There are 25 bugs in the Trac system which are marked as "showstopper". Are any of these really worth holding up the release for? (and if not, should we reclassify these bugs?) http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/29 986 Problem building Python modules on boost 1.34.0 1215 Boost 1.34.1, mpl: Wrong workaround detection using MinGW32 (or.hpp, line #33)" 2411 bzip2_compressor does not work with filtering_istream,new,Bugs,Boost 1.37.0 2512 interval cosh: wrong result if interval contains 0 (but is not identical to [0,0]) 2513 rint not present in Visual Studio 2008 2164 locate_root wrong under CygWin 2797 Two problems with thread_specific_ptr 2255 Compilation error during arm cross compile - boost 1.36 2883 Boost::signals compile problem with GCC 3.4.5 2958 [patch] changes to make asio compile on vxWorks 2956 vxWorks POSIX quirks for date_time 583 Fixes for build on IBM pSeries for AIX and Linux 426 lambda vs pure virtual functions 3325 Limited support for mapping regions to specific addresses in Linux 738 Memory leaks with signal::connect? 3480 Build fails on Debian: 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 22:34:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux 3165 wrong project-config.jam generated for intel-linux 2955 [patch] recursive mutex impossible if pthread_mutexattr_settype not defined 1066 Patch to make Boost.Python compile on SunCC 2185 bjam hangs when building libs/python/examples/quickstart under MacOS X 3716 Application crash when using Boost.Python in a plug-in DLL for that application 3723 gzip_docompressor error - basic_array_source no putback member 2330 thread::interrupt() can be lost if condition_variable::wait() in progress 3735 thread_group::interrupt_all() is unreliable 2226 boost::thread 1.36.0 /clr Link Error LNK2022 Just asking.... -- Marshall P.S. I don't mind fixing 2512 and 2513 - and can do that for 1.43 if people don't want them in 1.42.