Boost Serialization Library upgrade

Question

Hello!

How do I know that I can safely upgrade Boost Serialization Library on a production system without breaking compatibility with the existing data ? Is there any test that I should perform in order to be sure that all data stored in the binary format by previous version of the library will be successfully read by the new one ? Does Boost Serialization library itself guarantee some sort of compatibility between versions ?

Answer 1

The initial Release was in Boost 1.32. It appears you can view the release history since then here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/serialization/doc/release.html

Other than that I'd suggest asking on the boost mailing list: http://www.boost.org/community/groups.html#users