Hi, This is the status of the 1.34.0 release as I see it. I'll update it on a roughly weekly basis. The main purpose of this is to make people aware of outstanding issues and maybe motivate some volunteers. Well by now everybody should have noticed that the beta release did not happen before new years. Lets try the same thing for 2007 then. That being said we are slowly inching forward. Some of the issues in the last report have been fixed. For a (probably incomplete) list of things please look at the end of this message New Issues ********** - build Possible documentation issue. http://article.gmane.org/ gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/152751. No known fix. - date_time Fails qcc-3.3.5_gpp. No known fix. Possible documentation issue. http://article.gmane.org/ gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/152753. No known fix. - ptr_map Thorsten proposed a patch as a follow up of this message http:// article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/152788. I'd really like to have another set of eyes look at this before it goes in. - test http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/152728. So far I did not get a definitive answer on whether this is a problem or not. - thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/3790. Roland what is the status on this one? Existing Issues *************** Regression Tests ================ - concept_check Regressions for borland 5.8.2 and msvc 6.5. These should all be marked expected. Jeremy is going to take care of this. Jeremy? - regex Fails msvc-6.5 no known fix. - test Fails darwin-4.0.1, cw-9.4 no known fix. - utility Fails gcc-3.4.5_linux_x86_64 no know fix. As I said we are getting close, but we *really* need people to look at the outstanding issues. Build ===== - v2 transition There still seem to exist vestiges of the old build system in some places. See here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/14768 This issue is unresolved as of now. We are seeking help and input. Inspection ========== - File name guidelines We still have 4 file/directory names issues in the following components boost/archive/basic_streambuf_locale_saver.hpp: *N* name exceeds 31 characters tools/build/v2/example/make/main.cpp.pro: *N* name contains more than one dot character ('.') libs/test/build/msvc71_proj/config_file_iterator_test.vcproj: *N* name exceeds 31 characters regression/.htaccess: *N* leading character of ".htaccess" is not alphabetic I consider these showstoppers for the final release. Could the respective library authors please take care of this, now? - Broken Links We still show 116 broken links. Is the report broken or the docs? - License Copyright We still have large number of license copyright issues. To me the do we really need a license/copyright for xxx discussion is not very productive. My personal attitude is get over it and fix it. While this is not a showstopper fixing them will be well received by our users and now is the time to do it. Fixed Issues ************ - Lots of probably configuration related regressions in some msvc tests. Configuration fixed. Thanks Aleksey. - iostreams Fixed for cw-9.4. Thanks Joaquin. - Getting Started Guide This is now ready for release as I understand it. Thanks Dave! - File name guidelines The following were fixed boost/graph/maximum_cardinality_matching.hpp: *N* name exceeds 31 characters libs/graph/doc/lengauer_tarjan_dominator_tree.htm: *N* name exceeds 31 characters libs/graph/doc/sorted_erdos_renyi_generator.html: *N* name exceeds 31 characters Please let me know of issues not covered here. I'll add them to the list. Thanks Thomas Thomas Witt witt@acm.org