Boost C++ Libraries

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Release Notes

Boost 1.38 Release
Boost 1.37 Release
Boost 1.36 Release

Boost 1.38 Release

New treap-based containers: treap, treap_set, treap_multiset.
Corrected compilation bug for Windows-based 64 bit compilers.
Corrected exception-safety bugs in container constructors.
Updated documentation to show rvalue-references functions instead of emulation functions.

Boost 1.37 Release

Intrusive now takes advantage of compilers with variadic templates.
clone_from functions now copy predicates and hash functions of associative containers.
Added incremental hashing to unordered containers via incremental<> option.
Update some function parameters from iterator to const_iterator in containers to keep up with the draft of the next standard.
Added an option to specify include files for intrusive configurable assertion macros.

Boost 1.36 Release

Added linear<> and cache_last<> options to singly linked lists.
Added optimize_multikey<> option to unordered container hooks.
Optimized unordered containers when store_hash option is used in the hook.
Implementation changed to be exception agnostic so that it can be used in environments without exceptions.
Added container_from_iterator function to tree-based containers.