On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:22 AM Tom Kent <lists@teeks99.com> wrote:


On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:43 PM Michael Caisse via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Boost release 1.71.0 beta 1 is now available at:

<https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.71.0.beta1.rc1/source/>

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:


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boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.7z

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boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.tar.bz2

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boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.tar.gz

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boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.zip


For details of what's in the release, see
<http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_71_0.html>.

Note: Having some trouble getting the web page updated... check back
with it soon.

Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you
encounter.

Thanks,

-- The Boost Release Team

The directory is "RC1", is this the usual pre-beta RC series that we usually go through, or did the release team skip RC announcements this time?


For what its worth, this RC looks good on windows/visual studio.

toolset     arch    compile Link    Execute
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
msvc-14.2   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.2   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.

Tom