[Boost-users] [1.40.0] Beta 1 available

[Beman Dawes]

Boost release 1.40.0 beta 1 is available from SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/

This release contains no new libraries, but contains numerous bug fixes
for existing libraries.

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There are three known issues with beta 1:

* boost/detail/scoped_enum_emulation.hpp, used by Boost.Filesystem, has
a name conflict (enum_t) with Unix header rpc/types.h. Fixed in trunk,
but not yet merged into the release.

* Boost.Python has fixes in trunk not yet merged into to the release.

* Boost.Signals has has fixes in trunk not yet merged into to the release.

These issues will be resolved for the final 1.40.0 release.

Other than these three known issues, please report any problems with the
beta on the developers or users mailing lists.

Unless unexpected problems arise, the plan is to ship the final 1.40.0
release in a week to ten days.

Thanks,

--The Boost release team

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[Ingolf Steinbach]

2009/8/15 Beman Dawes <bda...@acm.org>:

> 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?

2. Could you please update the calendar on
http://www.boost.org/development/index.html with the new expected
dates?

Thank you (also to the other Boost developers) for your effort
invested in this outstanding product.

Ingolf

[Vladimir Prus]

Ingolf Steinbach wrote:

> 2009/8/15 Beman Dawes <bda...@acm.org>:
>> 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

[Roman Shmelev]

Question!

I've looked at http://beta.boost.org/users/news/version_1_40_0
and there is nothing about ASIO.
There were some errors in it, appeared in 1.39.
Were the fixes applied to 1.40?

> All the changes can be found at http://beta.boost.org.