[release-notes] boost bump, new GCC

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Sun Oct 5 20:57:25 UTC 2014


commit 79a6609031ff28af25affd67aa736ea136f4131e
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 5 14:57:21 2014 -0600

    boost bump, new GCC

 en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml b/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
index 059a635..82d7007 100644
--- a/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
+++ b/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,38 @@
 ]>
 
 
-<section>
+<section id="development-gcc">
   <title>GCC Tools</title>
   <para />
+  <section id="gccdev-boost">
+    <title>Boost 1.55.0</title>
+    <para><systemitem class="library" >boost</systemitem> has been upgraded to version 1.55.0. This update brings a large number of bug fixes and enhancements, one new library (Predef), and a slight change in requirements as support for very old versions of several compilers has been removed.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For a full list of changes, see the <ulink url="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_55_0.html">Boost 1.55.0 Release Notes</ulink>>. 
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="gccdev-gcc">
+    <title>GCC 4.9.x</title>
+    <para>
+      The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been upgraded to version 4.9.x, and all Fedora packages have been rebuilt with this new version of GCC.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      The update provides a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. The notable newly supported features and changes are listed below:
+      <simplelist>
+        <member>ISO C11 support is largely complete.</member>
+        <member>Partial support for C++14.</member>
+        <member>C++11 support for regular expressions.</member>
+        <member>The OpenMP 4.0 standard.</member>
+        <member>the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSAN).</member>
+        <member>The Cilk Plus extension.</member>
+      </simplelist>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For detailed information about all changes, see the <ulink url="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">GCC 4.9 Release Notes</ulink>.
+    </para>
+  </section>
 
 </section>
   


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