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Doc Previews Revisited Q4 2024Recent Q4 2024 work is summarized, noting Jenkins migration to Multibranch Pipelines, Boost website and CDN upgrades, release‑tooling and CI pipeline enhancements, Mailman migration automation, and benchmark/CI environment updates.
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Another New Library UnderwayTwo Boost libraries are reported: an IEEE‑754 decimal floating‑point library review after performance <format> enhancements; and a cryptography library built with clang‑20 hardening, implementing primitives and targeting FIPS‑140‑3 certification and TLS support.
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Boost.MySQL 1.87 and the new Boost citizensIn Boost.MySQL 1.87, the type‑erased any_connection, with_params for one‑off queries, built‑in diagnostics, and a connection‑pool API are introduced, extensive async‑oriented documentation is updated, and MQTT5 and Hash2 libraries are added to Boost.
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New container in Boost.PolyCollection, additions to Boost.Mp11 and moreCI support added for several Boost libraries; a boost::variant_collection groups same‑type elements; Boost.Mp11 adds mp_lambda and faster mp_is_set; documentation URLs modernized; sponsorship work done.
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Boost C++ Libraries and Fiscal SponsorshipA formal review was held, resulting in the selection of the C++ Alliance as fiscal sponsor and the creation of a Fiscal Sponsorship Committee to manage Boost assets, with three initial members appointed.
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Boost.Http.Proto Project HighlightsRecent Boost.Http.Proto work includes a chained_sequence abstraction that merges split buffers for chunked parsing, optional gzip/deflate support via a Zlib interface, and a coroutine client handling Accept‑Encoding, redirects and streaming. Boost.Beast updates add trailer field parsing, error‑code overloads, removal of a skip variable for faster CRLF handling, and forward‑declared headers.
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Cloud and Infrastructure Update Q3 2024Boost 1.86.0 was released with Fastly CDN support; release scripts, Docker images, and AWS S3 uploads were improved. Build docs, site outage handling, local dev bootstrap, Xapian search, CI pipelines, Terraform runners, and billing/analytics were updated.
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Boost MySQL 1.87 new featuresBoost.MySQL 1.87 adds with_params for concise client‑side SQL, with_diagnostics for async error info, support for asio cancellation tokens, improved thread‑safe connection_pool, pydocca documentation migration, and modular Boost integration.
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Peter Turcan Q2 2024 StatusVarious documentation updates are reported, including new FAQ sections on post‑release engagement and non‑C++ language interfacing, revisions to the contributor and formal review guides, added development advice, policy updates, and a list of recent posts.
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