I tried submitting this via Trac but for some reason it was convinced that my bug report contained spam, while refusing to tell me what part it was objecting to, and also refusing to give me a captcha or anything to convince it otherwise. Anyways: Bug 1: the Boost.Thread documentation and release history indicate that BOOST_THREAD_VERSION==3 is the default since v1.52. As far as I can tell this has never been true in any released version; the latest code still has ==2. (I found a thread in boost-devel that was debating consequences of making breaking changes by default, which I assume is why this change was not actually made; but the docs need correcting.) Bug 2: when writing code using the Boost.Thread "Portable Interface" for move support/emulation, it recommends using the BOOST_THREAD_DCL_MOVABLE_BEG macro to "avoid conflicts with Boost.Move". However regardless of C++11 or not or the BOOST_THREAD_VERSION it defines a template specialisation in a way that assumes that it is called only from "namespace boost". As this usage is unlikely for any code outside the boost library itself, I think this is a bug. namespace user { template<typename T> class test { public: BOOST_THREAD_COPYABLE_AND_MOVABLE(test) test() {} test(const test&) {} test& operator=(BOOST_COPY_ASSIGN_REF(test) o) { return *this; } test(BOOST_THREAD_RV_REF(test) o) {} test& operator=(BOOST_THREAD_RV_REF(test) o) { return *this; } }; BOOST_THREAD_DCL_MOVABLE_BEG(T) test<T> BOOST_THREAD_DCL_MOVABLE_END } The above code will not compile. It does compile if the DCL define is moved into a "namespace boost" block, but I do not regard this as an acceptable solution. Suggested fix is to explicitly specify the namespace in the macro, eg. replace "enable_move_utility_emulation" with "::boost::enable_move_utility_emulation".