BOINC 5.10.28 is available. Please, update.

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BOINC 5.10.28 is available. Please, update.

Why?? What does it do over and above 5.10.20?

F.

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BOINC 5.10.28 is available. Please, update.

And hawe been a long time! But since a couple of days ago the recomended!

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All time #1 M.U.R.C. Cruncher!

BOINC 5.10.28 is available. Please, update.

Why?? What does it do over and above 5.10.20?

F.

Got to agree with Fred W: if we're being asked to update then surely there should be some explanantion of what the advantages would be? The Release notes are generic to version 5.10 so no details of any of the minor incremental changes made so far.

The update from 5.10.20 in my case to 5.10.28 hardly sounds as if it's going to contain anything major. Perhaps we'd be wasting our own time and that of Berkeley if all we're getting is some extremely minor tweak?

Isn't 6.0.0 due soon anyway? The sooner BOINC is made compatible with Vista the better: I'm fed up of having to Unblock it each time I reboot the PC!

Crunch on regardless!
Kieron.

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Isn't 6.0.0 due soon anyway? The sooner BOINC is made compatible with Vista the better: I'm fed up of having to Unblock it each time I reboot the PC!

Crunch on regardless!
Kieron.

My bet is that is going to be a couple more months at least.

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BOINC 5.10.28 is available. Please, update.

Why?? What does it do over and above 5.10.20?

F.

Got to agree with Fred W: if we're being asked to update then surely there should be some explanantion of what the advantages would be? The Release notes are generic to version 5.10 so no details of any of the minor incremental changes made so far.

The update from 5.10.20 in my case to 5.10.28 hardly sounds as if it's going to contain anything major. Perhaps we'd be wasting our own time and that of Berkeley if all we're getting is some extremely minor tweak?

Isn't 6.0.0 due soon anyway? The sooner BOINC is made compatible with Vista the better: I'm fed up of having to Unblock it each time I reboot the PC!

Crunch on regardless!
Kieron.

What do you mean?
What is WinVista or BOINC doing?
What you must do?

..I thought I'll update my PC to WinVista soon..

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What do you mean?
What is WinVista or BOINC doing?
What you must do?

Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) blocks unrecognized startup programs from automatically launching to protect the system from trojans/worms. UAC also protects the \\Program Files (and in the case of 64bit Vista, the \\Program Files (x86) folder) from allowing executables from writing data to subfolders so that trojans and worms cannot easily corrupt a system.


Currently, the only options for BOINC on Vista is to:

A) Install it in a different folder other than the default (such as C:\\BOINC) and manually allow BOINC to start on startup.

B) Include A and install BOINC as a system service so that it starts up automatically.

C) Turn off UAC, bypassing most of the security features of Vista and making Vista no more secure than a box with Windows XP on it.

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Whats new on 5.10.28?

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Whats new on 5.10.28?

I have to guess you mean "what's new on 5.10.28 compared to 5.10.20?"

5.10.21 changelog

- Win Install: ignore string case before comparing process names.

Preferences: Apply David Barnard's patches to fix #363: per-day

time preferences work incorrectly.

MGR: Preferences dialogs use cached preferences if connected to older

pre-5.10.18 client (before new get_global_prefs_working_struct RPC)

- Mac screensaver: replace image in screensaver control panel with

new logo.

- Mac MGR: if BOINC is running as a service / daemon, connect to

BOINC Client before creating menubar icon menu to work around

a problem of unknown cause which sometimes made icon unresponsive.

- Mac: add -daemon flag to script for starting BOINC as a service.

- CC: fix bug so we do new version check when client is first started

as well as every 14 days thereafter. Display message in red.

- MGR: Fix #388: Snooze menu item is disabled and not checked if user

selects RUN_MODE_NEVER; it is enabled and checked if user selects

Snooze; otherwise it is enabled and not checked.

- Mac Installer: Remove old BOINC Manager and screensaver bundles before

installing new ones to guarantee a clean install. Updates for Grid

Republic.

- API: initialize sigaction struct in X graphics code

- Manager: port David's checkin of 10 Aug 2007: show the AMS name, not

the skin name, in Wizard

- Mac SCR: prevent double delete of RPC_CLIENT rpc on closing screensaver.

- Screen Saver: Add additional information about the work running when no graphics are available.

Increased the size to the box displaying the message to accommodate larger image sizes.

Add code to center images if less then the allowed max size of 450x166

- SCR: If the secure screensaver desktop checkbox is checked, password on resume,

just display the status of the active workunits so the user will have

something interesting to look at.

- SCR: Fix random crashes on Vista for machines that are extra picky about

manifest files.

- SCR: Don't allow graphics at all, since that can disable the ability to

show graphics on the desktop.

- client: clean up (old undergrad-written) code related to pers file xfer.

The main goal is to fix a bug where,

if a file is deleted from a project's download server,

a client will keep trying to download it for 2 weeks.

A download "file not found" is a permanent error, not transient.

(fixes #383)

In general, revised and renamed things to clarify the

distinction between permanent and transient errors.

Old functions:

handle_xfer_failure(), try_next_url(), xfer_failed(), retry_or_backoff()

New functions:

permanent_failure(), transient_failure()

- manager: compile fix for win (don't include sys/wait.h)

- Screen Saver: Fix bug related to the check to the secure screensaver box. If graphics are not available, then rotate

through the currently running results (it will change every 10 seconds) for display so that all are presented

- Manager: Fix a compiler warning.

- client: first pass at fixing a fundamental design flaw:

there's a single GUI_HTTP object,

and it works only if used sequentially,

i.e. an op is started only after the previous one ends.

This breaks if a GUI RPC triggerse and op while

a project-list fetch (initiated by the client itself) is in progress.

Or if two managers are connected at the same time,

and both do HTTP ops.

The solution: have a separate GUI_HTTP object for each GUI_RPC_CONN,

and an additional one for use by the client itself.

- client: finished up the above

- Manager: During an auto-attach initiated by a project_init.xml file, Mozilla based browsers are checking cookies in the domain

(ex: worldcommunitygrid.org) for a project while IE cookies were only being checked for the full project dns (www.worldcommunitygrid.org).

IE has been changed so that it will also check the domain.

This mechanism is generic and can be used by any project or account manager.

5.10.23 changelog

- Mac V5 GFX API: In setMacPList(), if resource already exists, don't

call getPathToThisApp() because it leaves a zombie process.

This call probably won't be used in V6 applications.

- Mac V5 GFX API: Fix old zombie process bug (I hope). getPathToThisApp()

should call pclose(), not fclose().

- client: fix bug where delay request from project is ignored

if no results are returned.

Also, made the "Deferred" messages conditional on sched_op_debug

Fixes #430 (from Rattledagger)

- DEP: Update libCurl to 7.17.0

- TRAY: Introduce BOINC Tray for Windows. It's primary goal is

to keep the CC up to date with when the last time the user

has used the computer. It has no UI. It is just meant to

be launhced at startup and let run in the background.


5.10.24 changelog
- client: add <simple_gui_only> config flag

- GUI RPC: add disallow_attach and simple_gui_only flags

to CC_STATUS structure

- client: timezone reflects daylight savings time (Win)

from David Barnard; fixes #334

- GUI RPC: add <success/> replies for ops that don't return anything

- GUI RPC: check args for project_attach

- GUI RPC: return error (not blank) if no prefs override file

- add error string for ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS

- client: zero out xfer_speed in HTTP_OP constructor

(may fix problem w/ #INF bandwidth display)

- client: when a job finishes, read last (not first) 63KB of stderr

- client: parse <cpid_time> in scheduler reply;

add cpid_time field to PROJECT.

This defaults to the user_create_time.

In deciding which CPID to send in a scheduler request,

use the one with oldest cpid_time (not user_create_time).

This is the client half of fixing a bug that causes

CPID to flip/flop between to values in a certain case.

- client: CPU scheduler: if a project has 2 jobs with same deadline,

give preference to jobs already started

- Manager: clean up text in system tray balloon

- Client: use dd-MMM-yyyy format for dates;

mm/dd/yyyy is ambiguous and mixed-endian

- client: restore <slot> element on GUI RPC result XML

(needed by BOINCSpy)

- client: CPU sched fix

- client: performance tweak for CPU sched

- client: fix /proc/cpuinfo parsing for linux 2.6.23, powerPC

- client: get_proxy_settings GUI RPC requires authentication

- client: improve log messages

5.10.26 changelog
- Fixes to installation of boinctray.exe (activity detection
helper app).
- Support for <alt_platform> elements in cc_config.xml
- Restore <active_task_state> elements in client_state.xml file
(used by a 3rd-party app)

5.10.27 changelog
Mac: In XCode script, wait for expansion of nib stuffit file to finish before

linking screensaver.

- GUI RPC: fix format of <auth2> request

- GUI RPC: don't enable network on bad request

- client: remove unparsed XML error for <active_task_state>

- client: remove spurious error if include <alt_platform> in cc_config.xml

- client: read_file_string was modified sometime ago to support tail

functionality, we really do want only the last 63KB of stderr

for science applications.

- TRAY: No longer depend on boinc.dll as it has a dependancy on MSVCRT 8.0

which is only installed to the BOINC directory.

- TRAY: On Vista systems, only processes started in session 0, i.e. services,

and elevated processes can create shared memory segments. All others

fail with an access denied error code. BOINCTray needs to be able to

ignore the error and attempt to re-attach to the shared memory segment

every 5 seconds until it is successful. When BOINC starts it'll be able

to created the shared memory segment and then boinctray will be able to

attach to it.

- MGR: Check on account creation if wxGetUserName() returned an empty

string and if it did assign the output of wxGetUserId() to

ai->user_name instead. (fixes #440)

- client: fixed bug that broke idle detection on Unix.

The problem: the various checks were surrounded by things like

#ifdef HAVE__DEV_MOUSE

If the host on which the client is built doesn't have a mouse

(as is the case with our build machine)

then the resulting executable doesn't check /dev/mouse,

even if it exists on the target host.

- removed configure checks for /dev/mouse, /dev/kbd, and /dev/tty1

5.10.28 changelog
- client: add <max_stdout_file_size> and <max_stderr_file_size>

cc_config.xml options to change log file size limit

from the default of 2 MB

Mac: Fix bugs in scripts for building wxMac-2.6.3; fix XCode project

when using debug build of wxMac-2.6.3.

- MGR: Fixed broken URLs in the Help menu. The URLs are only broken if the

Manager was built with the wxWidgets unicode variant.

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Thanks!

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Astro, Thanks for the info. Where would we be without you?

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Astro, Thanks for the info. Where would we be without you?

Well you could read the BOINC versions Change Log thread over on the BOINC website :-)

However I know this forum gets a lot more readers than the BOINC message boards, so thanks Tony for posting that here too.

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Sir Arthur C Clarke 1917-2008

Heck, you mean people actually read that foreign language??? I know I don't generally make it a habit. LOL

Why?? What does it do over and above 5.10.20?

Bug fixes. Surprise! Surprise!

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LOL .. Here's what I get clicking the Boinc changelog link posted earlier:

Notice: Undefined index: sorting in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 49

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 49
BOINC versions Change Log

Message boards : BOINC core client : BOINC versions Change Log

Fatal error: Call to undefined function show_button() in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 117

I think there needs to be a changelog and bug tracking system for the Boinc change log :P

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

LOL .. Here's what I get clicking the Boinc changelog link posted earlier:

Notice: Undefined index: sorting in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 49

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 49
BOINC versions Change Log

Message boards : BOINC core client : BOINC versions Change Log

Fatal error: Call to undefined function show_button() in /home/boincadm/projects/dev/html/user/forum_thread.php on line 117

I think there needs to be a changelog and bug tracking system for the Boinc change log :P

Yup - the entire BOINC dev message board is completely snafu'd.

I've reported it as trac ticket [trac]#458[/trac] - not that it will do any good, but it's always nice to have a permanent record of these things.

I think there needs to be a changelog and bug tracking system for the Boinc change log :P

Yup - the entire BOINC dev message board is completely snafu'd.

It's fixed now.

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Now the BOINC V4.x -user can update to the new version, because the PROXY is working well?

The only Version of BOINC which 'report immediately' (preferences-time) is V5.10.13 or?
In other Versions this feature will never come back, or?

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Now the BOINC V4.x -user can update to the new version, because the PROXY is working well?

I don't see a mention of that issue, and don't think it could be addressed properly until version6, because, if I understand correctly, there is a major code library involved. [ and the proxy issue may be rare and hard to diagnose, many older clients may not be because of this issue at all, instead they may just be set and forget... and an update won't fix those coz they are forgotten :P]

The only Version of BOINC which 'report immediately' (preferences-time) is V5.10.13 or?
In other Versions this feature will never come back, or?

I understood that has two issues (Again only the way I understand it):
#1: if the result is reported before the upload settles, you get 'Can't find missing file' or some such... (maybe a source of validate errors?)... I think to set "Computer is connected to the Internet about every " to greater thatn zero avoids this.

#2: needlessly high server load. not my opinion make up your own mind, read BOINC Client: The evils of 'Returning Results Immediately'by Boinc Developer ROM Walton

Jason

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

#2: needlessly high server load.

IMO, I see a case for having it batch a few, but the reality is that you're typically not going to be batching 20 at one time, so the actual savings are less than what Rom posted, perhaps even 50% less (reporting 10 at one time instead of 20)...

Brian