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-Boost 1.34.0, the latest version of peer-reviewed, portable C++ 
-libraries, has been released. This release brings five new libraries
-and extensive updates to existing libraries.
-
-New Libraries
-
-    * Foreach Library: 
-        BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a
-        sequence, from Eric Niebler.
-    * Statechart Library: 
-        Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in
-        easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.
-    * TR1 Library: 
-        An implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library
-        Extensions, from John Maddock.
-        This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather
-        it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1
-        implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost
-        Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1. Highlights
-        include: Reference Wrappers, Smart Pointers, result_of,
-        Function Object Binders, Polymorphic function wrappers, Type Traits,
-        Random Number Generators and Distributions, Tuples, Fixed Size Array,
-        Hash Function Objects, Regular Expressions and
-        Complex Number Additional Algorithms.
-    * Typeof Library: 
-        Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.
-    * Xpressive Library: 
-        Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression
-        templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively
-        with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.
-
-Updated Libraries
-
-    * Assign Library:
-          o Support for ptr_map<key,T> via the new function ptr_map_insert()
-          o Support for initialization of Pointer Containers when the containers
-            hold pointers to an abstract base class.
-    * Date_time library:
-          o Support for new US/Canada timezone rules and other bug fixes.
-            See Change History for details.
-    * Filesystem Library: 
-        Major upgrade in preparation for submission to the C++ Standards Committee
-        for TR2. Changes include:
-          o Internationalization, provided by class templates basic_path,
-            basic_filesystem_error, basic_directory_iterator
-            and basic_directory_entry.
-          o Simplification of the path interface by eliminating special constructors
-            to identify native formats.
-          o Rationalization of predicate function design, including the addition of
-            several new functions.
-          o Clearer specification by reference to POSIX, the ISO/IEEE Single Unix
-            Standard, with provisions for Windows and other operating systems.
-          o Preservation of existing user code whenever possible.
-          o More efficient directory iteration.
-          o Addition of a recursive directory iterator.
-    * Function Library: 
-        Boost.Function now implements a small buffer optimization, which can
-        drastically improve the performance when copying or constructing 
-        Boost.Function objects storing small function objects. For instance,
-        bind(&X:foo, &x, _1, _2) requires no heap allocation when placed into
-        a Boost.Function object.
-    * Functional/Hash Library
-          o Use declarations for standard classes, so that the library doesn't
-            need to include all of their headers
-          o Deprecated the <boost/functional/hash/*.hpp> headers.
-          o Add support for the BOOST_HASH_NO_EXTENSIONS macro, which disables
-            the extensions to TR1
-          o Minor improvements to the hash functions for floating point numbers.
-    * Graph Library:
-          o edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching, from Aaron Windsor.
-          o lengauer_tarjan_dominator_tree, from JongSoo Park.
-          o compressed_sparse_row_graph, from Jeremiah Willcock and Douglas Gregor
-            of Indiana University.
-          o sorted_erdos_renyi_iterator, from Jeremiah Willcock
-            of Indiana University.
-          o biconnected_components now supports a visitor and named parameters,
-            from Janusz Piwowarski.
-          o adjacency_matrix now models the Bidirectional Graph concept.
-          o dijkstra_shortest_paths now calls vis.initialize_vertex for each
-            vertex during initialization.
-          o Note: the name of the compiled library for the GraphViz reader has
-            changed to boost_graph (from bgl-viz) to match Boost conventions.
-          o See the complete revision history for more information.
-    * MultiArray Library: 
-        Boost.MultiArray now by default provides range-checking for operator[].
-        Range checking can be disabled by defining the macro BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS
-        before including multi_array.hpp. A bug in multi_array::resize() related
-        to storage orders was fixed.
-    * Multi-index Containers Library:
-          o New random access indices.
-          o Non key-based indices feature new rearrange facilities.
-          o This version also includes a number of optimizations and usage
-            improvements. For a complete list of changes,
-            see the library release notes.
-    * Optional Library:
-          o boost::none_t and boost::none now added to Optional's documentation
-          o Relational operators now directly support arguments of type 'T'
-            and 'none_t'
-          o operator->() now also works with reference types.
-          o Helper functions make_optional(val), make_optional(cond,val)
-            and get_optional_value_or(opt,alternative_value) added.
-          o Constructor taking a boolean condition (as well as a value) added.
-          o Member function get_value_or(alternative_value) added.
-          o Incompatbility bug with mpl::apply<> fixed.
-          o Converting assignment bug with uninitialized lvalues fixed.
-    * Parameter Library:
-          o Every ArgumentPack is now a valid MPL Forward Sequence.
-          o Support for unnamed arguments (those whose keyword is deduced from
-            their types) is added.
-          o Support for named and unnamed template arguments is added.
-          o New overload generation macros solve the forwarding problem directly.
-          o See also the Python library changes, below.
-    * Pointer Container Library:
-          o Support for serialization via Boost.Serialization.
-          o Exceptions can be disabled by defining the macro 
-            BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_EXCEPTIONS before including any header.
-            This macro is defined by default if BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined.
-          o Additional std::auto_ptr<T> overloads added s.t. one can also pass
-            std::auto_ptr<T> instead of only T* arguments to member functions.
-          o transfer() now has weaker requirements s.t. one can transfer objects
-            from ptr_container<Derived> to ptr_container<Base>,
-    * Python Library:
-          o Boost.Python now automatically appends C++ signatures to docstrings.
-            The new docstring_options.hpp header is available to control the
-            content of docstrings.
-          o stl_input_iterator, for turning a Python iterable object into an STL
-            input iterator, from Eric Niebler.
-          o Support for void* conversions is added.
-          o Integrated support for wrapping C++ functions built with the
-            parameter library; keyword names are automatically known to
-            docsstrings.
-          o Enhancements to the API for better embedding support
-            (boost::python::import(), boost::python::exec()
-             and boost::python::exec_file()).
-    * Signals Library: 
-        More improvements to signal invocation performance from Robert Zeh.
-    * Smart Pointers Library:
-          o Allocator support as proposed in N1851 (162 Kb PDF).
-          o pointer_cast and pointer_to_other utilities to allow
-            pointer-independent code, from Ion Gaztanaga.
-    * String Algorithm Library:
-          o lexicographical_compare
-          o join
-          o New comparison predicates is_less, is_not_greater.
-          o Negative indexes support (like Perl) in various algorihtms
-            (*_head/tail, *_nth).
-    * Wave Library:
-          o Wave now correctly recognizes pp-number tokens as mandated by the
-            C++ Standard, which are converted to C++ tokens right before they are
-            returned from the library.
-          o Several new preprocessing hooks have been added. For a complete
-            description please refer to the related documentation page:
-            The Context Policy.
-          o Shared library (dll) support has been added for the generated Wave
-            libraries.
-          o The overall error handling has been improved. It is now possible to
-            recover and continue after an error or a warning was issued.
-          o Support for optional comment and/or full whitespace preservation
-            in the generated output stream has been added.
-          o The Wave library now performs automatic include guard detection to
-            avoid accessing header files more than once, if appropriate.
-          o Full interactive mode has been added to the Wave tool. Now the Wave
-            tool can be used just like Python or Perl for instance to
-            interactively try out your BOOST_PP macros. Additionally it is now
-            possible to load and save the current state of an interactive
-            session (macro tables et.al.).
-          o The overall performance has been improved by upto 40-60%, depending
-            on the concrete files to process.
-          o Support for new pragmas has been added allowing to control certain
-            library features from inside the preprocessed sources (partial
-            output redirection, control of generated whitespace and #line
-            directives).
-          o Optional support for #pragma message "..." has been added.
-          o This version also includes a number of bug fixes and usage
-            improvements. For a complete list of changes, see the libraries
-            change log.
-
-Supported Compilers
-
-  Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and platforms. Since Boost libraries
-  rely on modern C++ features not available in all compilers, not all Boost
-  libraries will work with every compiler. The following compilers and platforms
-  have been extensively tested with Boost, although many other compilers and
-  platforms will work as well. For more information, see the regression test
-  results.
-
-    * Apple GCC 4.0.1 on Mac OS X.
-    * Borland C++ 5.8.2 on Windows.
-    * GNU C++
-          o 3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x on Linux
-          o 4.1.x on Solaris
-          o 3.4.x on Windows
-    * HP aC++ A.06.14.
-    * Intel C++ 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux.
-    * Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9.4 on Windows.
-    * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0, 7.1, 8.0.
-      Note: Boost does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping
-      with Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost
-      headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these warnings,
-      define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE.
-    * Sun Studio 11 on Solaris.
-
-Acknowledgements
-
-  Thomas Witt managed this release.
-
-  A great number of people contributed their time and expertise to make this release
-  possible. Special thanks go to Vladimir Prus for making Boost.Build version 2 a
-  reality, David Abrahams for authoring a new Getting Started guide, Rene Rivera for
-  general build and installation support and Greg D. for answering countless questions.