Anthony, I have continued the analisys of the old Boost.Thread tikets. These 5 tickes should b closed: Ticket Summary Status Owner Type Severity Modified TO BE DELETED 1.34.1 #802 [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za assigned anthonyw Patches Problem 7 months TO BE DELETED 1.34.1 #1138 Problems with TSS and static thread library new speedsnail Bugs Problem 7 months SHOULD BE OK NOW? #1826 Auto detection of threadapi and target-os broken under cygwin gcc new anthonyw Bugs Problem 2 years REVISSION 62079 #2486 thread: no documented thread move support function new anthonyw Bugs Problem 7 months REVISSION 57380 #2739 shouldn't at_thread_exit work on the main thread? new anthonyw Bugs Problem 7 months These 3 have already a patch available. PATCH AVAILABLE #2330 thread::interrupt() can be lost if condition_variable::wait() in progress new anthonyw Bugs Showstopper 6 months PATCH AVAILABLE #2918 shared_mutex for win32 size optimization new anthonyw Patches Optimization 14 months PATCH AVAILABLE #2955 [patch] recursive mutex impossible if pthread_mutexattr_settype not defined new anthonyw Patches Showstopper 7 months This would reduce of 8 the number of tickets. These 7 tickets are quite simple: Let me now if you want I wrok on providing a patch for some of them. DOCUMENTATION SIMPLE #2639 documentation should be extended new anthonyw Feature Requests Not Applicable 7 months DOCUMENTATION #3160 Duplicate tutorial code in boost::thread new anthonyw Tasks Cosmetic 7 months SIMPLE #868 [thread] thread_specific_ptr::element_type ? assigned anthonyw Patches Problem 10 months SIMPLE #2747 inline warning new anthonyw Bugs Problem 7 months SIPLE #3179 Sleep with local_time new anthonyw Bugs Problem 7 months SIPLE #3244 XLC warnings about missing "private" keyword when extending boost::noncopyable new anthonyw Bugs Problem 7 months Best, Vicente