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accumulators - Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.
algorithm - A collection of useful generic algorithms, from Marshall Clow.
align - Memory alignment functions, allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.
any - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.
array - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.
asio - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.
assert - Customizable assert macros, from Peter Dimov.
assign - Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
atomic - C++11-style atomic<>, from Helge Bahmann, maintained by Tim Blechmann.
bimap - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
bind and mem_fn - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter Dimov.
call_traits - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
chrono - Useful time utilities, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
circular_buffer - STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.
compatibility - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.
compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
config - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
container - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gaztañaga
context - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke
conversion - Polymorphic casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.
convert - An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework, from Vladimir Batov
core - A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies, maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes, and Andrey Semashev.
coroutine - Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke
coroutine2 - Coroutine2 library (C++14), from Oliver Kowalke
crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.
date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.
dynamic_bitset - A runtime sized version of std::bitset from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.
endian - Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness, from Beman Dawes
enable_if - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.
exception - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (N2179), from Emil Dotchevski.
filesystem - Portable paths, iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from Beman Dawes.
flyweight - Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.
format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.
function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.
function_types - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger
functional - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.
functional/factory - function object templates for dynamic and static object creation, from Tobias Schwinger
functional/forward - adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments, from Tobias Schwinger
functional/hash - A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types, from Daniel James.
functional/overloaded_function - Overload different functions into a single function object, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
fusion - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.
gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.
geometry - Geometry Library, from Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande, Mateusz Loskot and Adam Wulkiewicz.
graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.
heap - Priority queue data structures, from Tim Blechmann
icl - Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.
identity_type - Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
integer - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.
interprocess - Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga
interval - Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.
intrusive - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga
in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory- Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.
io state savers - Save I/O state to prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.
iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.
iterator - Iterator construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.
lambda - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell.
lexical_cast - General literal text conversions, such as an int represented as a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.
local_function - Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
locale - Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis
lockfree - Lockfree data structures, from Tim Blechmann
log - Logging library, from Andrey Semashev
math - Several contributions in the domain of mathematics, from various authors.
math/complex number algorithms - These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.
math/common_factor - Greatest common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.
math/constants - A wide range of numeric constants from Paul Bristow and John Maddock.
math/floating point utilities - Utilities for manipulating floating point values from Johan Rade.
math/octonion - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.
math/special_functions - A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.
math/statistical distributions - A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow
math/quaternion - Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.
minmax - standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations, from Hervé Brönnimann.
move - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gaztañaga
MPI - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.
mpl - Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes, from Aleksey Gurtovoy.
meta state machine - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.
multi_array - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.
multi_index - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
multiprecision - Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic from John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos.
numeric/conversion - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando Cacciola.
odeint - Solving ordinary differential equations, from Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
optional - Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.
parameter - Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin.
Phoenix - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Thomas Heller
Predef - This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers, from Rene Rivera.
pointer container - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen.
polygon - Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.
pool - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.
preprocessor - Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides.
program_options - Access to configuration data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.
property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
property tree - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.
proto - Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.
python - Reflects C++ classes and functions into Python, from Dave Abrahams.
random - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.
range - Concepts and utilities for range-based algorithms, as well as range-based algorithms and range adaptors that allow for efficient and very expressive code, from Thorsten Ottosen and Neil Groves.
ratio - Compile time rational arithmetic, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
rational - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.
ref - A utility library for passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.
regex - Regular expression library, from John Maddock.
result_of - determines the type of a function call expression.
scope_exit - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov and Lorenzo Caminiti.
serialization - Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey
signals (deprecated) - managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.
signals2 - managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.
smart_ptr - Six smart pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, Darin Adler, and Glen Fernandes.
sort - library that includes spreadsort, a general-case hybrid radix sort that is faster than O(n*log(n))
statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
spirit - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.
string_algo - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba.
swap - Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.
system - Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.
test - Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.
throw_exception - Common infrastructure for throwing exceptions, from Emil Dotchevski.
thread - Portable C++ multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
timer - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.
tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.
TR1 - An implementation of the Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.
tribool - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.
tti - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener
tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.
type_erasure - Runtime polymorphism based on concepts, from Steven Watanabe.
type_index - Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony Polukhin.
type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.
typeof - Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.
uBLAS - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.
units - Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.
unordered - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom, from Dave Abrahams and others.
value_initialized - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.
uuid - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.
variant - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.
wave - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser
xpressive - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.

Libraries Listed by Category

Algorithms

algorithm - A collection of useful generic algorithms, from Marshall Clow.
foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.
gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.
geometry - Geometry Library, from Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.
graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.
minmax - standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations, from Hervé Brönnimann.
polygon - Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.
range - A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.
sort - library that includes spreadsort, a general-case hybrid radix sort that is faster than O(n*log(n))
string_algo - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba
utility - Class next(), prior() function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others.

Broken Compiler Workarounds

compatibility - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.
config - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.

Concurrent Programming

asio - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.
atomic - C++11-style atomic<>, from Helge Bahmann, maintained by Tim Blechmann
context - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke
coroutine - Coroutine library, from Oliver Kowalke
coroutine2 - Coroutine2 library (C++14), from Oliver Kowalke
interprocess - Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators, from Ion Gaztañaga
lockfree - Lockfree data structures, from Tim Blechmann
MPI - Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming, from Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer.
thread - Portable C++ multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escribá.

Containers

array - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.
bimap - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
circular_buffer - STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer, from Jan Gaspar.
container - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gaztañaga
dynamic_bitset - A runtime sized version of std::bitset from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.
gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.
graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.
icl - Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.
intrusive - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga
multi_array - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.
multi_index - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
pointer container - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen.
property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
property tree - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.
unordered - unordered associative containers, from Daniel James.
variant - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.

Correctness and testing

assert - Customizable assert macros, from Peter Dimov.
concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
test - Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.

Data structures

any - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.
bimap - Bidirectional maps, from Matias Capeletto.
container - Standard library containers and extensions, from Ion Gaztañaga
compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
fusion - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman and Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.
icl - Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values, from Joachim Faulhaber.
intrusive - Intrusive containers and algorithms, from Ion Gaztañaga
heap - Priority queue data structures, from Tim Blechmann
multi_index - Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
optional - Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.
pointer container - Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen.
polygon - Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.
property tree - A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.
tribool - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.
tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.
variant - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.
type_erasure - Runtime polymorphism based on concepts, from Steven Watanabe.

Domain Specific

chrono - Useful time utilities, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.
date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.
units - Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion, from Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe.
uuid - A universally unique identifier, from Andy Tompkins.

Function Objects and Higher-order Programming

bind and mem_fn - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter Dimov.
function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.
functional - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.
functional/factory - function object templates for dynamic and static object creation, from Tobias Schwinger
functional/forward - adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments, from Tobias Schwinger
functional/hash - A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types, from Daniel James.
functional/overloaded_function - Overload different functions into a single function object, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
lambda - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell.
local_function - Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
Phoenix - Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Thomas Heller
ref - A utility library for passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.
signals (deprecated) - managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.
signals2 - managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.
result_of - determines the type of a function call expression.

Generic Programming

call_traits - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
enable_if - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.
function_types - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger
gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.
in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory- Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
tti - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener
type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.

Image Processing

gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.

Input/Output

asio - Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs, from Chris Kohlhoff.
assign - Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
endian - Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness, from Beman Dawes
format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.
io state savers - Save I/O state to prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.
iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.
locale - Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis
program_options - Access to configuration data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.
serialization - Serialization of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey

Inter-language Support

python - Reflects C++ classes and functions into Python, from Dave Abrahams.

Iterators

gil - Generic Image Library, from Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin.
graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.
iterator - Iterator construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.

Language Features Emulation

exception - A library for transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads (N2179), from Emil Dotchevski.
foreach - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.
move - Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++1 compilers, from Ion Gaztañaga
parameter - Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin.
scope_exit - Execute arbitrary code at scope exit, from Alexander Nasonov and Lorenzo Caminiti.
typeof - Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.
type_index - Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony Polukhin.

Memory

align - Memory alignment functions, allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.
pool - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.
smart_ptr - Six smart pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, Darin Adler, and Glen Fernandes.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom, from Dave Abrahams and others.

Math and Numerics

accumulators - Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators, from Eric Niebler.
endian - Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness, from Beman Dawes
geometry - Geometry Library, from Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot.
integer - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.
interval - Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.
math - Several contributions in the domain of mathematics, from various authors.
math/complex number algorithms - These complex number algorithms are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard, from John Maddock.
math/common_factor - Greatest common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.
math/octonion - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.
math/quaternion - Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.
math/special_functions - A wide selection of mathematical special functions from John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang.
math/statistical distributions - A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them from John Maddock and Paul Bristow
math/constants - A wide range of numberic constants from John Maddock and Paul Bristow.
math/floating point utilities - Floating point manipulation utilities from Johan Rade.
multi_array - Multidimensional containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.
multiprecision - Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic from John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos.
numeric/conversion - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando
odeint - Solving ordinary differential equations, from Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
polygon - Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates, from Lucanus Simonson, Andrii Sydorchuk.
random - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.
ratio - A compile time ratio arithmetic, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
rational - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.
uBLAS - Basic linear algebra for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.

Template Metaprogramming

function_types - Type traits for callable, built-in types, from Tobias Schwinger
fusion - Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. From Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger.
mpl - Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes, from Aleksey Gurtovoy.
proto - Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages, from Eric Niebler.
ratio - A compile time ratio arithmetic, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
tti - Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener
type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.

Patterns and Idioms

flyweight - Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects, from Joaquín M López Muñoz.
signals (deprecated) - managed signals & slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.
signals2 - managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2), from Frank Mori Hess.
utility base-from-member idiom, from Dave Abrahams and others.
compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.

State Machines

meta state machine - High-performance expressive UML 2.0 finite state machines, from Christophe Henry.
statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.

Parsing

spirit - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.

Preprocessor Metaprogramming

identity_type - Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters, from Lorenzo Caminiti.
preprocessor - Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides.

Programming Interfaces

function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.
parameter - Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin.

String and Text Processing

convert - An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework, from Vladimir Batov
format - Type-safe 'printf-like' format operations, from Samuel Krempp.
iostreams - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.
lexical_cast - lexical_cast class template, from Kevlin Henney.
locale - Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++, from Artyom Beilis
regex - Regular expression library, from John Maddock
spirit - LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, Dan Nuffer and team.
string_algo - String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba
tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela
wave - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser.
xpressive - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.

System

chrono - Useful time utilities, from Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes, Vicente J. Botet Escribá.
context - Context switching library, from Oliver Kowalke
date_time - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.
filesystem - Portable paths, iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from Beman Dawes.
system - Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library, from Beman Dawes.
thread - Portable C++ multi-threading, from William Kempf, Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escribá.

Miscellaneous

conversion - Polymorphic casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.
core - A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies, maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes, and Andrey Semashev.
endian - Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness, from Beman Dawes
numeric/conversion - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions, from Fernando Cacciola.
Predef - This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers, from Rene Rivera.
swap - Enhanced generic swap function, from Joseph Gauterin.
timer - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.
TR1 - An implementation of the Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.
throw_exception - Common infrastructure for throwing exceptions, from Emil Dotchevski.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom, from Dave Abrahams and others.
value_initialized - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.

[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escribá]

Libraries Retired from Boost

compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32. Please use Bind or Lambda instead.

Revised 19 Feb 2015

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