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Std::auto_ptr has been replaced with std::unique_ptr, boost::regex has been replaced with std::regex.
CEREAL
Is used to provide the client/server serialisations, and uses JSON text. There was an option to use BINARY which is a lot faster. But then we lose the backward compatibility, and more importantly the client/server communication may break due to byte order incompatibility. i.e when client/server are on different hardware.
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