Boost Version 1.29.0 has been released. See www.boost.org. This is a major release, with five new libraries added and major revisions to several existing libraries: * Date-Time Library added - Dates, times, leap seconds, infinity, and more, from Jeff Garland. * Dynamic Bitset added - A runtime sized version of the std::bitset class from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison. * Format Library added - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp. * Function Library: Major syntactic changes have been made. Some old syntax and little-used features have been deprecated (and will be removed shortly), and the syntax for the boost::function class template has been greatly improved on conforming compilers. Please see the compatibility note for more information. * Multi-array Library added - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia. * Preprocessor Library: Major upgrade, from Paul Mensonides. * Python Library - Version 2 is released, from Dave Abrahams and others. This is a major rewrite which works on many more compilers and platforms, with a completely new interface and lots of new features. Boost.Python v2 requires Python 2.2 or later. * Signals Library added - Managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor. * Test Library: Major new version, including full unit test capabilities, from Gennadiy Rozental. * uBLAS Library added - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch. --Beman