Boost 1.68.0, a set of C++ source libraries, is released, debuting YAP!

After the release of Boost 1.67.0 in April earlier this year, Boost 1.68.0 is now out with a new library named YAP and few updates in the libraries such as, Beast, Fusion, and GIL to name a few.

Boost provides peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries for generic programming, concurrency programming, metaprogramming, data structures, testing, and many more tasks and structures.

YAP: The new expression template library

YAP is an expression template library that aims to help developers in writing optimized and maintainable code. Some of its features include:

• Member and non-member functions on ExpressionTemplates and Expressions can be added with compact macros.
• A reference template that models ExpressionTemplate exists for prototyping or experimentation.
• The evaluation done by Boost.YAP closely matches the semantics of built-in C++ expressions, enabling clearer understanding of the semantics of expression evaluation.
• Expressions can be transformed explicitly in a user-defined way with the help of overloaded call operators in a transform class. The evaluate(transform(expr)) idiom is expected to be one of the most common ways of using YAP to manipulate and evaluate expressions.
• Boost.YAP provides functions that manipulate expressions or their subexpressions.

Updated libraries in Boost 1.68.0

Beast:

• An executor work guard is added in all composed operations used in the implementation. To avoid crashes related to asynchronous completion handlers, users are encouraged to upgrade.

Fusion:

• A workaround is added for ambiguous call of fusion::deque constructor on GCC 4.4/c++0x.
• A bug with C-style array is now fixed.
• Fixed a fusion::for_each signature to take functor by value. This may break existing code with non-copyable (non-movable) functor.
• Unintentional MPL placeholder substitution bug on fusion::transform is now fixed.

GIL:

• C++11-compliant compiler is now required by the library.
• Its I/O extensions have been entirely rewritten.
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Math:

• Added support for arbitrary precision complex valued quadrature and hence contour integration.
• Added support for contour integrals.
• Performance of polynomial addition is improved.

Multi-index Containers:

• Containers of moveable but non-copyable elements can now be serialized.
• The default constructor of multi_index_container is no longer explicit.

Test:

• The master_test_suite_t object is no more copyable.
• Dataset test case can now use command line parameters.

Uuid:

• Breaking change: sha1 detail namespace header redirection for backwards compatibility was removed.
• Added support for std::hash.
• Added support for move semantics on random generators.
• Properly handle EINTR when acquiring entropy.
• Use getrandom(2) instead of getentropy(3) on linux.

These were some of the updates in Boost 1.68.0. To know more, head over to their official site.

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