New Libraries:
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Compute:
Parallel/GPU-computing library
DLL:
Library for comfortable work with DLL and DSO. Library provides a portable across platforms way to:
* load libraries
* import any native functions and variables
* make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols
* query libraries for sections and exported symbols
* self loading and self querying
* getting program and module location by exported symbol
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.
Metaparse:
A library for generating compile time parsers parsing embedded DSL code as part of the C++ compilation process. The library is similar to Spirit, however while parsers built with Spirit parse at run-time, parsers built with Metaparse parse at compile-time.
New Libraries
VMD:
Variadic Macro Data library, from Edward Diener.
Updated Libraries
Atomic:
* 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.
* Fixed compilation for PowerPC with IBM XL C++ compiler. Corrected memory barriers in PowerPC assembler.
* Fixed compilation with MSVC-8 for ARM.
* Fixed compilation with gcc 4.4 for x86-64, when 128-bit atomic operations were used. (10994)
* Optimized some gcc assembler blocks for x86/x86-64 to reduce the number of used registers. This may require binutils 2.10 or later.
Chrono - 2.0.5:
Fixes:
* 10778 VC14 CTP4 Atomic don't compile with boost::chrono durations which are not TriviallyCopyable
* 10840 Missing std:: qualifier for puts call in test_7868.cpp
* 10851 Missing std:: qualifier for puts call in time_point_output.cpp
* 10893 Minor doc typo in Boost.Chrono
* 10992 Chrono IO state savers inconsistent with Boost.IO state savers
* 10995 duration_put::put_value truncates fractional part
* 11006 Impossible to instantiate time_fmt_io_saver due to several errors.
* 11012 chrono_io v2 fail to compile with boost::chrono::duration< boost::rational<int> >
Container:
* Implemented Polymorphic Memory Resources.
* Add more BOOST_ASSERT checks to test preconditions in some operations (like pop_back, pop_front, back, front, etc.)
* Added C++11 back/front operations to basic_string.
Fixed bugs:
* Trac 11627: "small_vector<T,n>::swap() appears to be broken".
* Trac 11628: "small_vector<int,n> iterates over elements in destructor".
* Trac 11697: "Wrong initialization order in tuple copy-constructor".
* Trac 11698: "Missing return statement in static_storage_allocator".
* GitHub 29: Doc fixes for flap_map complexity requirements.
* GitHub 31: DL_SIZE_IMPL also dereference addr.
Context:
* 11603 typo in PPC32/MACH-O asm
* support for CYGWIN
Core:
* In symbol demangling tools, added support for gabi++ ABI implementation used in Android NDK.
* Added a new enable_if_has_type tool for performing SFINAE checks for presence of a nested type.
more...
New Libraries
Convert:
An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework, from Vladimir Batov.
Coroutine2:
(C++14) Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke.
Updated Libraries...
* New Libraries:
- Endian: Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.
- Sort: Includes spreadsort, a general-case hybrid radix sort that is faster than O(n*log(n))
* Updated Libraries:
build on OpenBSD 5.6/sparc64 at the moment. However, the boost-*
packages build quite well with the system gcc:
# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc64-unknown-openbsd5.6/4.2.1/specs
Target: sparc64-unknown-openbsd5.6
Configured with: OpenBSD/sparc64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070719
# pkg_info | grep boost
boost-headers-1.56.0 Boost is a set of free, peer-reviewed, C++ libraries. The emphasis is on
boost-jam-1.56.0 Boost is a set of free, peer-reviewed, C++ libraries. The emphasis is on
Updated Libraries
Any:
RTTI is not required any more (TypeIndex library is used for RTTI emulation)
Fixed 8958
Asio:
Fixed the kqueue reactor so that it works on FreeBSD.
Fixed an issue in the kqueue reactor which resulted in spinning when using serial ports on Mac OS.
Fixed kqueue reactor support for read-only file descriptors.
Fixed a compile error when using the /dev/poll reactor.
Changed the Windows backend to use WSASocketW, as WSASocketA has been deprecated.
Fixed some warnings reported by Visual C++ 2013.
Fixed integer type used in the WinRT version of the byte-order conversion functions.
Changed documentation to indicate that use_future and spawn() are not made available when including the asio.hpp convenience header.
Explicitly marked asio::strand as deprecated. Use asio::io_service::strand instead.
Circular Buffer:
Fixed some warnings and move_if_noexcept from Boost.Move is used
Config:
BOOST_HAS_PRAGMA_DETECT_MISMATCH macro was added
Container:
Added support for initializer_list.
Fixed double destruction bugs in vector and backward expansion capable allocators.
Coroutine:
optionally register stacks with valgrind
10386 MSVC link error in asymmetric_coroutine.hpp: symbol already defined
10536 call to 'begin(...pull_coroutine< R > & c)' is ambiguous
Flyweight:
Added serialization support via Boost Serialization.
flyweight default constructor was made explicit in Boost 1.56, which introduces a regression in some initialization scenarios. The former non-explicit default constructor has been restored
More...
Modularization
Boost version control has migrated to a system using git submodules. This shouldn't make too much of a difference to users, although the directory structure is now a bit different.
Parts of some libraries have been moved into different modules, and several new modules have been extracted from existing code. All header paths should remain the same. The new modules are:
Assert:
Customizable assert macros. Maintained by Peter Dimov.
Core:
Core utilities used by other libraries, with minimal dependencies. Maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev.
Lexical_Cast:
General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.
Throw_Exception:
A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries, from Emil Dotchevski.
Winapi:
Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost use.
New Libraries
Align:
Memory alignment functions, allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.
Type_Index:
Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony Polukhin.
Support was removed from Config for some very old versions of compilers. The new minimum requirements are:
Digitial Mars 8.41
GCC 3.3
Intel 6.0
Visual C++ 7.1
Other compilers are currently unchanged, but we are considering removing support for some other old compilers. Candidates for removal are:
Metroworks C++ (i.e. codewarrior)
SunPro 5.7 and earlier
Borland C++ Builder 2006 (5.82) and earlier
If you're using any of these, please let us know on the mailing lists. We will take into account any feedback received before making a decision.
New Libraries:
Atomic:
C++11-style atomic<>, from Helge Bahmann, maintained by Tim Blechmann.
Coroutine:
Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke.
Lockfree:
Lockfree data structures, from Tim Blechmann.
Multiprecision:
Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic from John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos.
Odeint:
Solving ordinary differential equations, from Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky.
News
This release contains a fix for ticket 7743, in Boost.Locale. For more details, see the security notice.
More info http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_53_0.html
which is considered a security problem
bump PKGREV for the affected header, didn't check yet where this
header is compiled into
(boost-1.53 is out, just added the patch for a possible pullup)
