On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 2:38 PM Marshall Clow via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
[ Ok, I've rebuilt the RC - and it contains only the changes to function and MPL ]

The release candidates for the third 1.69.0 beta release are now available at:

The release notes are not yet final.

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
ee0ecd7d31f58474c1e0210089c9e66bd878d4d1e7436ac511e359aa4a9d3e86  ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc3.7z
3e25c46f2171799caabbeb419ba7859fffb62208f3a1c80798713377ab07af0e  ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc3.tar.bz2
71f4b57175058af1b8c320971cf29226e5a652931a679f7e1c086655147ecafb  ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc3.tar.gz
ec9ef7d2c9f0d41f560769e67bc7ff207cc999243a7dd6c3f6bcfbdbf0827a7b  ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc3.zip

As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

Looks like that fixed the msvc-8.0 issues. Everything looks good now.

toolset     arch    compile Link    Execute
msvc-8.0    32      X       X       X
msvc-8.0    64      X       X       X
msvc-9.0    32      X       X       X
msvc-9.0    64      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   64      X       X       X

Compile means that the b2 command completed without errors
Link means that visual studio was able to link a sample executable to a library (libboost_thread-vcXXX-mt[-gd]-1_XX.lib)
generated
Execute means that the linked program executed without errors.

Full log here:
https://gist.github.com/teeks99/f85ce356a94eeae7d6a32d19aaca17a9

Tom