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mailman upgrade
by Sam Darwin 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Hi, As discussed earlier on the developer list, mailman2 is end-of-life and no longer supported. We are planning to upgrade the mailing lists from mailman2 to mailman3. This will be done in-place, importing the previous archives and user list into a mm3 instance hosted at the same URL lists.boost.org. An example staging instance can be viewed at https://lists.preview.boost.org Mailman3 is more complex than Mailman2 with multiple components including "web" and "core". After the upgrade your account should still exist in the core backend, which means you will continue to receive messages and be able to send emails. However, to interact with the web frontend (optional) you must register an account using the same email address at https://lists.boost.org. Registering in the web portal will require setting up a new password, and confirming the email address. Be sure to use your existing email from before. Any previous passwords will not be valid. If you don't create an account in the web UI, your email subscriptions to the lists continue. But you can't yet log in to configure the account. No action is needed right now. Wait until after the upgrade. All previous messages will be imported to the new system. Additionally, the earlier archives in the form of static plain html pages will be available at https://listarchives.boost.org/ The imported lists are Boost, Boost Announce, and Boost Users. Activity on any other lists is remarkably low such as 1-2 emails per year. Please migrate other discussions to Github Issues, Slack, or one of the main mailing lists. Let us know any concerns. Report issues in the github repository cppalliance/boost-mailman. The tentative schedule is Tuesday June 17. Plan on not using the list for one day, or perhaps a few days. Roll back to mailman2 if something unusual is discovered soon after going live. Chat out-of-band in cpplang slack boost channel.

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[boost] [openmethod] Peer review conclusion
by Дмитрий Архипов 28 May '25

28 May '25

Dear Boost community, the formal review of candidate Boost.OpenMethod has taken place between 28th of April and May 7th. I have received 6 reviews in total. Four of the reviews recommended unconditional, and 1 conditional acceptance. One reviewer recommended to reject the library. The reviews came from: - Joaquin M López Muñoz, - Christian Mazakas, - Ruben Perez, - Yannick Le Goc, - Klemens Morgenstern, - Andrzej Krzemienski. Also, several people have given insightful comments but did not provide a review. I would like to thank all of the people who took their time to write reviews or participate in the discussions. Your effort was very important and valuable. The outcome of the review is that Boost.OpenMethod is ACCEPTED with some CONDITIONS. 1. The convenience header <boost/openmethod.hpp> should be changed to not introduce identifiers to the global namespace. Reviewers suggested several alternatives to that: either moving those global entities into an alternative header, or put them into a dedicated namespace which users could use via using namespace. 2. The library should not choose an arbitrary ambiguous overrider. Virtually all reviewers have expressed strong dislike for this behaviour. The default should be an error. More lax overrider selection may be provided as an option. 3. The library's documentation should be improved in several areas: * The concepts used by the documentation should be explained early on and more thoroughly. * The library should not claim to implement N2216, as it diverges from it significantly. Instead it may remark on being inspired by it. * Better explain potential platform-specific limitations of certain use cases (runtime loading of shared libraries) and error conditions. In addition, I want to discuss several criticisms that have been expressed during the review. One is that essentially the library doesn't solve a problem that is worth solving. That is, you never need an open set of types combined with an open set of operations. I believe that 10 years of library's use should mostly dispel such concerns. I personally have also encountered such a situation in my practice. The second criticism is that the flexibility of the library comes with higher chance of programmer error, as some usual safe guards go out the window. I can attest that in "many types, many operations" situations alternative approaches are comparably error-prone. It seems to me that this is largely inherent to the complexity of the problem. My advice to the author is to highlight dangerous situations, so that potential users can better evaluate if the added flexibility is worth it. Thanks to Jean-Louis Leroy for submitting this library to Boost. And thanks again to the reviewers and everyone who provided feedback, who ultimately made this review possible.

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[boost] [OpenMethod] Boost.OpenMethod review scheduled
by Дмитрий Архипов 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

The review for the proposed Boost.OpenMethod library by Jean-Louis Leroy is scheduled to take place from April 28 to May 07. OpenMethods solve the Expression Problem by making it possible to define free virtual functions, i.e. virtual functions that exist outside of a class The library repository is here: https://github.com/jll63/Boost.OpenMethod. The documentation is here: https://jll63.github.io/Boost.OpenMethod.

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[release] Boost 1.88.0
by Marshall Clow 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Release 1.88.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available. These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. The release contains two new libraries: * Hash2: An extensible hashing framework, from Peter Dimov and Christian Mazakas. * MQTT5: MQTT5 client library built on top of Boost.Asio, from Ivica Siladić, Bruno Iljazović, and Korina Šimičević. as well as numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries. For details, including download links, see <http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1.88.0> You can also download directly from: <https://archives.boost.io/release/1.88.0/source/> To install this release on your system, see <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html> Thanks to everyone who participated in this release. -- The Boost Release Team Marshall Clow, Glen Fernandes, Ion Ion Gaztañaga

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release] Boost 1.88.0 beta 1 released
by Marshall Clow 15 Mar '25

15 Mar '25

Boost release 1.88.0 beta 1 is now available at: https://archives.boost.io/beta/1.88.0.beta1/source/ The SHA256 checksums are: bc4948bc664fde0c2142badae2679a42124b464dc58019250afe0ef57fd7763e boost_1_88_0_rc1.zip 3c334a9a743b68a35452b0223be8932fb39f26a6938382f9b9e625c4df99602c boost_1_88_0_rc1.tar.gz 9e42c0611500151d795d66a07ef0a21036c02d24678e2e887caf6d97fcbc25ca boost_1_88_0_rc1.tar.bz2 7faf60c4cb12ee90270e41716cf3735a8739016d7346983ce9f5e899e510b26d boost_1_88_0_rc1.7z Release notes (still need updates): https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_88_0.html Please try the beta and report any problems you encounter. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release. -- Boost Release Team

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[release] Boost 1.87.0
by Marshall Clow 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

Release 1.87.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available. These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. This release contains two new libraries: * Boost.Parser: A framework for building parsers, from Zach Laine. The release also contains numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries. For details, including download links, see <http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1.87.0> You can also download directly from: <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.87.0/> To install this release on your system, see <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html> Thanks to everyone who participated in this release. -- The Boost Release Team Marshall Clow, Glen Fernandes, Ion Gaztañaga

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[release] Boost 1.87.0 beta 1 released
by Marshall Clow 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

Boost release 1.86.0 beta 1 is now available at: https://archives.boost.io/beta/1.87.0.beta1/source/ The SHA256 checksums are: 2e7cdf358526e8937b36b93fc96c501b8d6a0c8436e95e65440de31c48ec3086 boost_1_87_0_b1.tar.bz2 98a86940c13509dfd0288a3075280f46a76c9a3faeb8a9bf49ca7f9e6a271995 boost_1_87_0_b1.tar.gz 2ca4c019d0c96fd160dec5292a7a6bfcf7b4e592cd238a2207e17084f8021d08 boost_1_87_0_b1.zip 5ea32facd963dbb79ceb5bda7ef7546017ea5da854158f8933bbad74d6bbe622 boost_1_87_0_b1.7z This is slightly different than the RC3. Someone committed a documentation fix to master after we had started the release process, and rather than re-do the whole thing (and re-tag everything), we decided to go with the release that we prepared. The person who did this has been informed of the problems that he caused, and I don’t think he’ll do it again. Release notes (still need updates): https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_87_x.html Please try the beta and report any problems you encounter. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release. -- Boost Release Team

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Scheduled review of Decimal library
by Mateusz Loskot 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Folks, On behalf of the Review Wizards Team, formal review of proposed Decimal library has now been scheduled: - https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/878 The review details should be soon displayed on the website - https://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html Best regards, Mateusz Loskot

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Scheduled review of SQLite library
by Mateusz Loskot 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Folks, On behalf of the Review Wizards Team, formal review of proposed SQLite library has now been scheduled: - https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/877 The review details should be soon displayed on the website - https://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html Best regards, Mateusz Loskot

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Scheduled review of MQTT library
by Mateusz Loskot 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

Folks, On behalf of the Review Wizards Team, formal review of proposed MQTT library has now been scheduled: - https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/877 The review details should be soon displayed on the website - https://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html Best regards, Mateusz Loskot

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