The Quantlib project is aimed at providing a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance. QuantLib is a free open-source library for modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life. QuantLib is written in C++ with a clean object model, and is then exported to different languages such as Python, Ruby, and Scheme. An initial Excel add-in is also available. There are ports to the .NET framework in C# (http://www.quantlib.net" and http://www.capetools.net/). Bindings to other languages (including Java), and porting to ddd, Matlab/Octave, S-PLUS/R, Mathematica, COM/CORBA/SOAP architectures, FpML, are under consideration. See the extensions page for details. Appreciated by quantitative analysts and developers, it is intended for academics and practitioners alike, eventually promoting a stronger interaction between them. QuantLib offers tools that are useful both for practical implementation and for advanced modeling, with features such as market conventions, yield curve models, solvers, PDEs, Monte Carlo (low-discrepancy included), exotic options, VAR, and so on. QuantLib requires Boost, which is also available from SlackBuilds.org.