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In 2024, the MrDocs project was a fragile prototype . It documented Boost.URL, but the CLI , configuration , and build process were unstable. Most users could not run it without direct help from the core group. That unstable baseline is the starting point for this report.

Modern C++ codebases — from browsers to GPU frameworks — rely heavily on templates, and that often means massive abstract syntax trees. Even small inefficiencies in Clang’s AST representation can add up to noticeable compile-time overhead.

Back in April my former colleague Christian Mazakas has announced his work on registry of nightly Boost packages for vcpkg . That same month Conan developers have introduced a new feature that significantly simplified providing of an alternative Conan package source.

In a past life I worked in the computer journalism business, and learnt over time what attracts people to read a page. Lot’s of things are important, the font used, the spacing between letters and lines and paragraphs, even the width of a column of text is super-important for…

Over the past three months, I’ve been immersed in a deep and wide-ranging overhaul of the Boost.DynamicBitset library. What started as a few targeted improvements quickly evolved into a full-scale modernization effort—touching everything from the underlying container to iterator…

Fixed an internal compile error that manifested with newer compilers implementing P0522R0 ( PR#23 ). Reviewed PR#22 .

I’ve really come to appreciate Boost.Redis design. With only three asynchronous primitives it exposes all the power of Redis, with features like automatic pipelining that make it pretty unique.

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.

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).

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.

We continue to make exciting progress developing new libraries for inclusion in Boost, and expanding those already available.

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.