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Ready, set, Redis!Boost.Redis is co‑maintained with an FSM redesign that improves testability, provides UNIX‑socket support, logging and updated docs. Boost.MySQL auth is enhanced, Boost.Postgres is started, OpenMethod and Bloom are reviewed, and test framework is extended.
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Bringing B2-Style Test Granularity to CMakeB2‑style granularity is added to Boost’s CMake integration by building the test executable, post‑build extracting test names via a listing flag, generating a .cmake file with individual add_test entries, and including it with TEST_INCLUDE_FILES, enabling separate reporting and selective runs.
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Boost.Bloom ready for shipping in Boost 1.89Boost.Bloom was accepted and will ship in Boost 1.89 (Aug 2025). Traits and functions were added to several libraries (ContainerHash, Unordered, MultiIndex, Flyweight, PolyCollection) and CI, documentation, and community promotion were improved.
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New Boost Tutorials OnlineRichard Thomson from the Utah C++ Programmers Group has built a treasure trove of tutorials on assorted Boost libraries! Check it out at:
www.youtube.com/play....Yam4ucdMMcKJky8UHbhC
Utah C++ Programmers Group:
https://www.meetup.com/utah-cpp-programmers/
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Boost presence at WG21 meeting in Sofia, BulgariaThe C++ Alliance, one of the sponsors of the recent WG21 meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, has brought some Boost posters and merchandise to the event. It's been a nice opportunity to share with the commitee members information on some of the newest Boost libraries and the launch of our new website. On the standardization front, the long-awaited inclusion of reflection in C++26 has been making the rounds across the community.
Try to guess who's who in the pictures below! Cheers!
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Some Thoughts on DocumentationThe documentation pipeline for Boost.JSON was migrated from Doxygen‑generated Quickbook to AsciiDoc using a Python conversion tool and a multipage Asciidoctor plugin, restructuring overload comments and planning replacement of Doxygen with Mr.Docs.
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Cloud and Infrastructure Update Q1 2025Server OSes were upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 with Ansible scripts; CI pipelines were tweaked to suppress lcov errors, refresh Jenkins jobs, and test HPA autoscaling. Fixes covered boost website deployment, IBM Cloud Drone billing, and JSON benchmark alerts.
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Moving Boost forward: Asio, coroutines, and maybe even modulesBoost updates include coroutine-based Asio usage, a prototype for native C++20 module support with CMake integration, performance benchmarks and enhancements for Boost.MySQL, Boost.Decimal integration, and plans for a Postgres library.
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New Boost library proposal and a talk on how to make C++ ranges fasterDuring Q1 2025, a Boost Bloom filter library proposal was prepared for review, a conference talk on speeding C++ ranges with transrangers was delivered, Boost.Unordered documentation was migrated to Antora, and support and promotion were provided.
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Robert's Q1 2025 UpdateRefreshes to documentation styling, an enhanced release report highlighting contributors and community activity, and sponsorship of the June 2025 WG21 standards meeting in Sofia, with promotional t‑shirts, are reported.
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