Re: [boost] Lets do 1.70.1 WHO IS WITH ME!!!

On Sun, 5 May 2019 at 03:49, James E. King III via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 6:37 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

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A crashing defect in Beast was discovered shortly after release:

https://github.com/boostorg/beast/issues/1599

It happens under high load when things happen at just the right time (or wrong time depending on how you look at it). It *will* eventually happen to any long-lived connection that sees enough traffic and timeouts. The fix is trivial:

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https://github.com/vinniefalco/beast/commit/8620439f8e38db62713cff55a428bf8b...

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Thanks to the detailed report we were able to write a unit test which reproduces it reliably.

Is this worth putting up a 1.70.1 for? The timeout feature is new in 1.70 and it is rather a shame that people might not be able to use it because of a defect.

Boost releases are quite expensive and happen on a regular schedule. Releases happen every 4 months and people can get the latest from develop with the fix. That should be sufficient.

I'm quite keen to recompile my production systems against the latest asio/beast changes in boost 1.70 as they are extremely pertinent to my domain. If there is any way of getting a patch release out into the wild as a complete tar.gz that would be helpful as it would mean I don't have to redefine my build environment in terms of git submodules. I am pretty sure I've seen patch releases of boost before, or a I mistaken? If it's not possible, would anyone be able to advise on what is the official cmake-compatible git repo for boost, and which tag/commit I should use? Just want to add my vote of thanks to Vinnie and Damien (not to mention Chris Kholoff!) whose tireless work on async i/o-based web protocols in c++ has made my working life a joy.

From the bottom of my heart guys, you are awesome.

- Jim

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