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Hey, it’s Vinnie here again! I have some very exciting news to share with you. The renovated website for Boost that we’ve been working on for far too long is now going into its Public Beta phase!

Greetings! I’m Vinnie Falco, Boost library author, C++ enthusiast, and the founder of The C++ Alliance, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

Since asio added and beast implemented per-operation cancellation, the way timeouts can be implemented in asio code has changed significantly.

Asio introduced the concept of an async_operation, which describes a primary expression that can be invoked with a completion token. In C++20 this is also a language concept.

Boost.url has been released. And it’s awesome .

Some months ago, I was asked how to handle HTTP redirect responses in beast. Characteristically, I took a moment to model how I would do that in my head, waved my hands and kind of explained it and that was that.

This week I got the opportunity to chat with Rob and Jason about the open letters to the C++ committee I wrote on CppCast . The letters propose to expand the scope of the C++ standards work to include the ecosystem of tools and related technologies.

Asio (available standalone and in Boost ) defines a pattern for writing asynchronous operations. There have been a few examples in my blogs of custom composed operations written in terms of several asynchronous operations made available by the library.

It’s been a month of minor maintenance fixes, and a fair amount of support requests via the C++ Alliance Slack workspace .

Last month I took over the maintenance of the Boost Property Tree library.

Last month I took over the maintenance of the Boost Property Tree library.

This is my first entry on the C++ Alliance web site. I am happy to have been invited to join the organization.