • Added new macro BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_FENCED_BLOCK to permit the disabling of memory fences around completion handlers, even if thread support is enabled.
  • Reworked timeout examples to better illustrate typical use cases.
  • Ensured that handler arguments are passed as const types.
  • Fixed incorrect parameter order in null_buffers variant of async_send_to (#4170).
  • Ensured unsigned char is used with isdigit in getaddrinfo emulation (#4201).
  • Fixed handling of very small but non-zero timeouts (#4205).
  • Fixed crash that occurred when an empty buffer sequence was passed to a composed read or write operation.
  • Added missing operator+ overload in buffers_iterator (#4382).
  • Implemented cancellation of null_buffers operations on Windows.
• Config:

  • Added new defect macro, BOOST_NO_COMPLETE_VALUE_INITIALIZATION.
  • Added new defect macro BOOST_NO_0X_HDR_TYPEINDEX, fixes issue #4274.
  • Added support for code visibility in GCC.
  • Fixed issues #4385, #4324, #4221, #4182, #4178, #4152, #4115. #4112, #4059, #4041, #4012.
• Filesystem:

  • This release contains both version 2 and version 3 of the library. Version 3 is a major upgrade that will break some existing user code, so version 2 is the default. Users are encouraged to migrate to version 3. See 'Version 2' and 'Version 3' for more information.
  • Fix problems with symbol visibility for shared libraries.
  • Fix various minor problems.
  • Fixed issues: #3863, #4248.
• Foreach:

  • Add boost/foreach_fwd.hpp for forward declarations of foreach's customization points, fixes #3998.
  • Remove out-of-date work-arounds for sun compilers, fixes #4306.
• Fusion:

  • Added fusion::reverse_fold, fusion::iter_fold and fusion::reverse_iter_fold (#1623).
• Hash:

  • Option to prevent implicit casts when calling the hash function by defining the macro BOOST_HASH_NO_IMPLICIT_CASTS, which can avoid some subtle problems. This might be activated by default in a future version.
• Iostreams:

  • Several fixes for file descriptors class, including a breaking change to the constructors and open methods for file_descriptor, file_descriptor_source and file_descriptor_sink. See the documentation for details. The old methods are still available if you define BOOST_IOSTREAMS_USE_DEPRECATED (#3323, #3517, #4335).
  • Fix several issues with compression and decompression (#2318, #4091, #3348, #2783, #1579, #3853).
  • And a load more miscellaneous fixes (#3851, #3279, #3689, #2356, #2996, #4102, #2998, #1612, #2325).
  • Thanks to Steven Watanabe for almost all these fixes. For more detail see the release notes.
• Math:

  • Fixed incorrect range and support for Rayleigh distribution.
• MPL:

  • Make mpl::string work with mpl::transform.
• Multi-index Containers:

  • Fixed a bug preventing the use of modify_key with rollback in ordered and hashed indices when Modifier and Rollback are different types (ticket #4130).
• Proto:

  • Minor change in behavior: when using proto::and_ as a transform, apply all transforms but only return the result of applying the last. See Proto's Release Notes for details.
  • Minor change in behavior: proto::as_expr and proto::as_child no longer run objects that are already proto expressions through the expression domain's generator. See Proto's Release Notes for details.
  • Minor change in behavior: Proto uses proto::basic_expr instead of proto::expr when possible for better compile times. See Proto's Release Notes for details.
  • Add support for sub-domains.
  • Introduce per-domain as_expr and as_child customization points to allow for domain-specific customization of variable capture behavior.
  • The proto::_default transform is also a grammar that matches the expressions the transform knows how to handle.
  • Add proto::_void, a no-op primitive transform that does nothing and returns void.
  • The proto::pass_through transform doesn't strip expression wrappers, fixes #4175.
  • Const-correctness fixes when invoking proto domains.
• Regex:

  • Fixed issues: #4309, #4215, #4212, #4191, #4132, #4123, #4114, #4036, #4020, #3941, #3902, #3890.
• Spirit: Spirit V2.4, see the 'What's New' section for details.
• System:

  • Change system_category and generic_category to functions, to conform to the C++0x FCD. This change may cause compile errors some user code; the fix is add "()" to references to system_category and generic_category, so that they become function calls.
  • Fix problems with symbol visibility for shared libraries.
  • Fixed issues: #4254, #3994, #3474.
• Thread:

  • Fixes for miscellaneous trac issues (#2501, #4341, #4363, #3760, #3761, #3611, #2955, #4071, #3195, #3097, #2874, #4316, #4317, #4322, #3244, #2747, #4305, #3195, #2704, #2293, #868, #2918, #4238, #3269, #3178, #3195).
  • Fixes for other miscellaneous issues (remove warnings, support newer compilers, etc.)
• TR1:

  • Fixed VC10 support.
  • std::tr1::result_of always uses the TR1 ResultOf protocol, even on compilers that support the C++0x decltype-based implementation.
• Type Traits:

  • Added support for rvalue references throughout the library, plus two new traits classes is_rvalue_reference and is_lvalue_reference. Fixes #4407 and #3804.
  • Fixed ticket #3621.
• uBLAS:

  • New assignment operators to feed in vectors and matrices in many nice ways (#4034). Thank you Nasos
  • New doxygen-based documentation
  • Enable arithmetic operators (+,-,*,/) to work between ublas containers of std::complex and integral types (#3649). Thank you Neal
  • Removed unused variables in functional.hpp (#4377). Thank you Marco
  • New matrix_indirect and vector_indirect views to access elements with a matrix or vector of indices
• Utility:

  • Added a new template class, boost::initialized<T>, in order to fix #3472.
  • New version of value_initialized<T> no longer calls memset when the compiler has implemented value-initialization completely (#3869).
  • New template boost::tr1_result_of that implements the TR1 ResultOf protocol even if boost::result_of uses the C++0x decltype-based implementation.
• Uuid:

  • Define BOOST_UUID_NO_TYPE_TRAITS to remove the dependency on Boost.TypeTraits.
  • Stream operator<< handles left, internal, and right manipulators.
  • Added to_string, to_wstring to convert a uuid to a string.
  • Fixed minor bugs in documentation.
• Wave: See the Changelog for details.
• Xpressive:

  • Replace non-portable using declarations with typedefs in nested_results.
  • Support user-defined assertions with placeholders for non-local variables.

Updated tools

• Boostbook:

  • Significantly faster.
  • Improved syntax highlighter.
• Quickbook:

  • Use the cygwin 1.7 API for better path handling.
  • Improved boostbook generation.
  • Tweak the grammar to clean up some edge cases.
  • For more detail see the change log.

Compilers Tested

Boost's primary test compilers are:

• OS X:

  • GCC 4.0.1 on Intel Leopard.
• Linux:

  • GCC 4.4 on 64-bit Suse.
• Windows:

  • Visual C++ 7.1 SP1, 8.0 SP1, 9.0 SP1 and 10.0.
  • GCC 4.3.3, using Mingw.
• FreeBSD:

  • GCC 4.2.1, 32 and 64 bit.

Boost's additional test compilers include:

• Linux:

  • Intel 10.1 on 32 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Intel 10.1, 11.0, 11.1 on 64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • GCC 3.4.6, 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • GCC, with C++0x extensions, 4.3.4, 4.4.3, 4.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • GCC 4.4 on 64 bit Suse.
  • QLogic PathScale(TM) Compiler Suite: Version 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Clang from subversion (will be released with LLVM 2.8).
• OS X:

  • Intel C++ Compiler 10.1, 11.0, 11.1 on Leopard.
  • GCC 4.0.1, 4.2.1 (Apple build).
  • GCC 4.4
  • GCC, with C++0x extensions, 4.4
  • Clang from subversion (will be released with LLVM 2.8).
• Windows:

  • Visual C++ 7.1 SP, 8.0, 9.0 on 32-bit XP.
  • Visual C++ 9.0 using STLport 5.2 on XP and Windows Mobile 5.0.
  • Visual C++ 10.0 on XP.
  • Visual C++ 10.0 on 64-bit Windows 7.
  • Borland/Codegear C++ 5.9.3, 6.1.3 (2009), 6.2.1 (2010).
  • Intel C++ 11.1, with a Visual C++ 9.0 backend, on Vista 32-bit.
  • GCC 4.3.3, 4.5 on Mingw.
  • GCC, with C++0x extensions, 4.5 on Mingw.
• AIX:

  • IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition, V11.1.0.0, on AIX Version 5.3.0.40.
• FreeBSD:

  • GCC 4.2.1 on FreeBSD 7.2, 64 bit.
  • GCC 4.2.1 on FreeBSD 8.0, 32 bit.
• Solaris:

  • Sun C++ 5.10 on Solaris 5.10.

Acknowledgements

Beman Dawes, Eric Niebler, Rene Rivera, Daniel James and Vladimir Prus managed this release.

Thanks to Marshall Clow for organizing the bug sprint and to everyone who took part.