Marshall Clow
Release candidate files for 1.56.0 beta 1 are available at http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
All libraries built fine with MSVC 2013 Update 3 RC in the following configurations: - 32-bit _WIN32_WINNT=0x0502 static libs, static runtime - 64-bit _WIN32_WINNT=0x0601 static libs, static and dynamic runtimes All the projects using Boost I tested compiled and worked fine with two additional patches in release mode: thread: https://github.com/boostorg/thread/commit/08c4599 asio: https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio/pull/22 Debug builds are blocked by smart_ptr: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10183