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= Release Notes

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== Boost 1.90.0

.API Changes
* {issue}1117[#1117] Removed dependencies on Boost.Align and
  Boost.StaticAssert.

.Improvements
* {issue}1094[#1094] Switched to a faster hashing algorithm.

.Fixes
* {issue}1106[#1106] Fixed CMake version 3.8 support
* Documentation fixes.

== Boost 1.89.0

.Documentation
* New documentation style. New reference documentation structure.

.API Changes
* {issue}1050[#1050] Optionals that are ranges are categorised as optionals.
* {issue}1086[#1086] Described class support is enabled for types with bases.

== Boost 1.87.0

.API Changes
* {issue}991[#991] Conversion into structs ignores unknown keys.
* {issue}1041[#1041] Exception wrapping behaviour for `value_to` is simplified.
* {issue}1040[#1040] Deprecated initilaizer list behavior was removed.
* {issue}1040[#1040] Deprecated type aliases were removed.

.New Features
* {issue}956[#956] <<direct_conversion,Direct serialization>>.
* {issue}644[#644] Add GDB pretty printers for Boost.JSON types.

.Fixes
* {issue}1057[#1057] Use correct 64bit full multiplication for MinGW on ARM64.
* {issue}1048[#1048] Fix parse_into handling of tuple of the wrong size.
* {issue}1047[#1047] Check for input size larger than allowed size of sequence.
* {issue}1034[#1034] Fix `value_ref` segfaulting on GCC 14.

== Boost 1.86.0

.Deprecation
* Support for GCC versions older than version 5.0 is deprecated and **will
  stop in Boost 1.88.0**.

.API Changes
* {issue}941[#941] `source_location` parameter was added to throwing accessor
  functions.

.New Features
* {issue}940[#940] Parse option to tolerate invalid UTF-16 surrogate pairs,
  and produce https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/[WTF-8].
* {issue}941[#941] Added accessor functions that return `system::result`.

.Fixes
* Handle missing error case in direct parsing.

== Boost 1.85.0

.New Dependencies
* {issue}915[#915] Boost.Endian is now used to deal with endianness.

.API Changes
* {issue}881[#881] Aliases to Boost.System and Boost.Container components are
  deprecated and **will be completely removed in 1.87.0**.

.New Features
* {issue}979[#979] Conversion of described classes supports private members
* {issue}979[#979] Rvalue reference overload for `visit`.
* {issue}977[#977] Add conversion support for path-like types.

.Fixes
* {issue}988[#988] Parsing into described classes correctly considers inherited
  members.
* {issue}975[#975] Conversion of self-referential sequences is disabled.
* {issue}952[#952] Fixed reference handling in visit.

== Boost 1.84.0

.API Changes
* {issue}925[#925] Add a conversion category for variants.
* {issue}833[#833] Add a conversion category for optionals.
* {issue}840[#840] Relax iterator requirements for constructors from iterator
  pairs.

.New Features
* {issue}627[#627] Parsing directly into user types. See
  <<direct_conversion,Direct Parsing>>.

.Fixes
* {issue}933[#933] Fix reading beyond input buffer.
* {issue}920[#920] Fix inconsistent choice of init list constructor.
* Documentation improvements.

== Boost 1.83.0

.API Changes
* {issue}859[#859] The library now only throws {ref_system_error}, except for
  when allocation failed, in which case `std::bad_alloc` is thrown.
* {issue}884[#884] Serialization behavior can now be changed by
  <<ref_serialize_options,`serialize_options`>>.

.New Features
* {issue}819[#819] <<contextual_conversions,Contextual conversions>>.
* {issue}599[#599] <<ref_number_precision,Parser option>> for more precise
  number parsing.
* {issue}885[#885] Support <<ref_parse_options,`parse_options`>> in stream
  `operator<<`.
* {issue}397[#397] <<ref_parse_options,Parser option>> to allow `Infinity` and
  `NaN` JSON literals.
* {issue}901[#901] <<ref_number_precision,Parser mode>> that only validates
  numbers rather than parsing them.
* {issue}892[#892] Numbers with exponent larger than `INT_MAX` are accepted by
  the parser and treated as infinity.

.Fixes
* {issue}901[#901] Fix `object` member functions that should provide strong
  guarantee.
* {issue}887[#887] Fix ambiguity of `end` call when `boost/range.hpp` is
  included.
* {issue}902[#902] Fix ASan failures.
* {issue}904[#904] Fix error message for `error::size_mismatch`.
* Fix conversion into tuple with const elements.

== Boost 1.82.0

.New Features
* {issue}800[#800] <<ref_value_set_at_pointer,`set_at_pointer`>>.
* {issue}570[#570] <<ref_value_hash_value_fr,`boost::hash` support>>.

.Improvements
* {issue}848[#848] <<ref_serializer_serializer,Caller-provided serializer
  storage>> .
* {issue}807[#807] `value_to` supports missing elements for `std::optional`.
* Documentation improvements.

.Fixes
* {issue}876[#876] Fix parser suspend inside an escape character.
* {issue}814[#814] Make sentinel() return a unique pointer.

== Boost 1.81.0

.API Changes
* {issue}686[#686] Conversion traits were redesigned.
* {issue}756[#756] Removed `condition::assign_error`.
* {issue}758[#758] Removed `generic_category` alias.

.New Features

* {issue}749[#749] `object::stable_erase`.
* {issue}778[#778] Added error condition for generic library errors.
* {issue}619[#619] Added `parse` overload for `std::istream`.
* {issue}619[#619] `operator>>` for `value`.

.Improvements
* {issue}686[#686] Null-like type conversion support (including
  `std::nullptr_t`).
* {issue}736[#736] Non-throwing conversion from `value` to user types.
* {issue}677[#677] `value_to/from` supports `std::optional` and
  `std::nullopt_t`.
* {issue}517[#517] `value_to/from` supports `std::variant` and `std::monotype`.
* {issue}626[#626] `value_to/from` supports supports described classes
  and enums.
* {issue}757[#757] Rvalue ref-qualified accessors for `value`.

.Fixes
* {issue}745[#745] Support for self-swap and self-move in `string`.
* {issue}747[#747] Support for self-swap and self-move in `array`.
* {issue}735[#735] Replaced C floating point constants with C++ equivalents.
* Documentation improvements.

== Boost 1.80.0

.API Changes
* {issue}703[#703] Add non-const `value::at` overloads.
* {issue}717[#717] Add the ability to manually choose endianness of the
  platform.
* Add `string::subview()` overload.

.Fixes
* {issue}692[#692] Fix segfault in `array::erase(it)`.
* {issue}697[#697] Fix low performance of `serialize` on libc{pp}.
* {issue}708[#708] Fix ambiguous conversion to `std::string_view` on GCC 8.
* {issue}717[#717] Fix parsing on big-endian platforms.
* {issue}726[#726] Fix handling of comment after trailing comma.
* Minor documentation fixes.

== Boost 1.79.0

.API Changes
* {issue}650[#650] Standalone mode of the library is removed. Users who wish to
  continue using standalone JSON can switch to
  https://github.com/CPPAlliance/standalone-json.git[the C++ Alliance fork].

.New Features
* {issue}480[#480] Add support for JSON Pointer.

.Improvements
* Add `std::error_code` overloads.
* {issue}680[#680] Add `boost::source_location` to `error_codes`.

.Fixes
* {issue}668[#668] Naturally grow string during serialization.

== Boost 1.78.0

.API Changes
* {issue}628[#628] Standalone mode of the library is removed.

== Boost 1.78.0

.API Changes
* {issue}628[#628] Standalone mode of the library is deprecated.

.New Features
* {issue}549[#549] {issue}550[#550] Allow external libraries to forward declare
  <<ref_value_to,`value_to`>> and <<ref_value_from,`value_from`>>.

.Fixes
* {issue}608[#608] {issue}612[#612] Fixed signed integer overflow in number
  parsing.
* {issue}620[#620] Documentation fixes.

.Improvements
* {issue}557[#557] Add support for `/Zc:implicitNoexcept-` on MSVC.

== Boost 1.77.0

.New Features
* {issue}538[#538] <<ref_string_operator_std_string_view,Implicit conversion
  operator from `string` to `std::string_view`>>.
* {issue}521[#521] {std_hash} specializations for JSON types.

.Fixes
* <<ref_object,`object`>> deallocates the correct size.
* Fixed crash when constructing <<ref_array,`array`>> from a pair of iterators
  that form an empty range.
* <<ref_key_value_pair,`key_value_pair`>> allocates with the correct alignment.

.Improvements
* <<ref_value_to,`value_to`>> supports `TupleLike` types.
* <<ref_value_to,`value_to`>> and <<ref_value_from,`value_from`>> support
  {std_array} and similar types.

== Boost 1.76.0

.Fixes
* {issue}481[#481] Refactored <<ref_value_from,value_from>> implementation;
  user customizations are now always preferred over library-provided overloads.
* {issue}484[#484] Fixed imprecise parsing for some floating point numbers.
* {issue}485[#485] Fixed link errors in standalone mode, when used alongside
  Boost.
* {issue}497[#497] Fix Boost.Build builds on GCC 4.8.

== Boost 1.75.0

* Initial release.