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???, 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.
- Multi-array Library added -
Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from
Ron Garcia.
- 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.
- uBLAS Library added - Basic
linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and
Mathias Koch.
- 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.
- Preprocessor Library: major
upgrade, from Paul Mensonides.
- Test Library: major upgrade,
including full unit test capabilities, from Gennadiy Rozental.
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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