<h3>General</h3>
<ol>
+ <li> <p>
+ New: <acronym>deal.II</acronym> now makes use of some parts of
+ the <a href="http://www.boost.org/">boost</a> library, which is
+ supposed to be a testground for the next generation C++ stanard
+ library. The parts which we use are now in
+ <code>contrib/boost/include/boost_local/</code> and can be
+ referenced from within your programs. The directory contains
+ the string <code>_local</code> since you may still want to use
+ another version or installation of boost in your own programs.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Also note that boost is large -- much larger than the subset we
+ have imported --, so we only took what we needed.
+ <br>
+ (WB 2003/02/06)
+ </p>
+
<li> <p>
Fixed: A longstanding bug in the documentation system has been fixed: if
a namespace was ended with <code>}</code> instead of <code>};</code>