Changes and Information

Please briefly list the changes (main added features, changed items, or corrected bugs) made:

The boost dependency is now also bundled by cloning a git repo instead of using an archive included in the project.
Boost version is updated from 1.75.0 to 1.84.0

If need be, add additional information and what the reviewer should look out for in particular:

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Merge Request - Guideline Checklist

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[x] Every addressed issue is linked (use the "Closes #ISSUE" keyword below)
[x] New code adheres to coding guidelines
[x] No large data files have been added (files should in sum not exceed 100 KB, avoid PDFs, Word docs, etc.)
[x] Tests are added for new functionality and a local test run was successful (with and without OpenMP)
[x] Appropriate documentation for new functionality has been added (Doxygen in the code and Markdown files if necessary)
[x] Proper attention to licenses, especially no new third-party software with conflicting license has been added
[ ] (For ABM development) Checked benchmark results and ran and posted a local test above from before and after development to ensure performance is monitored.

[ ] Corresponding issue(s) is/are linked and addressed
[ ] Code is clean of development artifacts (no deactivated or commented code lines, no debugging printouts, etc.)
[ ] Appropriate unit tests have been added, CI passes, code coverage and performance is acceptable (did not decrease)
[ ] No large data files added in the whole history of commits(files should in sum not exceed 100 KB, avoid PDFs, Word docs, etc.)
[ ] On merge, add 2-5 lines with the changes (main added features, changed items, or corrected bugs) to the merge-commit-message. This can be taken from the briefly-list-the-changes above (best case) or the separate commit messages (worst case).

Closes #983 Also: Closes #930 indirectly.