Boost release 1.47.0 beta 1 is now available from SourceForge See http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ New Libraries: Chrono, Geometry, Phoenix and Ratio. Updated Libraries: Accumulators, Asio, Config, DateTime, Dynamic Bitset, Foreach, Function, Function Types, Graph, Iterator, Lexical Cast, Logic, Math, Meta State Machine, MultiIndex, Proto, Spirit, Tokenizer, Utility, Wave For details of what's in the release, see http://beta.boost.org/users/news/version_1_47_0. Note that the links to files on this web page are for the final release - use the SourceForge link above to get the beta files. There have been reports of build issues with MinGW/CGG and 64-bit Windows/VC++. These are being investigated and hopefully should be cleared up before the final release Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you encounter. Thanks, -- The Boost Release Team Beman Dawes Daniel James Eric Niebler Rene Rivera Vladimir Prus