We are excited to announce that the Decimal (https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal) library is going back to review for inclusion in Boost from 06 to 15 October. In preparation for this we have made quite a few changes since the indeterminate end of the first review about 9 months ago: Breaking Changes: Based on bitwise comparisons with other similar libraries and database software, we have changed the internal encoding of our IEEE 754-compliant types We spent about 3 months optimizing...

Doc Previews and Doc Builds The isomorphic-git improvements are an ongoing saga. (As a reminder, isomorphic-git is a dependency and component of Antora, which can’t parse submodules while boost relies heavily on submodules). This quarter I coded full submodule support into isomorphic-git and then submitted a PR with 150 files modified. An issue is that the library is suffering from a general lack of maintainers, it’s stuck on Nodejs 14 from 5 years ago, and uses many out-of-date packages. Th...

How Boost.RunTimeServices Emerged from Boost.HTTP.Proto Development During the development of the Boost.HTTP.Proto library, we recognized the need for a flexible mechanism to install and access optional services at runtime without requiring prior knowledge of their specific implementations. For example, building a library with optional support for zlib and Brotli compression, even if those libraries weren’t installed on the user’s machine. This challenge led to the creation of Boost.RunTimeS...

We continue to make exciting progress developing new libraries for inclusion in Boost, and expanding those already available. New Libraries int128 Int128 (https://github.com/cppalliance/int128) is a small library that has more or less fallen out of work on Decimal. It provides two type: an unsigned 128-bit integer and a signed 128-bit integer. Since my last post the library should now be ready for beta, and subsequently production use. Much effort was put into optimizing every operation on...

Mailman3 Deployment The Boost mailing list has been in place for around 25 years. During at least the last 3 years we have been exploring an upgrade to mailman3 which is a completely new framework based on Django and multiple other components. The new server finally went live in June 2025 at the same URL: https://lists.boost.org. Mail archives going back to 2004 were imported into the new system. Static file copies of all archives are also hosted at listarchives.boost.org. Thanks to some o...