diff --git a/Formula/boost.rb b/Formula/boost.rb
index b936f4d5e7f..b8377353cb6 100644
--- a/Formula/boost.rb
+++ b/Formula/boost.rb
@@ -2,15 +2,14 @@ require 'formula'
 
 class Boost < Formula
   homepage 'http://www.boost.org'
-  url 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.48.0/boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2'
-  md5 'd1e9a7a7f532bb031a3c175d86688d95'
+  url 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.49.0/boost_1_49_0.tar.bz2'
+  md5 '0d202cb811f934282dea64856a175698'
 
   head 'http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk', :using => :svn
 
   bottle do
-    # Bottle built on 10.7.2 using XCode 4.2
-    url 'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/boost-1.48.0-bottle.tar.gz'
-    sha1 'c7871ddd020a24e3b0cfd3c9a352a1210b68b372'
+    url 'https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/boost-1.49.0-bottle.tar.gz'
+    sha1 '6b706780670a8bec5b3e0355f5dfeeaa37d9a41e'
   end
 
   depends_on "icu4c" if ARGV.include? "--with-icu"
@@ -28,18 +27,6 @@ class Boost < Formula
     ]
   end
 
-  def patches
-    # https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6131
-    #
-    # #define foreach BOOST_FOREACH causes weird compile error in certain
-    # circumstances with boost 1.48
-    #
-    # #define foreach BOOST_FOREACH causes compile error "'boost::BOOST_FOREACH'
-    # has not been declared" on its line if it appears after #include
-    # <boost/foreach.hpp> and before certain other boost headers.
-    DATA unless ARGV.build_head?
-  end
-
   def install
     if ARGV.build_universal? and not ARGV.include? "--without-python"
       archs = archs_for_command("python")
@@ -99,63 +86,3 @@ class Boost < Formula
 end
 
 __END__
-Index: /boost/foreach_fwd.hpp
-===================================================================
---- /boost/foreach_fwd.hpp  (revision 62661)
-+++ /boost/foreach_fwd.hpp  (revision 75540)
-@@ -15,4 +15,6 @@
- #define BOOST_FOREACH_FWD_HPP
-
-+#include <utility> // for std::pair
-+
- // This must be at global scope, hence the uglified name
- enum boost_foreach_argument_dependent_lookup_hack
-@@ -26,4 +28,7 @@
- namespace foreach
- {
-+    template<typename T>
-+    std::pair<T, T> in_range(T begin, T end);
-+
-     ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-     // boost::foreach::tag
-@@ -47,4 +52,22 @@
- } // namespace foreach
-
-+// Workaround for unfortunate https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6131
-+namespace BOOST_FOREACH
-+{
-+    using foreach::in_range;
-+    using foreach::tag;
-+
-+    template<typename T>
-+    struct is_lightweight_proxy
-+      : foreach::is_lightweight_proxy<T>
-+    {};
-+
-+    template<typename T>
-+    struct is_noncopyable
-+      : foreach::is_noncopyable<T>
-+    {};
-+
-+} // namespace BOOST_FOREACH
-+
- } // namespace boost
-
-Index: /boost/foreach.hpp
-===================================================================
---- /boost/foreach.hpp  (revision 75077)
-+++ /boost/foreach.hpp  (revision 75540)
-@@ -166,5 +166,5 @@
- //   at the global namespace for your type.
- template<typename T>
--inline boost::foreach::is_lightweight_proxy<T> *
-+inline boost::BOOST_FOREACH::is_lightweight_proxy<T> *
- boost_foreach_is_lightweight_proxy(T *&, BOOST_FOREACH_TAG_DEFAULT) { return 0; }
-
-@@ -191,5 +191,5 @@
- //   at the global namespace for your type.
- template<typename T>
--inline boost::foreach::is_noncopyable<T> *
-+inline boost::BOOST_FOREACH::is_noncopyable<T> *
- boost_foreach_is_noncopyable(T *&, BOOST_FOREACH_TAG_DEFAULT) { return 0; }
-