diff --git a/doc/Attic/history.html b/doc/Attic/history.html
index a1793ddb..ed9b467c 100644
--- a/doc/Attic/history.html
+++ b/doc/Attic/history.html
@@ -24,6 +24,25 @@
       </P>
       <HR>
       <p></p>
+      <P>Boost 1.33.0 Hotfix</P>
+      <UL>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed broken makefiles.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed configuration setup to allow building with VC7.1 - STLport-4.6.2 when 
+            using /Zc:wchar_t.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Moved declarations class-inline in static_mutex.hpp so that SGI Irix compiler 
+            can cope.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Added missing #includes to fileiter.hpp and cpp_regex_traits.hpp, this is 
+            probably an SGI Irix specific fix.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed a bug where non-greedy repeats could in certain strange curcumstances 
+            repeat more times than their maximum value.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed the value returned by basic_regex&lt;&gt;::empty() from a default 
+            constructed object.</LI></UL>
       <P>Boost 1.33.0.</P>
       <UL>
          <LI>
diff --git a/doc/history.html b/doc/history.html
index a1793ddb..ed9b467c 100644
--- a/doc/history.html
+++ b/doc/history.html
@@ -24,6 +24,25 @@
       </P>
       <HR>
       <p></p>
+      <P>Boost 1.33.0 Hotfix</P>
+      <UL>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed broken makefiles.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed configuration setup to allow building with VC7.1 - STLport-4.6.2 when 
+            using /Zc:wchar_t.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Moved declarations class-inline in static_mutex.hpp so that SGI Irix compiler 
+            can cope.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Added missing #includes to fileiter.hpp and cpp_regex_traits.hpp, this is 
+            probably an SGI Irix specific fix.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed a bug where non-greedy repeats could in certain strange curcumstances 
+            repeat more times than their maximum value.</LI>
+         <LI>
+            Fixed the value returned by basic_regex&lt;&gt;::empty() from a default 
+            constructed object.</LI></UL>
       <P>Boost 1.33.0.</P>
       <UL>
          <LI>
diff --git a/test/regress/test.hpp b/test/regress/test.hpp
index 2668abfe..442e6680 100644
--- a/test/regress/test.hpp
+++ b/test/regress/test.hpp
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ void do_test(const charT& c, const tagT& tag)
 #ifndef BOOST_NO_STD_LOCALE
    test_info<charT>::set_typename(typeid(boost::basic_regex<charT, boost::cpp_regex_traits<charT> >).name());
    boost::basic_regex<charT, boost::cpp_regex_traits<charT> > e1;
+   static bool done_empty_test = false;
+   if(done_empty_test == false)
+   {
+      test_empty(e1);
+      done_empty_test = true;
+   }
    if(test_locale::cpp_locale_state() == test_locale::test_with_locale)
       e1.imbue(test_locale::cpp_locale());
    if(test_locale::cpp_locale_state() != test_locale::no_test)
diff --git a/test/regress/test_not_regex.hpp b/test/regress/test_not_regex.hpp
index bd193b5c..8b0cdeb9 100644
--- a/test/regress/test_not_regex.hpp
+++ b/test/regress/test_not_regex.hpp
@@ -25,6 +25,31 @@
 //
 struct test_invalid_regex_tag{};
 
+template<class charT, class traits>
+void test_empty(boost::basic_regex<charT, traits>& r)
+{
+   if(!r.empty())
+   {
+      BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Invalid value returned from basic_regex<>::empty().", charT);
+   }
+   if(r.size())
+   {
+      BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Invalid value returned from basic_regex<>::size().", charT);
+   }
+   if(r.str().size())
+   {
+      BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Invalid value returned from basic_regex<>::str().", charT);
+   }
+   if(r.begin() != r.end())
+   {
+      BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Invalid value returned from basic_regex<>::begin().", charT);
+   }
+   if(r.status() == 0)
+   {
+      BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Invalid value returned from basic_regex<>::status().", charT);
+   }
+}
+
 template<class charT, class traits>
 void test(boost::basic_regex<charT, traits>& r, const test_invalid_regex_tag&)
 {
@@ -39,6 +64,7 @@ void test(boost::basic_regex<charT, traits>& r, const test_invalid_regex_tag&)
       {
          BOOST_REGEX_TEST_ERROR("Expression compiled when it should not have done so.", charT);
       }
+      test_empty(r);
    }
    catch(...)
    {
@@ -58,6 +84,7 @@ void test(boost::basic_regex<charT, traits>& r, const test_invalid_regex_tag&)
    catch(const boost::bad_expression&)
    {
       have_catch = true;
+      test_empty(r);
    }
    catch(const std::runtime_error& r)
    {
diff --git a/test/regress/test_simple_repeats.cpp b/test/regress/test_simple_repeats.cpp
index 069c3e32..e095ac20 100644
--- a/test/regress/test_simple_repeats.cpp
+++ b/test/regress/test_simple_repeats.cpp
@@ -98,6 +98,20 @@ void test_simple_repeats()
    TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{ 2 , }", perl, "aaaaa", match_default, make_array(0, 5, -2, -2));
    TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{ 2 }", perl, "aaa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, -2));
    TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a\\{\\}", perl, "a{}", match_default, make_array(0, 3, -2, -2));
+   
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?", perl, "a", match_default, make_array(-2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?", perl, "aa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?", perl, "aaa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?", perl, "aaaa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, 2, 4, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?", perl, "aaaaa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, 2, 4, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?$", perl, "aa", match_default, make_array(0, 2, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?$", perl, "aaa", match_default, make_array(0, 3, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?$", perl, "aaaa", match_default, make_array(0, 4, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("a{2,4}?$", perl, "aaaaa", match_default, make_array(1, 5, -2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("^a{0,1}?$", perl, "aaaaa", match_default, make_array(-2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("^(?:a){0,1}?$", perl, "aaaaa", match_default, make_array(-2, -2));
+   TEST_REGEX_SEARCH("^a(?:bc)?", perl, "abcbc", match_any|match_all, make_array(-2, -2));
+
    TEST_INVALID_REGEX("a{}", perl);
    TEST_INVALID_REGEX("a{", perl);
    TEST_INVALID_REGEX("a{1", perl);