Where do I find version 7.3.2 to download?

Where do I find version 7.3.2 to download?

A new version of BOINC client is ready for public use.

Bug fix over previous public release:
* Fix problem that was causing scheduler RPCs to fail on Yoyo@home (HTTP status code 400)

Download: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Release Notes: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes
Version History: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VersionHistory

Thanks to all the alpha testers and community at large for helping us figure this issue out and get a hot fix released.

----- Rom

@ECHO OFF
Set CD=%CD%
Set SCRIPTDIR=%~dp0
Rem Removing of groups and accounts
ECHO Removing Groups and Accounts
net localgroup boinc_admins boinc_master /delete
net localgroup boinc_projects boinc_project /delete
net localgroup boinc_admins /delete
net localgroup boinc_users /delete
net localgroup boinc_projects /delete

Rem removing User Rights Assignments
ECHO Removing User Rights Assignments
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeNetworkLogonRight -u boinc_master
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeNetworkLogonRight -u boinc_project
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u boinc_project
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight -u boinc_master
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeServiceLogonRight -u boinc_master
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeServiceLogonRight -u boinc_project
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u boinc_project
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeDebugPrivilege -u
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u boinc_users
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u boinc_admins
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u boinc_users
%CD%:\ntrights -r SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege -u boinc_admins

Rem Removing BOINC_Master directory
ECHO Removing BOINC Master Directory
cd %homepath%
cd..
RMDIR /S /Q boinc_maste*
chdir /d %SCRIPTDIR%

We've released version 7.3.11 of BOINC.

Changes include:

- A brand new mechanism for displaying notices.
To test: look at your list of notices and verify they are all there. At some point we will need to test pictures and video content.
- Recent changes to support Fast-User switching on Windows and Mac.
To test: if you use Fast-User switching, verify that BOINC Manager can start with Admin and Limited accounts.
- New icon sets from Jacob Klein.
To test: Our new icons should look good at various resolutions and various text sizes (DPI settings).

Please report test results using the BOINC Alpha Test web site: [url]
http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/alpha/[/url]

You can (and should) report positive as well as negative test results. Please include test results for any of the visible areas of test you are able to test.
This information helps us decide when versions can safely be released to the public.

The complete test matrix can be found here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_matrix.php

The first time you use the BOINC Alpha Test web site, you'll need to create an account. Please let us know if you have any questions or problems.

Thanks in advance.

----- Rom

I have posted version 7.3.13 of BOINC for the Mac. It is basically the same as 7.3.11 for Windows and Linux, but with Mac-specific bug fixes.

Note: this version of BOINC requires at least OS 10.5.

Cheers,
--Charlie

On further thought, I'm going to change things back to the way they were, namely

1) workunit.rsc_memory_bound is used only by the server;
it won't send a job if rsc_memory_bound > host's available RAM
2) the client aborts a job if working set size > host's available RAM
3) the client will run a set of jobs only if the sum of their WSSs
fits in available RAM
(i.e. if a job's WSS is close to all available RAM,
it would run that job and nothing else)

The reason for not aborting jobs when WSS > rsc_memory_bound is that
it requires projects to come up with very accurate estimates of RAM usage,
which I don't think is feasible in general.
Also, it will lead to lots of aborted jobs, which is bad for volunteer morale.

-- David

v7.3.18 won't run OpenCL GPU tasks - device is detected, but 'unavailable'. Two reports, one for NVIDIA, one for Intel GPU, both Windows.

v7.3.18 won't run OpenCL GPU tasks - device is detected, but 'unavailable'. Two reports, one for NVIDIA, one for Intel GPU, both Windows.

Make it a third report. It explains why I could not run Einstein@Home Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (GWopencl-nvidia-Beta) on my GTX 660 Ti (Win7 64-bit).

I had to abort them all and just run the CUDA tasks.

Howdy Folks,

Last week we forked the source tree to begin stabilizing the 7.4 release. This release was primarily about adding image/audio/video support for notices and some setup work on Windows.

For the initial release of 7.4 we are going to focus on Windows and Mac. We will follow-up with a Linux release when we have some more experience with wxWidgets 3.0.1. wxWidgets 3.0.1 was just released yesterday.

Later today I'll build a 7.4.1 release on Windows and kick off testing that build.

We will need to cover all the test areas for the public release of 7.4 so I'll be re-enabling all the relevant test areas for 7.4.1.

Be sure to touch as many test areas and test cases as you can.

Thanks in advance.

----- Rom

Howdy Folks,

We have released BOINC 7.4.8 for testing.
The major changes since 7.2 are:

- Notices can now contain images and video. (To test this you'll need to attach to the BOINC Alpha project; see the testing instructions).
- The advanced preferences dialog validates its inputs; e.g. it won't let you enter -1 or 110 for a percentage.
- We switched to a new major version of the GUI toolkit (wxWidgets). This caused many small changes in layout and appearance.

We updated the test instructions, especially the "BOINC Manager Notices" and "Preferences tests" sections. Please review the test instructions carefully:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_matrix.php

Please report your test results to: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Please report any bugs to boinc_alpha@ssl.berkeley.edu

Thanks in advance.

----- Rom

Howdy Folks,

We have released BOINC 7.4.12 for testing.

Changes since 7.4.8 are:

- Warn volunteers when running a 32-bit version of BOINC on a 64-bit machine that VirtualBox cannot be detected. It should display an event log entry suggesting that you install the 64-bit version of BOINC.

- Reschedule jobs for later execution if they fail to start because the system is out of memory (there's no easy way to test this, but if you saw this problem
before, keep your eyes open for it).

- Remove virtual machine (VM) processes in several failure scenarios.
VM tasks consist of two processes; a wrapper (vboxwrapper) and the VM itself (vboxheadless). There were bugs where the VM continued to run after the wrapper had exited or crashed.
To test: run a VM task (RNA World, ATLAS@home, vLHC@home, etc.).
Kill the wrapper (e.g. using the Windows task manager).
Verify that the corresponding VM process exits.

- Generic detection of OpenCL devices.
BOINC should now detect all OpenCL devices and report them to the server. You can test this if you have a Parallela board. There should be a line in the event log saying the device was detected, and a <coproc> entry in scheduler_request_*.xml files.

Changes since 7.2 are:

- Notices can now contain images and video. (To test this you'll need to attach to the BOINC Alpha project; see the testing instructions).
- The advanced preferences dialog validates its inputs; e.g. it won't let you enter -1 or 110 for a percentage.
- We switched to a new major version of the GUI toolkit (wxWidgets). This caused many small changes in layout and appearance.

We updated the test instructions, especially the "BOINC Manager Notices" and "Preferences tests" sections. Please review the test instructions carefully: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_matrix.php

Please report your test results to: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Please report any bugs to boinc_alpha@ssl.berkeley.edu.

Thanks in advance.

----- Rom

For anybody that has an Android phone but is not already on the boinc-android-testing list.

----- Rom

Rom Walton, BOINC developer wrote:

Howdy Folks,

A few days ago we pushed out a new build of the Android software that contains a revamped attach process and social media sharing features.

Please review the test matrix for the Android GUI here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_matrix.php

Specifically we need to test attaching to each project in the project list and attaching to Ralph@home (Rosetta@home's test project). You can manually attach to the test project using http://ralph.bakerlab.org/ for the project URL.

We would also like to cover the cases where people use two or more email addresses with valid and invalid passwords across multiple projects and properly handling attaching to World Community Grid in combination with other BOINC projects.

Be the first to brag to your friends about using your device for science by using our new social media features. After attaching to a project or account manager you can share with your favorite social media network.

Please report your test results to: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php?version=7.4.14

Please include which projects you tested against.

If you have not already created an account to report test results, please follow this link to create a new account: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/create_account_form.php

Thanks for all your help.

----- Rom
BOINC Development Team