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<h3>December 5, 2005 - Version 1.33.1</h3>
<h4>Updated Libraries</h4>
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<li><span class="library"><a href=
"doc/html/any.html">Any Library</a>:</span> Cast to
reference types introduced in 1.33.0 is now
documented on <code>any_cast</code> documentation
page.</li>
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Don't undef BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET after use.</li>
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<li>The build now assumes Python 2.4 by
default, rather than 2.2</li>
<li>Support Python that's built without Unicode
support</li>
<li>Support for wrapping classes with
overloaded address-of (<code>&amp;</code>)
operators</li>
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Library</a>:</span> Fixed problems under Metrowerks
CodeWarrior on PowerPC (Mac OS X) with inlining on,
GNU GCC on PowerPC 64.</li>
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Library</a>:</span> Fixed the supplied makefiles,
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accessing a chain's components, added
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descriptor devices, fixed memory-mapped files on
Windows, and made minor changes to the
documentation.</li>
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Containers Library</a>:</span> Fixed a problem with
multithreaded code, and other minor changes. Refer
to the library <a href=
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release notes</a> for further details.</li>
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<li>Fixed a problem with the relaxed heap on
x86 Linux (fixes bug in
<tt>dijkstra_shortest_paths</tt>).</li>
<li>Fixed problems with <a href=
"libs/graph/doc/cuthill_mckee_ordering.html"><code>
cuthill_mckee_ordering</code></a> and <a href=
"libs/graph/doc/king_ordering.html"><code>king_ordering</code></a>
producing no results.</li>
<li>Added <tt>color_map</tt> parameter to
<tt>dijkstra_shortest_paths</tt>.</li>
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Library</a>:</span> Fixed problems with the use of
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library</a>:</span> <code>read_write_mutex</code>
has been removed due to problems with
deadlocks.</li>
<li><span class="library"><a href=
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(V1.2.1)</span> Fixed a couple of problems, refer
to the <a href="libs/wave/ChangeLog">change log</a>
for further details.</li>
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<h4>Supported Compilers</h4>
<p>Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and
platforms. Since Boost libraries rely on modern C++
features not available in all compilers, not all
Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The
following compilers and platforms have been
extensively tested with Boost, although many other
compilers and platforms will work as well. For more
information, see the <a href=
"http://www.boost.org/regression/release/user/">regression
test results</a>.</p>
<p><b>New for this release</b>: Support for building
with the newest STLport-5.0 was added. The support
includes building with MinGW Runtime 3.8 plus
STLport-5.0 improved to support wide character
operations. Apple GCC 4.0, HP Tru64 C++, and
Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 are supported platforms. We
have added an experimental autoconf-like
<code>configure</code> script for Unix-like systems:
run <code>configure --help</code> for more
information.</p>
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<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/">Apple
GCC</a> 3.3, 4.0 on Mac OS X.</li>
<li><a href=
"http://www.borland.com/us/products/cbuilder/">Borland
C++</a> 5.6.4 on Windows.</li>
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GNU C++</a> 2.95.3
(with and without STLport), 3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x,
4.0.x on Windows, Linux and Solaris.</li>
<li><a href="http://h30097.www3.hp.com/cplus/">HP
C++ for Tru64 UNIX 7.1</a>.</li>
<li><a href=
"http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/index.htm">
Intel C++</a> 8.1, 9.0 on Windows, Linux.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.metrowerks.com">Metrowerks
CodeWarrior</a> 8.3, 9.4, 9.5 on Mac OS X and
Windows.</li>
<li><a href=
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/">Microsoft
Visual C++</a> 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport),
7.0, 7.1, 8.0. Note: Boost does not support the
non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping with
Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious
warnings from Boost headers and other
standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these
warnings, define the macro
<code>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE</code>.</li>
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<h4>Acknowledgements</h4>
<p><img src="more/boost_1_33_0.jpg" width="128"
height="118" alt="Medieval Mr. Gregor" class=
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"people/doug_gregor.html">Douglas Gregor</a> managed
this release.</p>
<p>A great number of people contributed their time
and expertise to make this release possible. Special
thanks go to Aleksey Gurtovoy and Misha Bergal, who
managed to keep the regression testing system working
throughout the release process; David Abrahams, Beman
Dawes, Aleksey Gurtovoy, Bronek Kozicki, Rene Rivera
and Jonathan Turkanis for greatly improving the
quality of this release; Rene Rivera for the new
Boost web page design; and Zoltan "cad" Juhasz for
the new Boost logo.</p>
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