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• Decimal Goes Back to Review

  The Decimal library is re‑entering Boost review (Oct 6‑15). Updates include renamed types/headers, simplified constructors, IEEE‑754 rounding, Antora docs, fmt and CMake support, and resolved review issues; hardware decimal and CUDA support are planned.

  09/10/2025 Link #Decimal

  

  Matt Borland Boost Member for 3 years Author Library Author
• Levelling up Boost.Redis

  Per‑operation cancellation via asio::cancel_after is added in Boost.Redis 1.90, together with custom startup commands replacing HELLO, Valkey support, race‑free cancellation handling, and upcoming Sentinel and health‑check enhancements.

  07/10/2025 Link #Redis

  

  Rubén Pérez Boost Member for 3 years Author Commits Master
• Bulk operations in Boost.Bloom

  Bulk insertion and lookup are added to Boost.Bloom in Boost 1.90; position calculations are prefetched and lookup uses a bit‑mask with std::countr_zero to minimise branches, yielding speedups of up to three‑fold depending on filter size and parameters.

  04/10/2025 Link #Bloom

  

  Joaquín M López Muñoz Boost Member for 3 years Author Commits Master
• Implementation of Nix functional package manager

  The implementation of Nix functional package manager from nixos.org relies on Boost libraries Container, Context, Coroutine, Core, Format, LexicalCast, Unordered and URL. https://nixos.org/ https://github.com/NixOS/nix https://www.boost.org/

  23/09/2025 News #URL

  

  Joaquín M López Muñoz Boost Member for 3 years Author Commits Master

  
• How to Be an Effective Boost Review Manager by Arnaud Becheler

  15/09/2025 News

  

  Robert Beeston Boost Member for 2 years

  
• Boost.SQLite proposal results

  Boost.SQLite proposal from Klemens Morgenstern has been rejected. The author is encouraged to resubmit after addressing the issues identified in the review. Thanks to Review Manager Mohammad Nejati. Repo: https://github.com/klemens-morgenstern/sqlite Docs: https://klemens.dev/sqlite Review results: https://lists.boost.org/archives/list/boost@lists.boost.org/thread/J74OTT6TZ5W6ZHC....PPBGM6WW54PBFNR/

  13/09/2025 News

  

  Robert Beeston Boost Member for 2 years
• Improving libraries through Boost review process: the case of OpenMethod

  After years of developing YOMM2, a C++ open multi-method library, a Boost author endorsed it and a formal review was conducted. Feedback led to redesigns and an opt‑in feature. The library was accepted, renamed Boost.OpenMethod, and slated for Boost 1.90.0.

  04/09/2025 Blog #OpenMethod

  

  Jean-Louis Leroy Contributor Commits Master
• Re-review of Boost.SQLlite

  The official re-review of Klemens Morgenstern's Boost.SQLite proposal runs from Aug 25 to Sep 3. Mohammad Nejati manages the re-review. Repo: https://github.com/klemens-morgenstern/sqlite Docs: https://klemens.dev/sqlite/ Participate: https://lists.boost.org/archives/list/boost@lists.boost.org/thread/FK4NIN2J6JHHQ6X....F7DGOQV4Q43MNYX/

  25/08/2025 News

  

  Robert Beeston Boost Member for 2 years
• New Library for 1.89 - Boost.Bloom

  Boost.Bloom is a header-only C++ library for efficient probabilistic set membership testing. It allows you to check whether an element might be in a set, with minimal memory overhead and no false negatives, ideal for high-throughput scenarios like caching, deduplication, and indexing. The filter is highly space-efficient, and can dramatically reduce the cost of negative lookups in systems where accessing the full data set is expensive. Repo: https://github.com/boostorg/bloom Docs: https://boost.org/libs/bloom

  15/08/2025 News #Bloom

  

  Robert Beeston Boost Member for 2 years

  
• Boost 1.89 Released!

  With the 1.89 release there is one new library and 28 updates to existing libraries, ready for download! https://www.boost.org/releases/1.89.0/

  15/08/2025 News

  

  Robert Beeston Boost Member for 2 years