On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:44 PM Marshall Clow via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The release candidates for the 1.68.0 release are now available at:

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
af05616f71006f97833e130aad886c96136457511ace4b5496d6566e69cbe0ca  boost_1_69_0_rc1.7z
8f32d4617390d1c2d16f26a27ab60d97807b35440d45891fa340fc2648b04406  boost_1_69_0_rc1.tar.bz2
9a2c2819310839ea373f42d69e733c339b4e9a19deab6bfec448281554aa4dbb  boost_1_69_0_rc1.tar.gz
d074bcbcc0501c4917b965fc890e303ee70d8b01ff5712bae4a6c54f2b6b4e52  boost_1_69_0_rc1.zip

As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

Windows/Visual Studio builds look good.

toolset     arch    compile Link    Execute
msvc-8.0    32      X       X       X
msvc-8.0    64      X       X       X
msvc-9.0    32      X       X       X
msvc-9.0    64      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   64      X       X       X

Compile means that the b2 command completed without errors
Link means that visual studio was able to link a sample executable to a library (libboost_thread-vcXXX-mt[-gd]-1_XX.lib) generated
Execute means that the linked program executed without errors.

Full build output can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/teeks99/8249148afc7f7f0fe510842d290639ec

Tom