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• A postgres library for Boost

  A Boost-native PostgreSQL library, NativePG, is being developed to provide low‑level message serialization, type parsing, pipelined request composition, flexible response handlers, Asio‑based connections, auto‑batching, connection pooling, and safe SQL formatting, extending beyond libPQ.

  30/01/2026 Link #link

  

  Rubén Pérez Contributor
• DynamicBitset Reimagined: A Quarter of Flexibility, Cleanup, and Modern C++

  Boost.DynamicBitset was modernized: configurable container, C++20 iterators, legacy code removed, constexpr functions added, tests expanded, and new ops like push_front, pop_front, find_first_off introduced, making it leaner and more maintainable.

  15/10/2025 Link #link

  

  Gennaro Prota Contributor
• Working on Boost.Bloom roadmap

  In Q3 2025 Boost.Bloom work added branchless subfilters, bulk‑mode ops, and a dynamic filter prototype. Additional tasks covered CMake fixes, reviewing Boost libraries, filing site issues, moving release‑notes to the new website, and promotion on media.

  10/10/2025 Link #link

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  Joaquín M López Muñoz Contributor
• Chaotic Attractors with Boost.OdeInt, a talk by Richard Thomson at the Utah C++ Programmers Group

  09/10/2025 Video #video

  

  Robert Beeston Contributor

  
• Systems, CI Updates Q3 2025

  Submodule support was added to isomorphic-git, a PR submitted, and a ZenFS upgrade is being coordinated. Boost website deployment scripts were improved, mailman3 tooling updated, CI configurations simplified, Jenkins and Drone container images refreshed, and Terraform code upgraded.

  09/10/2025 Link #link

  

  Sam Darwin Contributor
• Decimal Goes Back to Review

  The Decimal library is re‑entering Boost review (Oct 6‑15). Updates include renamed types/headers, simplified constructors, IEEE‑754 rounding, Antora docs, fmt and CMake support, and resolved review issues; hardware decimal and CUDA support are planned.

  09/10/2025 Link #link

  

  Matt Borland Contributor
• Levelling up Boost.Redis

  Per‑operation cancellation via asio::cancel_after is added in Boost.Redis 1.90, together with custom startup commands replacing HELLO, Valkey support, race‑free cancellation handling, and upcoming Sentinel and health‑check enhancements.

  07/10/2025 Link #link

  

  Rubén Pérez Contributor
• Bulk operations in Boost.Bloom

  Bulk insertion and lookup are added to Boost.Bloom in Boost 1.90; position calculations are prefetched and lookup uses a bit‑mask with std::countr_zero to minimise branches, yielding speedups of up to three‑fold depending on filter size and parameters.

  04/10/2025 Link #link

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  Joaquín M López Muñoz Contributor
• Implementation of Nix functional package manager

  The implementation of Nix functional package manager from nixos.org relies on Boost libraries Container, Context, Coroutine, Core, Format, LexicalCast, Unordered and URL.
  
  https://nixos.org/
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix
  https://www.boost.org/

  23/09/2025 News #news

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  Joaquín M López Muñoz Contributor

  
• How to Be an Effective Boost Review Manager by Arnaud Becheler

  15/09/2025 News #news

  

  Robert Beeston Contributor