[release-notes] Noting Boost feature

[Pete Travis]

commit 947297db1e162ddcb40949976011066f6a858857
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun May 12 15:01:32 2013 -0600

    Noting Boost feature

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     <para>
       The general purpose concurrent programming language and runtime <package>Erlang</package> has been updated to <literal>R16B</literal>. The full changelog is available at <ulink url="http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16A_RELEASE_CANDIDATE.readme" /> and <ulink url="http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16B.readme" />. Documentation includes <ulink url="http://vimeo.com/44790646" /> and <ulink url="http://www.erlang.org/download_release/17" />
     </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Boost Updated to 1.53</title>
+    <para>
+      Fedora &PRODVER; includes <package>Boost</package> version 1.53. Compared to 1.50 shipped with Fedora &PREVVER;, Boost 1.53 comes with several new libraries:
+      <simplelist>
+        <member><function>Context</function>, for context switching</member>
+        <member><function>Coroutine</function>, a coroutine library</member>
+        <member><function>Lockfree</function>, lockfree data structures</member>
+        <member><function>Multiprecision</function>, extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer and rational arithmetic</member>
+        <member><function>Atomic</function>, C++11-style atomic&lt;&gt;</member>
+        <member><function>Odeint</function>, for solving ordinary differential equations </member>
+      </simplelist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Many other libraries were updated. The detailed release notes are available for Boost 1.51.0, 1.52.0 and 1.53.0:
+      <simplelist>
+        <member><ulink url="Boost 1.53.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_50_0" /></member>
+        <member><ulink url="Boost 1.52.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_51_0" /></member>
+        <member><ulink url="Boost 1.51.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_52_0" /></member>
+        <member><ulink url="Boost 1.50.0 Release Notes: http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_53_0" /></member>
+      </simplelist>
+    </para>
+    <note>
+      <title>Backwards Compatibility</title>
+      <para>
+        Note that neither API, nor ABI compatibility with Boost 1.50 may be assumed. Third party applications built against older versions of Boost will need to be recompiled, and may need to be patched to work well with Boost 1.53.
+      </para>
+    </note>
+  </section>
+
 </section>