Re: [Boost-users] [1.40.0] Beta 1 available

Ingolf Steinbach wrote:

2009/8/15 Beman Dawes :

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Boost release 1.40.0 beta 1 is available from SourceForge: [...] This release contains no new libraries, but contains numerous bug fixes for existing libraries.

A few questions:

1. Are there incompatible changes wrt 1.39? If not: (for the curious) what was the rationale for naming it 1.40.0 rather than 1.39.1 if it is a bugfix only release?

All the changes can be found at http://beta.boost.org. No single person knows if they are incompatible, or if there are incompatible changes not listed there at all. It's 1.40 because every quarterly release is 1.N+1. In general, there's no ABI or API stability, so incrementing third number can be done only when doing true bugfix releases with a small number of changes, each individually examined. This release is not like this. - Volodya