On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:29 PM Michael Caisse via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The release candidates for the 1.71.0 release are now available at:
<https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.71.0/source/>

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

1b3949ffddf56129141032542523920034f2e69775fb9332a52ba37c548dbf35
boost_1_71_0_rc2.7z

d73a8da01e8bf8c7eda40b4c84915071a8c8a0df4a6734537ddde4a8580524ee
boost_1_71_0_rc2.tar.bz2

96b34f7468f26a141f6020efb813f1a2f3dfb9797ecf76a7d7cbd843cc95f5bd
boost_1_71_0_rc2.tar.gz

85a94ac71c28e59cf97a96714e4c58a18550c227ac8b0388c260d6c717e47a69
boost_1_71_0_rc2.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.

Looks good on Windows/Visual Studio.  Full build logs can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/teeks99/928e341906653198186ae5c75aad25ca

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