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During Q3 2026, Joaquín worked on unordered polymorphic collections for Boost.PolyCollection, shipping in Boost 1.93, plus maintenance fixes across Boost.Container and MultiIndex, and Papergate, an AI tool that checks WG21 proposals.

MrDocs now describes its own metadata model, which let a quarter of work go into extensibility: Lua and JavaScript extensions, data-driven generators, macro support, and specializations that move in with their primary template.

Q1 was all about identifying Boost.Graph user community and implementing a community detection algorithm. Q2 has been focusing on making Boost.Graph a comfy place where our community can thrive by exorcising the old legacy shadows that a 30-year-old project inevitably summons.

Since 1998, the Boost community has been building the libraries that power some of the world’s most ambitious technology—from planetary rovers to particle accelerators. Now, we’re ready to share that story with you.

C++ is a working language. It runs the engines and the pipelines and the quiet infrastructure underneath almost everything people depend on, usually without anyone noticing it is there. And for forty years it has grown from the people who use it.

Progress on isomorphic-git: after the pull request “support git commands run in submodules” was merged and released, Antora updated their version of isomorphic-git so the new features are live there also.

boost::container::hub was accepted into Boost.Container after its April review. Joaquín also added C++20 ranges support to Boost.Unordered, fancy pointer support to Boost.MultiIndex, and fixed Boost.ICL for libc++ v22.

The questions changed. For a long time, people asked about MrDocs in the abstract: what formats will it support, how will it handle templates, when will it be ready. Then, gradually, the questions became specific. Jean-Louis Leroy, the author of Boost.OpenMethod, became one of our most active source

We had been putting off the Boost.URL security review for a while. There was always something more urgent. When the review finally happened, it confirmed what we hoped: the core parsing logic held up well.

The rewritten boost::container::deque shipped in 1.90. Leaner container and iterators. Details and benchmarks against libstdc++, libc++ and MSVC STL on my blog: Inside Boost.Container: comparing different deque implementations .

When new developers joined the MrDocs team, we expected the usual ramp-up: learning the codebase, understanding the architecture, and getting comfortable with the review process. What we did not expect was that building and testing the project would be the hardest part.

First some personal news. To keep my coding skills sharp(ish), I updated my simulation of Greek and Persian triremes (rowed war-galleys with big bronze rams) with better graphics (splashy bows, greying sea and skies in strong wind, fire pots to illuminate courses) and some…