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. In general I think regression results are finally looking promising and we should shoot for a beta release before new years. That being said there are still outstanding issues. Regression Tests ================ - Lots of probably configuration related regressions in some msvc tests as pointed out here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/3751 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/3749 - concept_check Regressions for borland 5.8.2 and msvc 6.5. The borland fail should be marked expected (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/ 152138). Who's going to take care of the msvc-6.5 failure? - iostreams Broken on cw-9.4. Anybody working on this? - 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 ===== - Getting Started Guide Dave is making significant progress on this and I think it'll be a major step forward once it's done. - 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 7 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 ('.') 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 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? - 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. Please let me know of issues not covered here. I'll add them to the list. Thanks Thomas Thomas Witt witt@acm.org