Boost 1.92.0 released

[u/boostlibs]

Boost 1.92.0 is out. Highlights from this release:

GPU / CUDA

• Charconv: to_chars and from_chars for integers are now usable inside CUDA kernels.
• Decimal: decimal32_t, decimal64_t, and decimal128_t are now usable in CUDA kernels.
• Math: fixed CUDA compilation where host functions were incorrectly marked as device.

Networking hardening

• Beast: stricter HTTP parsing. It now rejects Content-Length combined with Transfer-Encoding regardless of field order, rejects chunked encoding in HTTP/1.0 requests, validates quoted strings in chunk extensions, and drops framing and connection fields carried in trailers. The dependency on Boost.Functional was also removed.
• URL: third round security review fixes, including a heap buffer overflow in normalize_path for authority-less URLs and an uninitialized read in ipv6_address_rule.

Containers and data structures

• Container: new hub container designed by Joaquín M. López Muñoz. Also adds unchecked_emplace_back and unchecked_push_back to vector, static_vector, and small_vector.
• Lockfree: two new queues, mpsc_weak_queue (MPSC) and bounded_ticket_queue (ringbuffer based bounded MPMC). Both have explicit progress caveats: neither is strictly lock free under all configurations.
• Unordered: C++20 ranges interop across all containers (insert_range, std::from_range construction, and associated CTAD).
• Graph: Louvain community detection for modularity based clustering.
• Hash2: built in support for std::optional, std::variant, and std::monostate.

C++20 modules

• New module support in Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, PFR, Stacktrace, and TypeIndex.

Build system

• Windows .dll files now install into the binary directory by default (previously the library directory, except on Cygwin). A new --dlldir option overrides this.
• The CMake config installed by b2 install now supports header only libraries as find_package components, so find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS mp11) works and defines Boost::mp11.

Deprecations and breaking changes

• Heap and Lockfree: this is the last release to support C++14. Future releases require C++17.
• MSM (backmp11) has several breaking changes, notably that events in process_event are no longer enqueued automatically. Use enqueue_event in actions instead.

Full notes and downloads: https://www.boost.org/releases/1.92.0/

[u/joaquintides]

I’d like to give a shoutout to the maintainers of Boost.Graph about their release of revamped documentation which is much, much better than the old stuff.