Re: [Boost-users] [1.40.0] Beta 1 available

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [1.40.0] Beta 1 available
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-17 06:54:29

Ingolf Steinbach wrote:

> 2009/8/15 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
>> Boost release 1.40.0 beta 1 is available from SourceForge:
>> [...]
>> This release contains no new libraries, but contains numerous bug fixes for
>> existing libraries.
> 
> A few questions:
> 
> 1. Are there incompatible changes wrt 1.39? If not: (for the curious)
> what was the rationale for naming it 1.40.0 rather than 1.39.1 if it
> is a bugfix only release?

All the changes can be found at http://beta.boost.org. No single person
knows if they are incompatible, or if there are incompatible changes
not listed there at all.

It's 1.40 because every quarterly release is 1.N+1. In general,
there's no ABI or API stability, so incrementing third number can
be done only when doing true bugfix releases with a small number
of changes, each individually examined. This release is not like
this.

- Volodya