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December 2024

Dec. 4, 2024: Boost 1.87.0 closed

Release closed for all changes

Dec. 11, 2024: Boost 1.87.0 release

Release posted for download.

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Math

Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: Floating Point Utilities, Specific Width Floating Point Types, Mathematical Constants, Statistical Distributions, Special Functions, Root Finding and Function Minimization, Polynomials and Rational Functions, Interpolation, and Numerical Integration and Differentiation. Many of these features are templated to support both built-in, and extended width types (e.g. Boost.Multiprecision)

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Boost 1.85.0 closed for all changes on April 3rd

Posted on Mar 17th, 2024 by Louis Tatta

Boost 1.85.0 closed for all changes
When Wednesday, Apr 3, 2024

The 1.85.0 release will close for major changes TOMORROW

Posted on Feb 28th, 2024 by Louis Tatta

Calendar here:
https://www.boost.org/development/

Next deadline:
The master branch will close for the beta next Wednesday.

— The release managers

Review of Parser library begins today

Posted on Feb 19th, 2024 by Louis Tatta

The review of Zach Laine’s proposed Boost.Parser library begins today and will end on February 28th.

From the introduction page of the documentation:

Boost.Parser is a parser combinator library. That is, it consists of a set of low-level primitive parsers, and operations that can be used to combine those parsers into more complicated parsers.

There are primitive parsers that parse epsilon (the empty string), chars, ints, floats, etc.

There are operations which combine parsers to create new parsers.…