We had been putting off the Boost.URL security review for a while. There was always something more urgent. When the review finally happened, it confirmed what we hoped: the core parsing logic held up well. Around the same time, a constexpr feature request that we had been dismissing suddenly became a cross-library collaboration when other Boost maintainers started applying changes to their own libraries. And while working on Boost.Beast2 integration, we noticed friction in common URL operatio...

During Q1 2026, I’ve been working in the following areas: Boost.Container The rewritten boost::container::deque shipped in 1.90. Leaner container and iterators. Details and benchmarks against libstdc++, libc++ and MSVC STL on my blog: Inside Boost.Container: comparing different deque implementations. The deque implementation was refactored into a reusable deque_impl so it could back a new segtor container: a single-ended counterpart to deque (same segmented storage, push_back/pop_back only...

When new developers joined the MrDocs team, we expected the usual ramp-up: learning the codebase, understanding the architecture, and getting comfortable with the review process. What we did not expect was that building and testing the project would be the hardest part. People dedicated to the project full-time spent weeks just trying to get a working build. Even when they succeeded, each person ended up with their own set of workarounds: a custom script here, a patched flag there, an undocum...

First some personal news. To keep my coding skills sharp(ish), I updated my simulation of Greek and Persian triremes (rowed war-galleys with big bronze rams) with better graphics (splashy bows, greying sea and skies in strong wind, fire pots to illuminate courses) and some better AI. Originally the code was in C++, but changed to C# to work well with XNA graphics. I was unaware of the Ogre graphics library at the time, nor the Boost libraries - which might have given the performance to extend...

Joining Community Early in Q1 2026, I joined the C++ Alliance. A very exciting moment. So I began to work early January under Joaquin’s mentorship, with the idea of having a clear contribution to Boost Graph by the end of Q1. After a few days of auditing the current state of the library versus the literature, it became clear that community detection methods (aka graph clustering algorithms) were sorely lacking for Boost.Graph, and that implementing one would be a great start to revitaliz...