Re: [boost] [1.54.0] Release notes

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.54.0] Release notes
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-25 07:35:43

>> What are LCD and GCM? Google seems to indicate that those are usually 
>> typos for GCD and LCM. If
> they
>> are not, expanding the acronyms would help.
>
> Ah yes - guilty as charged - Dyslexia Rules KO  :-(
>
> Integer Utilities (Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple)

So the revised, take 3 version(!) is:

* Major reorganization to incorporate other Boost.Math like Integer 
Utilities Integer Utilities (Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common 
Multiple), quaternions and octonions.  Making new chapter headings.
* Added many references to Boost.Multiprecision and `cpp_dec_float_50` as an 
example of a User-defined Type (UDT).
* Added Clang to list of supported compilers.
* Fixed constants to use a thread-safe cache of computed values when used at 
arbitrary precision.
* Added finding zeros of Bessel functions `cyl_bessel_j_zero`, 
`cyl_neumann_zero`, `airy_ai_zero` and `airy_bi_zero`(by Christopher 
Kormanyos).
* More accuracy improvements to the Bessel J and Y functions from Rocco 
Romeo.
* Fixed nasty cyclic dependency bug that caused some headers to not compile 
[@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7999 #7999].
* Fixed bug in tgamma that caused spurious overflow for arguments between 
142.5 and 143.
* Fixed bug in raise_rounding_error that caused it to return an incorrect 
result when throwing an exception is turned off 
[@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7905 #7905].
* Added minimal __float128 support.
* Fixed bug in edge-cases of poisson quantile 
[@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8308 #8308].
* Adjusted heuristics used in Halley iteration to cope with inverting the 
incomplete beta in tricky regions
where the derivative is flatlining.  Example is computing the quantile of 
the Fisher F distribution for probabilities
smaller than machine epsilon.  See ticket 
[@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8314 #8314].

John.