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October 10, 2002 - Version 1.29.0
- Date-Time
Library added - Dates, times, leap seconds, infinity,
and more, from Jeff Garland.
- Dynamic
Bitset added - A runtime sized version of the
std::bitset class from Jeremy Siek and Chuck
Allison.
- Format Library
added - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from
Samuel Krempp.
- Function
Library: Major syntactic changes have been made. Some
old syntax and little-used features have been deprecated
(and will be removed shortly), and the syntax for the
boost::function class template has been
greatly improved on conforming compilers. Please see the compatibility
note for more information.
- Multi-array
Library added - Multidimensional containers and
adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron
Garcia.
- Preprocessor
Library: Major upgrade, from Paul Mensonides.
- Python
Library - Version 2 is released, from Dave
Abrahams and others. This is a major rewrite which
works on many more compilers and platforms, with a
completely new interface and lots of new
features. Boost.Python v2 requires Python 2.2 or
later.
- Signals
Library added - Managed signals & slots callback
implementation, from Doug Gregor.
- Test Library:
Major new version, including full unit test capabilities, from Gennadiy Rozental.
- uBLAS
Library added - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed
and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias
Koch.
May 15, 2002 - Version 1.28.0
February 5, 2002 - Version 1.27.0
- Python
Library: Scott Snyder contributed inplace operator
support.
- Integer Library:
Daryle Walker contributed enhancements to the type selection templates,
and added new compile-time bit mask, binary logarithm,
and extrema
templates.
- Function
Library: user may request that
boost::function objects store a reference to a
function object target instead of a copy, using ref. Stateless
objects are optimized so that they require no dynamic
storage.
- Quaternions: added
support for GCC 2.95.x.
- Octonions:
added support for GCC 2.95.x.
- Smart Pointers
Library: Peter Dimov contributed a new implementation
that fixes some bugs and adds some features including thread
safety when manipulating the use count, custom delete
functions, a new weak_ptr, and shared_static_cast
and shared_dynamic_cast.
- Preprocessor
Library: changed macro prefix from BOOST_PREPROCESSOR
to BOOST_PP, added support for list data
structure manipulation, added examples, made library
ANSI C friendly, added generalized repetition
and iteration
primitives, improved reference manual.
- Threads
Library: Mac Carbon implementation contributed by Mac
Murrett.
- Minor fixes to many libraries.
November 30, 2001 - Version 1.26.0
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