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The latest Boost 1.70.0 Release has Been Announced for Download

The latest Boost 1.70.0 has been announced for general availability and is now available for download. The release comes with new libraries, several major updates, performance and bug fixes.

The open source Boost 1.70.0 C++ libraries release comes with two new libraries namely Outcome and Histogram respectively.

Outcome is for reporting and handling function failures in contexts where directly using C++ exception handling is unsuitable.

Histogram is a library which is basically fast and extensible multi-dimensional histograms with a convenient interface for C++14.

Libraries which have significant updates include Asio, Beast, DLL, Dynamic Bitset, Filesystem, Integer, Log, Math, Mp11, Multi-index Containers, Multiprecision, PolyCollection, and Spirit. Others are Stacktrace, Test, TypeIndex, TypeTraits, Variant, and uBlas.

You can find out more details on the Boost 1.70.0 C++ libraries release changes as well as how to download from the official release page here.

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