The new version is available from the
BOINC download page.
See
the release notes for more information.
Some of the changes for this release are:
- New: Updated localization files
- New: Added accessibility support for advanced view (Mac)
- New: Added support for parsing username and password information from environment variables
- New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of ignore device through the use of a configuration file option
- New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain applications are run through the use of a configuration file option
- New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS specific configuration screen
- New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu
- New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity menu
- New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup Project" by setting its resource share to 0
- New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to 25%)
- New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)
- New: Support for custom installers to automatically cause new accounts to join a specific team when atteching to a project for the first time (Windows)
- New: Support for Nvidia Fermi cards
- New: Added support for 'Transfer at most X Megabytes every N days' preference
- Fix: Name resolution issues (Mac)
- Fix: Activity Menu display issues (Linux)
- Fix: Reduce CPU load in dealing with communications between manager and core client (Windows)
- Fix: Properly display project descriptions on Windows XP machines in the attach to project wizard
- Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
- Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
- Fix: Mac Installer for non-admin installs
- Fix: Recover from crashes in Nvidia and ATI GPU functions (Linux, Mac)
- Fix: Reap child processes spawned from a wrapper on Posix systems (Linux, Mac)
- Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their icons in the project list
- Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via messages.