On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:22 AM Tom Kent wrote:

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:43 PM Michael Caisse via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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Boost release 1.71.0 beta 1 is now available at:

https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.71.0.beta1.rc1/source/

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

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a93d7066fc1514995aec0e726532a219447dd39b0ffa7cb97ca5736f16b0488b boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.tar.bz2

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5cd448bddc8394469391306e0ccada0a8f88c5c6cf8ec775ddf8e56adef8bbc2 boost_1_71_0_b1_rc1.zip

For details of what's in the release, see http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_71_0.html.

Note: Having some trouble getting the web page updated... check back with it soon.

Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you encounter.

Thanks,

-- The Boost Release Team

The directory is "RC1", is this the usual pre-beta RC series that we usually go through, or did the release team skip RC announcements this time?

For what its worth, this RC looks good on windows/visual studio. toolset arch compile Link Execute msvc-10.0 32 X X X msvc-10.0 64 X X X msvc-11.0 32 X X X msvc-11.0 64 X X X msvc-12.0 32 X X X msvc-12.0 64 X X X msvc-14.0 32 X X X msvc-14.0 64 X X X msvc-14.1 32 X X X msvc-14.1 64 X X X msvc-14.2 32 X X X msvc-14.2 64 X X X Compile means that the b2 command completed without errors Link means that visual studio was able to link a sample executable to a library (libboost_thread-vcXXX-mt[-gd]-1_XX.lib) generated Execute means that the linked program executed without errors. Tom

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:14 PM Michael Caisse wrote:

On 7/19/19 04:22, Tom Kent wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:43 PM Michael Caisse via Boost mailto:boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

Boost release 1.71.0 beta 1 is now available at:

https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.71.0.beta1.rc1/source/

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

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Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you encounter.

Thanks,

-- The Boost Release Team

The directory is "RC1", is this the usual pre-beta RC series that we usually go through, or did the release team skip RC announcements this

time?

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Tom

This is my mistake. The pre-beta RC series got skipped. I did a lot of local testing and didn't fully understand the steps Marshall had been following.

In short, if Tom thinks this package looks good then it is also the Beta1. Sorry about the confusion and thank you for the feedback. The next round will be executed better.

I'm not wild about changing the release process on the fly, especially if it eliminates the community's testing of RCs. I do a bunch of tests, but they are limited to the Windows/Visual Studio configurations, there's a much more diverse audience out there that we often get feedback from. That said, if this is Beta1, I'll upload these binaries as the windows packages to bintray. (uploading now, should be visible in a few minutes) Can you please fix the file names on bintray so that the beta release doesn't include the rc1 in the path or file name? E.g. the files should be at: https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.71.0.beta1/source/boost_1_71_0_b1.* Just like they were for 1.70: https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.70.0.beta1/source/boost_1_70_0_b1.tar... Thanks, Tom