<cpu_sched_debug>: problems involving the choice of applications to run.
<work_fetch_debug>: problems involving work fetch (which projects are asked for work, and how much).
<rr_simulation>: problems involving jobs being run in high-priority mode.
<sched_op_debug>: problems involving scheduler operations and other low level information.

• If output file is missing on startup, flag task as error.
  
• Let project specify directories in logical file names.
  
• Fix security vulnerability involving logical file names.
  
• Make "reread config files" work for ncpus.
  
• Support fetch of files over GUI RPC; allow projects to supply their own web-based GUI.
  
• FreeBSD: check for AVX
  
• Support GUI RPCs as HTTP Post requests.
  
• Register user consent to terms of use.
  
• Enable "Other options" in simple view if no client connected.
  
• Clear "vm_extensions_disabled" flag on startup.
  
• Fix work fetch bug when max_concurrent used.
  
• Unsuspend jobs before telling them to quit.
  
• Sanity-check job runtime limits.
  
• Fix overflow in OpenCL GPU FLOPS calculation.
  
• Windows: show processor group info at startup
  
• Fix stall if --skip_cpu_benchmarks
  
• Fix crash in RSS feed fetch
  
• Windows: fix GUI RPC password generation when running in a VM
  
• Windows: make --dir work
  

Available installers:

Macintosh 7.16.6
- https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.6_macOSX_x86_64.zip
- https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.6_macOSX_x86_64.zip
- https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.6_macOSX_SymbolTables.zip

Windows 7.16.5
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.5_windows_x86_64.exe
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.5_windows_x86_64_vbox.exe

Time to see if the bug that causes 64bit version to crash under WINE as soon as I switch to advanced view has gone.

Is it worth my joining the Google group and posting the unhandled exception message I get?

08-Jun-2020 13:48:55: Unrecognized XML tag '<android_debug>' in LOG_FLAGS::parse; skipping
08-Jun-2020 13:55:04: Unrecognized XML tag '<android_debug>' in LOG_FLAGS::parse; skipping

Because the old version put them there - which was a bug. The new version has the bug removed, so it's surprised by something that it knows isn't supposed to be there.

Make a trivial change to the Event Log flags (Ctrl+Shift+F) and save it. Revert it again, if you wish. That writes a whole, new, clean copy of the file - and the problem's gone.

I've released BOINC 7.16.9 for alpha testing. This is a Macintosh-only release, and as usual is available from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php. Please report test results to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php or this email list.

The main purpose of this release is to fix some issues with displaying graphics under the soon to be released MacOS 11 Big Sur.

One of the issues under MacOS 11 is that, when you click the Manager's "Show graphics" button, the graphics app's close button is disabled. (This will be fixed in future builds of the graphics apps.)

As a workaround, the "Show graphics" button now changes to "Stop graphics" while the graphics app is running, providing a convenient way to close it. (As before, you can also close it by doing a control-click on the graphic app's Dock icon and selecting "quit.")

This release has a number of other bug fixes and added features since version 7.16.6, including:

• Don't let user attach to account manager as a project
  
• Parse config.xml correctly for account managers
  
• Client: allow specifying device name in cc_config.xml
  
• Mac: Improved screensaver logic for OS 10.15 Catalina
  
• Client: correctly initialize log flags to tasks, sched_ops, file_xfer
  
• Manager: Added a warning when the manager detects a second copy of itself
  
• Update translation files
  
• Update project list
  
• Client: measure disk usage in terms of allocated disk space, not file size
  
• Client: avoid CPU starvation when GPU computing is suspended
  
• Client: don't show "no work" messages as notices
  
• Client: let a project master URL change from http: to https: without involving the user
  
• Client: if AM reply includes a project we're attached to under a different account, honor the params in the AM reply, e.g resource share
  * Manager: change "Show graphics" button to "Stop graphics" when graphics running

Cheers,
--Charlie

or refer to your partners at Oracle

Nice, but let's start at the beginning shall we?
What is the actual system you run it on? Windows 10 version 2004.
Do you run Linux in a VM? If so which one? YES - I've already told you - the Oracle VM shipped together with BOINC.
Have you tried a different one? NO - are there grounds to doubt your competence ?
Have you set up the VM yourself, or does it come as a package? I followed Oracle and filled in the blanks. I'm a newbie in Linux - I don't know what else to do.

or refer to your partners at Oracle

You mean the makers of VirtualBox? They're not our partners. BOINC ships a version of VirtualBox included in one of the installers as an optional download, because we know the version that's included works with BOINC and all the projects that use VirtualBox. Not all VBox versions work well with all projects.

I have a BOINC 7.16.11 system in Windows 10 2004 under the the same VM - available memory here is noted around 1000MB, disk around 24GB total, 4GB free..

What is the actual system you run it on?

Windows 10 version 2004.

Have you tried a different one?

NO - are there grounds to doubt your competence ?

Have you set up the VM yourself, or does it come as a package?

I followed Oracle and filled in the blanks. I'm a newbie in Linux - I don't know what else to do.

That's why I wouldn't dream of any other - it's BOINC's Oracle's version of VirtualBox I've used.

I respect that it's important for researchers to eliminate 'red herrings'.
Please take this problem seriously - it is not a mirage.
There are many levels involved, to which I certainly do not not have access.
Please find the source

the beta d/l site