I'm starting to test build release candidate files for 1.35.0. The 1.34.0 and 1.34.1 release candidates were build by hand, IIUC. There is a Python script to do that job (boost-root/tools/release/make_tarballs.py), but it is out of date. I'm starting to work on updating it. What does such a script have to do? * Export SVN branches/release with the correct line endings for POSIX and Windows. * Build the quickbook/boostbook docs. * Set various file permissions. * Build the actual .zip, .gz, .bz2, and .7z files. What else? Where do the beta.boost.org web pages come from? --Beman PS: In the future, I think we should start building release files nightly for the next release as soon as a release ships. That will speed the process of identifying problems.