This is a heads-up that out_ptr has been scheduled for review, starting next Sunday, June 16. From JenHeyd's earlier post about the library: " Documentation: https://github.com/ThePhD/out_ptr/blob/master/docs/out_ptr.adoc Repository: https://github.com/ThePhD/out_ptr https://github.com/ThePhD/out_ptr/blob/master/docs/out_ptr.adoc Standards Proposal: https://thephd.github.io/vendor/future_cxx/papers/d1132.html boost.out_ptr is a library for making it easy to interoperate between smart pointers and traditional C-style initialization and allocation interfaces. It also enables doing so in a way that allows library authors to opt into speed optimizations for their smart pointers that give them performance equivalent to typical C pointers (see benchmarks ( https://github.com/ThePhD/out_ptr/blob/master/docs/out_ptr/benchmarks.adoc) and the Standard C++ proposal for more details). " Please consider checking out the library now, and doing a review next week. It's a pretty small library; reviews should be pretty quick to do. Zach