Re: [boost] [1.55.0] Release Notes

3 Oct 2013

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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:20:02 +0100
From: daniel@calamity.org.uk
On 1 October 2013 06:15, Daryle Walker  wrote:
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:29:41 +0100
From: daniel@calamity.org.uk
If you haven't already, can you write your release notes for 1.55? You
can send them to me, or add them yourself at:
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/website/public_html/live/feed/history/
Is there a way to check the Release branch on SVN to check what a particular
user has done on it since the last release was based on it? (Of course, we
would need the marker for the last release point.)
I'd just run 'svn log' in the release branch and search for their
username. The last release was based on revision 84902, I got that
from:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/log/tags/release/Boost_1_54_0/
OK, I did:

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C:\...\boost-release>svn log -r 84902:HEAD --search dlwalker
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r85441 | dlwalker | 2013-08-24 04:17:46 -0400 (Sat, 24 Aug 2013) | 1 line
Merged [85417], [85418], and [85434] from trunk to release, fixing show-stoppers
 for Boost.Rational, like #5855 and a C++11 update for some test code
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Looking at those change-sets:

Boost.Rational:

* Added "lowest" and "max_digits10," members of std::numeric_limits added in C++11,
  to the unit-test code.  Needed since Boost.Test refers to one of them when
  compiled in C++11 mode.
* Changed initialization of some internal variables to something that cannot be a
  narrowing conversion, which fixes issue #5855.  Needed since narrowing conversions
  are an error in C++11.

You can use different wording; that's just a summary.  Those two points are for the
first two change-sets; the third change-set modifies the second.  (MSVC doesn't
accept "not" as a substitute for "!".)

Daryle W.