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March 2026

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Farewell to Wowbagger - End of an Era for boost.org
by René Ferdinand Rivera Morell 18 Mar '26

18 Mar '26

Dear Boost developers and community, On behalf of the Fiscal Sponsorship Committee, I'm writing today with a mix of gratitude and nostalgia to share some news: after 15 years of faithful, but rocky, service, wowbagger - the server that hosted boost.org, lists.boost.org, and subversion - is being mothballed. For many of us, it was simply there - one of those invisible pillars that kept our community connected and our work accessible to the world. It deserves a proper send-off. What happened: Rackspace recently notified customers that pricing on their legacy cloud platform is increasing significantly - effectively doubling - as they wind down the previous generation of cloud servers in favor of their next-generation platform. Migration is not automatic. After consulting with Marshall and others, we made the decision to terminate our Rackspace instances rather than absorb the increased costs or undertake a manual migration to a platform we no longer need. What this means: We (i.e. Sam Darwin) have stopped wowbagger for now. File-level backups and disk snapshots are in hand. After another week, the server will be deleted. This is purely a housekeeping matter - boost.org and lists.boost.org are already running on new, upgraded hardware and have been for some time. The old machine had been kept around as a reference for comparing web pages between the old and new sites, but the Rackspace pricing change simply accelerates a retirement that was already overdue. Nothing changes for us. The website and mailing lists continue to operate normally on their new home. Still, we wanted to take a moment to honor wowbagger's long run. 15 years is a remarkable tenure for any server, and this one carried the public face of Boost for all of that time. To everyone who set it up, maintained it, patched it at odd hours, and kept it humming along - thank you. Your work mattered more than most people ever realized. Rest well, wowbagger. You've earned it. Warm regards, Boost Fiscal Sponsorship Committee (Ion Gaztañaga, Joaquín M López Muñoz, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell)

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Boost 1.90.1 beta 1 released
by Marshall Clow 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Boost release 1.91.0 beta 1 is now available at: https://archives.boost.io/beta/1.91.0.beta1/source/ The SHA256 checksums are: b8e78a226d2c0bd6ad4346254988dc2af15c0ae569d974e4da09e7dd0f338980 boost_1_91_0_b1.zip d1eb15102b3379bff874894dd0c39d25a85c9c41147a2dd25215602b911125db boost_1_91_0_b1.tar.bz2 866a39f4b6b1591c04bbb7d9c70ed241a794162512df0fa2ef79374b774354a3 boost_1_91_0_b1.7z 1194fb011943b4425cc6e15f3ee7272ae9c8331938c7d1bac8767850463c2e84 boost_1_91_0_b1.tar.gz Please try the beta and report any problems you encounter. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release. -- The release managers

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