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- <p>??? - Version 1.25.0
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- <p>August 19, 2001 - Version 1.24.0
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- Tuples ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
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- <li>Minor fixes to some other libraries.</li>
- <li><a href="tools/build/index.html">Boost Build System</a> added. Preliminary
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- <p>July 6, 2001 - Version 1.23.0
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- <li><a href="libs/any/index.html">Any Library</a> added. Safe, generic
- container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/function/index.html">Function Library</a> added. Function
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- <li><a href="libs/tokenizer/index.htm">Tokenizer Library</a> added. Break a
- string into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/math/special_functions/index.html">Special functions</a>,
- <a href="libs/math/octonion/index.html">octonions</a>,
- <a href="libs/math/quaternion/index.html">quaternions</a> added,
- from Hubert Holin.
- <li><a href="libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm">Smart Pointer Library</a>:
- shared_ptr polymorphic pointers now work on more broken compilers.</li>
- <li><a href="status/cs-aix.html">IBM/Aix</a> Compiler status table contributed
- by Toon Knapen</li>
- <li>Minor fixes to a number of other libraries.</li>
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- <p>May 25, 2001 - Version 1.22.0
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- <li><a href="libs/crc/index.html">CRC Library</a> added. Compute cyclic
- redundancy codes from Daryle Walker.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/graph/doc/index.html">Graph Library</a>: Minor fixes.</li>
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- <li><a href="libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm">Smart Pointer Library</a>: fixed
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- <li><a href="libs/utility/utility.htm">Utility Library</a>: added
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- <p>April 24, 2001 - Version 1.21.2
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- <li><a href="libs/compatibility/index.html">Compatibility Library</a>
- added: Help for non-conforming standard libraries missing CXX headers from Ralf
- Grosse-Kunstleve, and help for missing standard library <limits>
- header from Jens Maurer. (These are unreviewed implementation
- libraries, treated as maintenance steps only.)</li>
- <li><a href="libs/random/index.html">Random Number Library</a>: Split into separate headers, updated documentation, added lagged_fibonacci generator.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/integer/index.htm">Integer Library</a>: Minor portability update.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">Graph Library</a>: Changed algorithm interfaces to use named parameters technique. Added graph isomorphism algorithm.</li>
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- <li> Minor portability fixes in several other libraries.</li>
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- <p>March 14, 2001 - Version 1.21.1</p>
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- <li><a href="libs/graph/doc/index.html">Graph Library</a>: Minor docs fixes.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/python/doc/index.html">Python Library</a>: Minor docs fixes.</li>
- <li><a href="libs/regex/index.htm">Regex Library</a>: Minor portability fixes.</li>
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- <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B %Y" startspan -->26 September 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39500" --></p>
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