Sohail Somani writes:

On 18/05/2014 4:34 AM, John Maddock wrote:

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Any feedback or suggestions other than not using boost for serialization?

It was my understanding that stuff like that should be supported, if you have a test case then filing a bug report would seem to be in order?

Based on the error, it seems like what is happening is that a newer version of Boost is attempting to communicate with an older version of Boost. The actual exception is from the archive itself, IIUC. The library has explicitly said this is not supported, unfortunately.

To the OP, I'd suggest not upgrading Boost serialization or requiring upgrading in lockstep. Upgrading multiple hosts in random order means new communicating with old. This is an unsupported use case.

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