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BOINC 7.7/7.8 Change Log

2022-08-20T20:08:08Z

Kiska:

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BOINC 7.7/7.8 Change Log

2022-08-20T20:07:19Z

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[[Change_Log_7.8.2_-_7.8.3_(October_4,_2017)]]
[[Change_Log_7.8.4_-_7.8.5_(January_12,_2018)]]

Change Log 7.8.4 - 7.8.5 (January 12, 2018)

2022-08-20T20:07:02Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.8.4 -> 7.8.5 * Mac screensaver: under OS 10.13+ if the BOINC screensaver cannot display a graphics app with hardware acceleration using the IOSurfac..."

;Preliminary Change Log 7.8.4 -> 7.8.5

* Mac screensaver: under OS 10.13+ if the BOINC screensaver cannot display a graphics app with hardware acceleration using the IOSurface APIs because the app has not been linked with the current graphics libraries, then display it using the much slower CGWindowListCreateImage API.

Change Log 7.8.2 - 7.8.3 (October 4, 2017)

2022-08-20T20:05:56Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.8.2 -> 7.8.3 * client: extensions, fixes to account manager functionality * client: eliminate possible buffer overflow in reporting result errors *..."

;Preliminary Change Log 7.8.2 -> 7.8.3

* client: extensions, fixes to account manager functionality
* client: eliminate possible buffer overflow in reporting result errors
* lib: fix boinc_file_exists() on Windows
* Mac: Changes to Xcode project to support screensaver changes for Mac OS 10.13.
* Screensaver: Changes for screensaver to support Mac OS 10.13
* api: BOINC graphics library changes to support Mac OS 10.13
* client library: inconsistent terminology for intel_gpu
* update project list
* Locale: Update french localization files
* update installshield files

Change Log 7.8.1 - 7.8.2 (August 29, 2017)

2022-08-20T20:04:52Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.8.1 -> 7.8.2 * client: more startup messages, hopefully find source of delay * update translations"

;Preliminary Change Log 7.8.1 -> 7.8.2

* client: more startup messages, hopefully find source of delay
* update translations

Change Log 7.8.0 - 7.8.1 (August 10, 2017)

2022-08-20T20:03:41Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.8.0 -> 7.8.1 * MGR: don't crash if GUI RPC returns empty reply * MGR: Remove CheckForVersionUpdate() call from CNetworkConnection::Poll(). It caused..."

;Preliminary Change Log 7.8.0 -> 7.8.1

* MGR: don't crash if GUI RPC returns empty reply
* MGR: Remove CheckForVersionUpdate() call from CNetworkConnection::Poll(). It caused Manager to crash on startup of Windows 10
* MGR: Mac: code optimization
* MGR: Mac: change "you are not authorized to manage the client" in alert to "... to manage BOINC" or "... to manage World Community Grid", "... to manage GridRepublic", etc.
* Mac uninstaller: better optimization and error checking
* Mac installer: ensure that temporary directories created by Mac installer and uninstaller have unique names
* Mac uninstaller: fix incompatibility with OS 10.6
* Mac uninstaller: fix small cosmetic issue
* Mac installer: Prevent displaying "OSAScript" in menu bar on newer versions of OS X
* Mac installer: improve logging of diagnostic information
* Mac installer: create temporary files in a directory unique to the user running the installer or uninstaller, to avoid permission problems if it was recently run from a different user. Don't try to automatically launch the BOINC Manager if it is being installed from a user who is not authorized to run the Manager.
* Mac installer: create temporary files in a directory unique to the user running the installer or uninstaller, to avoid permission problems if it was recently run from a different user.
* lib: Mac: add missing dlclose()
* MGR: Mac: Fix formatting of alert
* lib: Mac: Fix bug which crashed PostInstall app causing installer failures when authorizing non-admin users to run Manager
* update installshield files

Change Log 7.7.2 - 7.8.0 (August 10, 2017)

2022-08-20T20:00:56Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.7.2 -> 7.8.0 * MGR: don't crash if GUI RPC returns empty reply * MGR: Remove CheckForVersionUpdate() call from CNetworkConnection::Poll(). It caused..."

;Preliminary Change Log 7.7.2 -> 7.8.0

* MGR: don't crash if GUI RPC returns empty reply
* MGR: Remove CheckForVersionUpdate() call from CNetworkConnection::Poll(). It caused Manager to crash on startup of Windows 10
* MGR: Mac: code optimization
* MGR: Mac: change "you are not authorized to manage the client" in alert to "... to manage BOINC" or "... to manage World Community Grid", "... to manage GridRepublic", etc.
* Mac uninstaller: better optimization and error checking
* Mac installer: ensure that temporary directories created by Mac installer and uninstaller have unique names
* Mac uninstaller: fix incompatibility with OS 10.6
* Mac uninstaller: fix small cosmetic issue
* Mac installer: Prevent displaying "OSAScript" in menu bar on newer versions of OS X
* Mac installer: improve logging of diagnostic information
* Mac installer: create temporary files in a directory unique to the user running the installer or uninstaller, to avoid permission problems if it was recently run from a different user. Don't try to automatically launch the BOINC Manager if it is being installed from a user who is not authorized to run the Manager.
* Mac installer: create temporary files in a directory unique to the user running the installer or uninstaller, to avoid permission problems if it was recently run from a different user.
* lib: Mac: add missing dlclose()
* MGR: Mac: Fix formatting of alert
* lib: Mac: Fix bug which crashed PostInstall app causing installer failures when authorizing non-admin users to run Manager
* client: do AM RPC before detaching detach-when-done projects
* client: bug fix in acct mgr logic
* client: account-manager-related changes
* Mac: update build instructions to show they apply to version 7.7.3 and later
* server: fix compile error
* client: fix minor bug
* Mac client: avoid a potential compile error if deprecated enum kCGLRPVideoMemory is removed from a future SDK
* Mac: update build instructions
* Mac installer: add better error reporting
* Mac installer: fix bugs introduced in my commits bbc1c40 when replacing deprecated system() calls with posix_spawnp() calls
* client: show alt platforms in event log at startup. Fixes #1920.
* client: fix typo
* client/lib: add GUI RPCs for reading and writing app_config.xml files.
* client/lib: code shuffle preparatory to adding app_config GUI RPC
* client: Remove unused variables
* MGR: Remove unused variables
* client: small code shuffle; no behavior change
* client: don't crash if can't open gui_rpc_auth.cfg
* Build Linux: enable dependency debug build
* MGR: Fixed spelling in 'Update Version Check'
* client: show max disk usage correctly
* MGR: Implement feature 'Do not show this message again' in 'Shut Down Connected Client' dialog.
* client: don't start var names with __
* client: propogate correct error if fail to read stderr file
* MGR: Fix notices display under Mac OS 10.12.4
* Manager: fix uninitialized class members in constructor
* MGR: Fix change (commit 91784e9: replace deprecated Mac API ) lost by merge 3a956aa
* client: Fix show message cycle
* MGR: Remove unused function call.
* client: change "njobs_fail" back to "njobs_error"
* client: parse njobs_error in state file (don't lose info on transition)

Change Log 7.6.33 - 7.7.2 (March 29, 2017)

2022-08-20T19:58:45Z

Kiska: Created page with ";Preliminary Change Log 7.6.33 -> 7.7.2 * client: parse njobs_error in state file (don't lose info on transition) * client: send acct keys to acct manager only for projects a..."

;Preliminary Change Log 7.6.33 -> 7.7.2

* client: parse njobs_error in state file (don't lose info on transition)
* client: send acct keys to acct manager only for projects attached via acct mgr.
* Mac: modify Xcode project and build script setupForBOINC.sh for new approach to compatibility between production builds and Travis CI builds. The paths to the correct dependent library are now specified entirely in the Header Search Paths and Library SearchPaths for each target instead of the LD Flags, and we no * longer use symbolic links in a mac3rdParty directory.
* Mac: Remove references to the obsolete targets MakeAppIcon_h and WaitPermissions from build script.
* Mac: fix compile error from Xcode 8. All APIs deprecated as of OS 10.12 are now replaced, except for the following: [1] MGR: MacAccessibility.mm. Updating the accessibility support will require a complete rewrite to use Apple's new NSAccessibility APIs, which are not available on systems prior to OS 10.10, while retaining the current code for use with older versions of OS X. [2] API: Apple has deprecated many OpenGL / GLUT APIs as of OS 10.12. This affects these files in libboinc_graphics2.a: graphics2_unix.cpp, gutil_text.cpp and gutil.cpp. Apple recommends their proprietary APIs to replace OpenGL / GLUT. [3] All: Apple has deprecated libstdc++ and recommends switching to libc++ with a minimum deployment target of OS X 10.9, but that would eliminate support for OS 10.6 through OS 10.8.
* lib: Mac: fix compile error from Xcode 8.
* SCR: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.12.
* MGR: Mac: finish replacing all Mac APIs deprecated in OS 10.12, except in MacAccessibility.mm as explained in commit 75179d8, but replace one API in MacAccessibility.mm that was deprecated in OS 10.6.
* client: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.12
* client: fix estimate of job RAM usage
* lient: add report_results_immediately config on project and app levels
* SCR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* client: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* Mac: add new header file needed for replacing system() calls with posix_spawn() calls.
* Mac: Fix build break on Mac caused by commit 5df6f25. HAVE_CONFIG_H is not defined in Mac builds of most BOINC modules.
* MGR: Mac: use a macro in Mac Manager precompiled header to substitute posix_spawn() calls for all system() calls, since system() is deprecated in Mac OS 10.10 and Apple says to use posix_spawn() instead.
* Mac: add new mac_spawn.cpp to project to facilitate replacing system() calls with posix_spawn() calls as instructed by Apple, since system() is deprecated in mac OS 10.10.
* SCR: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.9
* Mac: Remove targets from Xcode project for building obsolete applications MakeAppIcon_h and WaitPermissions. Note: See comments in make_app_icon_h.cpp and mac_icon.cpp for new instructions for adding icons to science applications.
* Mac: Replace all deprecated APIs (as of OS 10.12) in AddRemoveUser command line utility
* lib: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.9
* SCR: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.9
* client: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.9
* MGR: Fix indentations
* MGR: Fix bug I introduced in commit 91784e9 earlier today.
* SCR: Mac: Fix bug I introduced in commit ab38f2f earlier today.
* Mac: add comments that mac_icon.cpp and MakeAppIcon_h utility are obsolete, describing new preferred method for adding icons to Mac science applications.
* Mac: Update Xcode project to support replacement of all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.8
* lib: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.8
* SCR: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.8
* MGR: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.8
* client: Mac: replace all deprecated Mac APIs as of OS 10.8
* lib: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* SCR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* MGR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* client: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* client: finish fix for AM prefs (BAM! used mixed http/https, needed to strip that off)
* client: finish last commit
* client: revert misguided attempt to persist acct mgr info
* client: ignore computing prefs from project if we're using prefs from acct mgr.
* Merge pull request #1768 from AenBleidd/ClientVersionCheck
* MGR: Version check. Fix linux build.
* MGR: Version check. Remove code duplicates.
* MGR: Version check. Add menu to Simple view.
* MGR: Version check. Added new menu option 'Help'->'Check for new version'. Fixed XML new version responce parse.
* client: Version check. Fix message about new version.
* client: Version check. Add force version check.
* MGR: Version check. Remove unuseful comment.
* MGR: Add dummy version check.
* Merge pull request #1770 from AenBleidd/FixManagerCompileWarnings
* client: fix compile warning
* server: add support for constant input files
* client: fix typo
* client: include # GPUs in <host_info> XML, including acct mgr requests
* client: add option to use SOCKS5 for DNS
* Merge pull request #1750 from AenBleidd/Issue1748
* MGR: Enable always 'Advance View' menu item in Simple mode. 'Advance view' item is enabled always even if Manager doesn't connected to client. As requested in issue 1748.
* client: code formatting
* client: when attaching to an AM, see if account file exists
* client: tweak account manager logic
* Merge pull request #1656 from AenBleidd/Issue1510
* Fix issue #1510: MGR: Ensure start page is in page stack when launching in auto-attach mode
* client: njobs_fail, not njobs_error
* client: account per-project CPU and GPU usage; report to account managers
* client: fix compile errors and warnings
* client: report project-level REC to account managers
* client: fix bug in benchmark CPU selection
* MGR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* SCR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* client: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* SCR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* MGR: Mac: continue replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* MGR: Mac: begin replacing deprecated Mac APIs
* Merge pull request #1711 from AenBleidd/Issue1519Fixed
* Fix issue #1519: MGR: Maximized window state is not restored on startup. Fix 'if' statement.
* Fix issue #1519: MGR: Maximized window state is not restored on startup
* client: consolidate comments in GPU code
* client: add ability to fake an OpenCL GPU Goal: improved support for OpenCL GPUs of random types (i.e. not Nvidia/AMD/Intel).
* Mac: fix typos in comments in build scripts ad build instructions
* Mac: Minor clean up of Xcode project from previous commit
* Mac: Update to build with openssl 1.1.0, c-ares 1.11.0 and curl 7.50.2.
* client: prioritize network (including GUI RPC) over async file ops
* client: fix bug that could cause idle CPUs/GPUs.
* VBOX: Update COM interface file to 5.1.2 version. It looks like something changed and now all 5.1.2 clients are failing with older vboxwrappers.
* VBOX: Make the screen shot feature optional. It is now turned on via a vbox_job.xml flag.
* client: win compile fix
* Merge pull request #1575 from marius311/boot_iso
* VBOX: added boot_iso option
* client: task properties tweak
* client: Win typo fix
* client: fix problems w/ tempfile generation for async file operations
* client: change temp file prefixes to 5 chars
* client: fix minor memory leak
* client: fix bug where concurrent async file operations use same temp file
* VBOX: Fix build break.
* VBOX: Attempt to wake the console before attempting to take a screenshot, to work around a VirtualBox bug.
* VBOX: Upgrade to the RTM build of the VirtualBox 5.1 COM interface file.
* VBOX: Fix check pointing code in the vboxmanage interface.
* VBOX: Only attempt to take a screen shot if VirtualBox is greater than 5.0 (VboxManage Interface)
* VBOX: Only attempt to take a screen shot if the VM is online.
* VBOX: Formatting changes to stderr log
* VBOX: Explicitly use GetSafeArrayPtr() on the CComSafeArray object instead of relying on a cast, it might be what is causing the screen shot corruption.
* VBOX: Treat ERR_INVALID_PARAM from create_vm() as an unrecoverable error.
* VBOX: Screen shots can only be taken while the VM is running and we hold the session lock. Make sure we take them before attempting to clean-up.
* VBOX: Bug fixes for previous commit.
* VBOX: Take a screen shot on failure and dump the base64 encoded image to stderr.
* VBOX: Dump Vbox logs when the heartbeat fails.
* VBOX: Code cleanup - streamline the hypervisor initialization code a bit.

Change Log 7.6.15 - 7.6.16 (November 21, 2015)

2016-07-06T06:47:15Z

Kiska: Adding raw data

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.15 -> 7.6.16'''

client: show "wrong URL - reattach" message as a notice.
client: remove CLIENT_STATE destructor; causes crash on Win. There's no reason to destruct anything; we're exiting.
client: add config option to not lower client priority.
• We added code a couple of months ago to lower client priority: on Win, this is SetPriorityClass(), which lowers I/O and memory priority as well as CPU.
This has the desired effect, i.e. to reduce the performance impact of BOINC when it's doing things like copying large files. However, it means that BOINC can take a long time to start at boot, which may be disconcerting to some users.
MRG: fix crashing bug.
• Don't do fprintf(stdout, msg). If msg contains %, this will crash. Instead do fprintf(stdout, "%s", msg).
client, Win: use SetThreadPriority() to lower client priority.
• We had used SetPriorityClass() for this purpose, but apparently this is too extreme, and causes the client to run very slowly; see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13631644/setthreadpriority-and-setpriorityclass
MGR: show zero time intervals as --- rather than 00:00:00.
MGR: tweaks in task properties.
LIB: Prevent the xml_unescape function from injecting control characters into strings.
Revert "lib: Prevent the xml_unescape function from injecting control characters into strings."
Lib: check return value of element_contents()
fixes CID 27713 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of parse_str()
fixes CID 27703 found by Coverity
Lib: ignore check_return defects
This is intended because parse_str() won't change physical_name if it fails.
fixes CID 27684,27719 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 27987 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 28017 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 27975,27996,28026 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructors
fixes CID 27962 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of scanf()
ignore the scanf() calls inside the loops to not loose performance (untested)
fixes CID 27691 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of fread() in crypt_prog
fixes CID 27709 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of scan_key_hex() in crypt_prog
fixes CID 27714 found by Coverity
Lib: prevent null dereference after fopen() in crypt_prog
fixes CID 27899 found by Coverity
Lib: check return values of file operations
errorcodes are introduced in 27594f0b
Fixes CID 27701, 27707 found by Coverity
Lib: introduce new error numbers and add missing descriptions
Lib: check return value of fcntl() in boinc_fopen()
There is no way to communicate what failed to the caller because they usually don't check the return value in the case of non-zero.
fixes CID 27690 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of select()
fixes CID 27700 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 27953 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructors
fixes CID 27960, 28023 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructors
fixes CID 27940,27947,27951 found by Coverity
Lib: prevent resource leak
If a notice with seqno == -1 is parsed the object was not deleted.
fixes CID 27845 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize buffer before usage
fixes CID 27956 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value
This does not break compatibility because the current caller CLIENT_STATE::write_state_file() is opening the file again for each retry if MFILE::close() fails.
fixes CID 34502 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize field in constructor
fixes CID 27976 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 27985 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize field in constructor
fixes CID 27945 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of getsockopt()
fixes CID 27722 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of fcntl()
fixes CID 27704 found by Coverity
Lib: check return value of getsockname()
fixes CID 27697 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize field in constructor
fixes CID 28032 found bv Coverity
Lib: prevent buffer overflow
fixes CID 27755 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 28000 found by Coverity
Lib: prevent dereference of null value
fixes CID 34508 found by Coverity
Lib: prevent resource leak
fixes CID 27906 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 27971, 28011 found by Coverity
Lib: initialize fields in constructor
fixes CID 28014 found by Coverity
MGR: prevent resource leak
fixes CID 38988 found by Coverity
MGR: make sure strings are null terminated
strncpy() doesn't null-terminate the destination string if the source string is not null terminated.
fixes CID 38958, 38959, 38960 found by Coverity

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:46:44Z

Kiska: Adding 7.6.16 version

[[Change Log 7.4.42 - 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.5.0 - 7.6.1 (May 26, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.1 - 7.6.2 (May 27, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.2 - 7.6.3 (June 23, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.3 - 7.6.5 (July 4, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.5 - 7.6.6 (July 15, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.6 - 7.6.7 (August 14, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.7 - 7.6.8 (August 25, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.8 - 7.6.9 (August 28, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.9 - 7.6.11 (September 18, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.11 - 7.6.12 (September 29. 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.12 - 7.6.14 (November 7, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.14 - 7.6.15 (November 9, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.15 - 7.6.16 (November 21, 2015)]]

Change Log 7.6.14 - 7.6.15 (November 9, 2015)

2016-07-06T06:45:47Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.14 -> 7.6.15''' MGR: use thousands-separator formatting in a couple of places. client: use "1 CPU", ".5 CPUs", "2 CPUs". client: change quit/abo..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.14 -> 7.6.15'''

MGR: use thousands-separator formatting in a couple of places.
client: use "1 CPU", ".5 CPUs", "2 CPUs".
client: change quit/abort timeouts from 15 to 60 sec. The last change handled only the client-exit case; need to handle all cases.
MGR: format elapsed time as XXd HH:MM:SS
client: work fetch backup-project tweak.
The logic for backup projects (fetch for a resource only if idle instance) was skipped in the case of GPU exceptions in my checkin of 10/10/2014.
Not sure why this was done, and it allows incorrect work fetch in some cases, so taking it out.
MGR: fix typo.
locale: Update compiled localization files.

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:45:33Z

Kiska:

Change Log 7.6.12 - 7.6.14 (November 7, 2015)

2016-07-06T06:44:03Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.12 -> 7.6.13''' client: GPU name tweak. client: updated AMD GPU names, from Jord. client: add separate config item for process priority of GPU/N..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.12 -> 7.6.13'''

client: GPU name tweak.
client: updated AMD GPU names, from Jord.
client: add separate config item for process priority of GPU/NCI/wrapper jobs.
client: fix typo.
client: fix set_client_priority()
client, Win: load SetPriorityClass() dynamically so we don't fail on XP. Also message tweak.
client: code cleanup of priority stuff; change numbering so 0 is low.
Fix issue #1128.
client (Linux): use ionice to lower I/O priority of client and apps.
client, Win: run in background mode. This should lower the network, disk, and memory priority of tasks and the client itself.
MGR: Fix an error introduced by commit 72fa383 which caused wxWidgets asserts.
Manager: msg tweak.
client: improve FLOPS estimate for NVIDIA GPUs detected only by OpenCL.
If an NVIDIA GPU is detected only by OpenCL we don't know how many cores per proc it has. Instead of assuming 8 (compute capability 1) assume 48 (CC 2). We could assume 192 (CC 3) but better to err on the low side.
MGR: In Event Log, work around a wxWidgets 3.0 bug in wxGenericListCtrl (Linux only) which causes headers to be misaligned after horizontal scrolling.
Remove "cy" locale, not available anymore.
MGR: simplify my fix of bug which made it difficult to select items when certain columns are hidden.
MGR: fix a bug which made it difficult to select items when certain key fields are hidden (selection would always jump to item in top row).
MGR: Fix Coverity CID 117641.
MGR: Fix Coverity CID 39031.
MGR: Fix Coverity CIDs 117639 , 117640.
MGR: Fix Select Columns dialog so it preserves column order.
client (Unix): dlclose() dynamic libraries in GPU code.
MGR: Fix old bug pointed out by Coverity. Fixes CID(s): 38967, 38976.
client, condor, remote submit: fix a few Coverity warnings.
client: tweak to remove Coverity warning.
client: print network suspend reasons as strings.
MGR: Fix an error introduced by commit 72fa383 which caused wxWidgets asserts.
CE: Remove obsolete project files.
GR: Remove obsolete project files.
PTP: Remove obsolete project files.
WCG: Remove obsolete project files.
WCG: Add updated project files.
client: Fix build break on Windows.
WCG: Update project files so they branch to WCG specific code and resources.
MGR: Fix bugs in commits 289005d and e1eb20f (set check mark on Snooze GPU menu item and disable it when CPU is snoozed.) The earlier commits also set the check mark when CPU was set to Suspend indefinitely. This new commit also disables the Snooze GPU menu item in some additional cases when appropriate.
client: increase app-exit timeout from 15 to 60.
• This is the interval between when the client sends a "quit" message to when it kills the app via TerminateProcess or SIGKILL.

Apparently VM apps that do their own state-saving (i.e. that don't use snapshot-based checkpointing) can take more than 15 seconds to do so.
Hopefully 60 is enough.

Rom suggested making this interval shorter in the case where the OS is shutting down. I don't think this is necessary since the OS kill everything anyway after some period (5 sec in the case of Win 10).
client: if app uses > 1 GPU, show them all in resource string.

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.13 -> 7.6.14'''

locale: Update compiled localization files.

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:43:37Z

Kiska:

Change Log 7.6.11 - 7.6.12 (September 29. 2015)

2016-07-06T06:42:40Z

Kiska: Adding raw data

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.11 -> 7.6.12'''

client: on initial RPC to a project, don't request work if 0 resource share.
client: don't request work on initial RPC if "no new work" set.
client: don't show "not using proxy" message.
Otherwise this gets shown each time user changes any "Other options" item.
client: check for new client version right after state file parse.
client: VirtualBox now installs VboxManage to /usr/local/bin. Make detection of VirtualBox work again.
MGR/client, Win: use LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT instead of NULL in locale call.
MGR: use Wx interfaces for getting number formatting chars.
client/MGR: code shuffle to generalize comma_print()
MGR: make localized number formating work on Windows.
MGR: show total credit as integer.
MGR: fix comma-separated display of >32 bit numbers VS apparently requires "long long" to get 64 bits.
• Also: convert various floats to double in the Manager. BOINC shouldn't use floats anywhere. Always use doubles.
SCR: Tweak mac screensaver for slightly better reliability.
client: Fix an issue which can sometimes cause client to take a long time to connect, especially on OS 10.10 Yosemite.

Change Log 7.6.9 - 7.6.11 (September 18, 2015)

2016-07-06T06:42:08Z

Kiska: Adding 7.6.11

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.9 -> 7.6.10'''

client: clean out project dir on project reset.
• always delete the files that BOINC knows about
• if not anonymous platform, delete all files
• except never delete app_config.xml
MGR: always get current disk usage data from client; don't cache it.
• The idea of limiting the rate of GUI RPCs only applies to periodic RPCs like get_results, get_state etc.
The get_disk_usage() RPC is used only when rendering the disk usage tab or showing project properties. In both cases we want to show the current info.
MGR: When a volunteer manually inputs an Account Manager URL, do not overwrite it with what was previously selected.
MGR: format time intervals as Dd HH:MM:SS. Combine redundant TimeFormat() functions.
MGR and client: print numbers with thousands separators in various places.
MGR and client: have comma_print() return a std::string, avoid static buffer problem.
MGR: Better test for whether client is running. Fixes bug which caused Manager to launch multiple clients when is set.
client: fix problem where app processes inherit open files from async copies.
• Github issue #1388 describes a situation where a wrapper can't exec an executable file because there's an open file descriptor to it.
This happens only if the file is > 10 MB so that async copy is used.

The reason for this (which Rom identified) is as follows: suppose several such tasks start around the same time. The first async copy finishes and the wrapper is started by fork/exec. The process inherits open fds for all the other copies. When they finish and are started, they won't be able to exec.

The fix is to use boinc_fopen() instead of fopen() in ASYNC_COPY.
The former sets its fd to close-on-exec.

In general the client should always use boinc_fopen() instead of fopen(); in addition to close-on-exec, it also does retry. David changed a couple of other fopen()s also.

Mac scr: revert to using Objective-C Garbage Collection instead of Automatic Reference Counting, for compatibility with OS 10.6 and OS 10.7, which require GC in screensavers. It is still compatible with OS 10.8 through OS 10.11. This requires building with Xcode 5 or earlier, because Xcode 6 forces converting to ARC.

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.10 -> 7.6.11'''

client: fix a bug introduced in commit [44c82be] which prevented the re-use of empty slots.
This bug affects only Mac / Linux / UNIX builds. It does not affect Windows.

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:41:36Z

Kiska:

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BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:38:50Z

Kiska:

[[Change Log 7.4.42 - 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.5.0 - 7.6.1 (May 26, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.1 - 7.6.2 (May 27, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.2 - 7.6.3 (June 23, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.3 - 7.6.5 (July 4, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.5 - 7.6.6 (July 15, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.6 - 7.6.7 (August 14, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.7 - 7.6.8 (August 25, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.8 - 7.6.9 (August 28, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.6.9 - 7.6.11 (September 18, 2015]]

[[Change Log 7.6.11 - 7.6.12 (September 29. 2015]]

Change Log 7.6.9 - 7.6.11 (September 18, 2015)

2016-07-06T06:36:16Z

Kiska: Adding raw data

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-07-06T06:35:24Z

Kiska: Adding 7.6.10 change log entry

Talk:Things still to do

2016-06-27T15:11:06Z

Kiska: /* Currently in exam prep, so won't be able to edit anything or write for the next week or two */

Discussion page now working fine.
[[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:02, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

== What is the oldest version we keep in the FAQs? BOINC 6, BOINC 7? ==

I looked over the top 2000 hosts at E@H and the number running BOINC6 was exactly 20 (1%), with over 50% running specifically 7.6.22.

Over time some FAQs will be obsolete (for many reasons), so perhaps there needs to be a place for FAQs to retire gracefully.
[[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

I have looked at the list of recently connected clients on SETI@home, with over a quarter still using version 6 or below. [[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 10:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

== What do we do with projects? Do we add them in, leave them out? ==

We could add a place holder for each project. If the Project admins and owners have their own place, then the only question is "Where is the Project's FAQ?". They might have good reason for not wanting to publish here, duplicating work etc, but i could see some small projects finding somewhere easy to publish. [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 01:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

== CreditNew, what to do with it. ==

I'll write some to most of the CreditNew system/implementation. I expect this page to be completed in 4 weeks, complications might appear. :)
--[[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 04:00, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

== Project GPU requirements ==

[http://boinc.mundayweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Project_GPU_requirements Project GPU Requirements] has a large table of changing data that needs to be manually maintained, maybe we should direct the user to go to the project site for details. If we're keeping the table we'll have to come back to it, it's pretty big. [[User:Bowtieguru|Bowtieguru]] ([[User talk:Bowtieguru|talk]]) 19:44, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

== Orange message bar? ==

Am I the only person where the orange message bar shows up? Or is that for everyone who has had a Talk item? 
I followed everything in the book to get rid of it, but it's still there. It would seem I am an unregistered user, else I'd have the normal message warning. So if you find me missing one day... ;-) [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]])

== Currently in exam prep, so won't be able to edit anything or write for the next week or two ==

As the title says I have exams upcoming so I won't be able to help as much as I would like to. [[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 23:29, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
:That's okay, we're not much in a hurry. And I suspect some people (besides me) will eventually also go on vacation, or have other things on their mind. I'm looking into what studies I can go do to increase my knowledge. So just take it easy, work on things when you can. :) [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]]) 16:42, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

I am finally back! Exams took 2 weeks longer than expected due to campus flooding. Still writing creditNew, but I'll take rewriting sections with more priority. Also can someone give me an update to the wiki, I have been out of touch for 3 weeks . :) [[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 15:11, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Things still to do

2016-06-02T23:29:55Z

Kiska: /* Currently in exam prep, so won't be able to edit anything or write for the next week or two */ new section

Change Log 7.6.8 - 7.6.9 (August 28, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:18:18Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.8 -> 7.6.9''' MGR: in Simple View Preferences dialog, highlight textedit field with illegal value by setting its background to light red. MGR: U..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.8 -> 7.6.9'''

MGR: in Simple View Preferences dialog, highlight textedit field with illegal value by setting its background to light red.
MGR: Update comment to match my previous change. (reverted from commit f64d956)
MGR: On Manager Exit, Manager shuts down client only if the Manager launched it (i.e. not if it was already running when Manager started.) However, "Shut down connected client" command does still shut down the client whether or not the Manager launched it. (reverted from commit 7e7f5c6)
MGR: Better test for whether client is running. Fixes bug which caused Manager to launch multiple clients when is set. (reverted from commit 3bd93fd)

Change Log 7.6.7 - 7.6.8 (August 25, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:17:53Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.7 -> 7.6.8''' client: if app reports fract done > 1, use asymptotic formula. client: change cpu_sched_debug log messages to show job's GPU type...."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.7 -> 7.6.8'''

client: if app reports fract done > 1, use asymptotic formula.
client: change cpu_sched_debug log messages to show job's GPU type. Also fix some compile warnings.
client: if a GPU exclusion refers to non-existent device num, ignore it.
client: if app reports frac done outside [0,1] write message conditioned on task_debug; write at most one msg per minute.
MGR: display total credit with thousands separators.
client: fix bug where elapsed time increased while suspended.
client and API: pass list of app version files in init_data.xml
MGR: Better test for whether client is running. Fixes bug which caused Manager to launch multiple clients when is set.
MGR: On Manager Exit, Manager shuts down client only if the Manager launched it (i.e. not if it was already running when Manager started.) However, "Shut down connected client" command does still shut down the client whether or not the Manager launched it.
client: don't use estimated fraction done until 1 minute has elapsed.
MGR: improve validity checking in advanced prefs dialog.

Change Log 7.6.6 - 7.6.7 (August 14, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:17:08Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.6 -> 7.6.7''' LIB: setbuf() only disables the CRT buffer and flush only works against the CRT buffers. • At some point MS introduced a Microso..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.6 -> 7.6.7'''

LIB: setbuf() only disables the CRT buffer and flush only works against the CRT buffers.
• At some point MS introduced a Microsoft Extension mode to fopen called 'commit mode'. This additional mode disables the OS buffers. So when on Windows force stderr redirection to use commit mode.
• See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yeby3zcb.aspx
LOCALE: Remove invalid language codes.
client: parse ARM CPU model.
Apparently the format of /proc/cpuinfo has changed on some ARM Linuxes, e.g. Raspbian Wheezy.
The CPU model is something like:
• model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
and the chars between "name" and ":" can be either spaces or a tab.
MGR: show last RPC time in project properties.
MGR: reorder items in simple view prefs.
MGR: Flag previously untranslatable strings as translatable.
LOCALE: Update BOINC-Manager.pot with missing strings.
MGR: Fix the string construction of the 'work fetch deferral' stuff to be more localization friendly.
MGR: Tighten up the code to the last commit a bit.
MGR: Make the average and total credit strings translatable and add comments for context.
MGR: show executable filename in task properties.
MGR: typo fix.
MGR: string tweaks.
client: fix job scheduling bug that starves CPU instances.
MGR: in prefs dialog, buffer size limits are 10, not 100.
MGR: in Advanced Preferences dialog highlight textedit field with illegal value by setting its background to red.
MGR: use lighter red for error fields.
client: Avoid kernel panics at system boot when running as a service.
Mac installer: Fix bug introduced in my commit 3e1428c which prevents installing on OS X older than OS 10.9 unless BOINC users and groups already exist (i.e., which causes a clean install to fail.)
client: if app reports fraction done outside 0..1, truncate.
LIB: add function for formatting numbers w/ digit grouping.
client: On Macs, fix failure to recognize CUDA devices when BOINC is launched automatically at login before CUDA has initialized at system boot.
Mac installer: attempt to prevent a rare installer crash when system is set for a language other than English.
Mac uninstaller: Fix a hang bug on some older versions of OS X (including 10.6.8.)

Change Log 7.6.5 - 7.6.6 (July 15, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:16:46Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.5 -> 7.6.6''' Mac installer: make my changes for OS 10.11 El Capitan compatibility work with branded versions of BOINC (GridRepublic, etc.) clie..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.5 -> 7.6.6'''

Mac installer: make my changes for OS 10.11 El Capitan compatibility work with branded versions of BOINC (GridRepublic, etc.)
client: fix bug in computing elapsed time when CPU throttling.
When CPU throttling was in effect, we were accumulating elapsed time at about half the correct rate.
MGR: Prevent crash on Windows with the menu disabling code. Revisit when more time is available.
client (Win): when read stderr.txt, wait for write lock to be release first.
Apparently, on Win, there is still a write lock on stderr.txt, and its buffer isn't flushed, until shortly after the app process exits. This is bizarre, but so be it.

Change Log 7.6.3 - 7.6.5 (July 4, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:16:04Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.3 -> 7.6.4''' client: print descendant PIDs on exit or abort code. client: always show task_debug message if kill_program() fails ... but change..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.3 -> 7.6.4'''

client: print descendant PIDs on exit or abort code.
client: always show task_debug message if kill_program() fails
... but change kill_program() so it's not a failure if the process doesn't exit. This is to help debug a possible "zombie process" bug
Mac installer: changes for compatibility with OS 10.11 El Capitan.
'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.4 -> 7.6.5'''

Mac installer: improved changes for compatibility with OS 10.11 El Capitan.

Change Log 7.6.2 - 7.6.3 (June 23, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:15:41Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.2 -> 7.6.3''' MGR: When an account manager is selected, populate the account manager name field if it is available. MGR: menu tweak. MGR: show t..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.2 -> 7.6.3'''

MGR: When an account manager is selected, populate the account manager name field if it is available.
MGR: menu tweak.
MGR: show total credit as integer. Code cleanup.
Mac installer: Add change Charlie inadvertently omitted from his commit 6a85e37: Require OS 10.6 or later for BOINC 7.5.
MGR: Fix Mac-only bug since BOINC 7.3.0 which prevented showing exit confirmation dialog when selecting quit from menubar icon menu (task bar menu.) This bug was introduced when task bar icon handling was changed for wxWidgets 3.0.
LOCALE: Update with latest menu changes.
MGR: string tweak. Translatable strings shouldn't have spaces at the end. This is one case - should fix all of them.
MGR: string tweak.
LOCALE: Update template based on latest change.
client: fix bug when app version uses > 1 GPU instance.

Note: the code wasn't written with multi-GPU apps in mind. There may be other bugs with multi-GPU apps.
client: add slot_debug log msg for file setup.
WINBUILD: Update Progress Thru Processors installer for 7.6 (Using stock client software instead of fully customized software).
client: fix error in checking unlink() return value.
client: fix bug where project boolean attributes are stuck at true.
• Projects had some boolean attributes (verify_files_on_app_start, ended, non_cpu_intensive) that are send in scheduler replies and thereafter stored in the client state file. If a project stopped sending one of these attributes, it would never get cleared.
• Solution: treat the absence of the flag in the scheduler reply as meaning false.
client: fix bug that caused delay in job cleanup.
• If a job has an output file with and , and it doesn't create the file, then the call to boinc_rename() (to move it to the project dir) fails, and we back off and retry.
• Solution: in boinc_rename(), if the rename fails, check if the file exists, and if it doesn't then don't retry.
• Also:
- when writing client messages, use the actual current time (dtime()) rather than client_state.now.
- write log msgs when output file renames fail.
WINBUILD: Update the custom action table for the Progress Thru Processors installer.
client: allow initial scheduler request to request N instances.
• David made a change on 27 Feb 2009 that set the initial request to 0 instances. He's not sure what the rationale was - the checkin note didn't say.
client, GUI RPC: maintain and report progress rate.
• "Progress rate" is that average increase in fraction done per second of elapsed time.
• Also remove unnecessary destructors in GUI RPC code.
LOCALE: Update compiled localization files.

Change Log 7.6.1 - 7.6.2 (May 27, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:15:03Z

Kiska: Created page with "'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.1 -> 7.6.2''' WINBUILD: Fix code signing settings. MGR: Remove wxWidgets 2.8 language code conversion functionality. We have been using wxWidget..."

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.6.1 -> 7.6.2'''

WINBUILD: Fix code signing settings.
MGR: Remove wxWidgets 2.8 language code conversion functionality. We have been using wxWidgets 3.x for over two years now.
Revert "WINBUILD: Update CRT reference to VS 2013."

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-05-28T05:14:29Z

Kiska: Added more versions

Change Log 7.5.0 - 7.6.1 (May 26, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:09:03Z

Kiska: Formatting will be fixed as soon as I copy every change log

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.5.0 -> 7.6.1'''

MGR: menu item shuffle.
• Advanced view: move Event Log to Tools.
• Simple view: add Tools menu, and put Event Log and Add Project there.
MGR: Don't allow user to enter start time = end time for time-of-day or day-of-week preferences.
LIB: Ignore time-of-day or day-of-week settings (i.e., don't set "present" flag) if start time = end time.
Mac: Correction to build instructions for trunk (BOINC 7.5.0 and later): wxWidgets can be built under Xcode 6 by using our provided build script.
Mac installer: add comment on problem with BOINC+VBox installer.
MGR: Fix a crash bug if connection to client is lost in Simple View.
MGR: If not connected to client, disable menu items which require a connection.
MGR: If not connected to client, disable snooze menu items in task bar icon menu.
MGR: Don't show Advanced or Simple Preferences dialogs if RPCs fail. This fixes an unlikely case where the client connection has just been lost but the menus have not yet been disabled.
Mac: update build scripts and instructions for trunk.
Mac: add a hint about entering file pr folder paths in the Terminal application.
Mac: tweaks to build instructions for trunk.
MGR: Add 6 new tags to allow the backgrounds of the Simple View and Simple Preferences dialog to be anchored at any of 9 points, for flexibility in placement of the logo or other graphic element that should always be visible.
• Vertical anchor is one of: , or .
• Horizontal anchor is one of: , , .
If none of the tags are present, these default values are used:
• The defaults for the main Simple View background are and .
• The defaults for the Simple View Preferences dialog background are and .
client: bug fixes to sorting projects alphabetically.

There were two problems:
1) we were sorting before parsing the client state file (which is where we get project names from).
2) the Win implementation of strcasecmp() wasn't right; it returned difference but not order.
Project list changes.
client: include client brand (if any) in HTTP user agent string.
client: fix bugs in accounting of elapsed time_stats_log, e.g. if you set, and you suspend CPU, NCI tasks continue to run but their elapsed time wouldn't increase.
client: Win 10 OS identification additions, from Robert Kreß.
client: Fix formatting issues.
client: guard against divide by zero.
LIB: revert incorrect modification from commit 0773510
client: set minimum cpu_usage_limit to a value which Advanced Prefs dialog will report as (i.e., truncate to) 0.
Mac: update build instructions, incorporating feedback from testers.
Mac: tweaks to build instructions.
client: More Windows SKU updates from Robert Kreß.
client: Win build fix.
MGR: Remove welcome page from wizard and split the attach wizard into two menu items.
MGR: Remove WelcomePage.cpp from build system. (From: Benji Wiebe)
Fixed error message in boinccmd.
MGR: Bug fixes for previous wizard changes.
MGR: Remove non-UTF8 character that was causing problems for the string extraction tool.
MGR: Remove files WelcomePage.cpp, WelcomePage.h from Xcode project.
MGR: Fix some crash bugs in the code to hide or rearrange columns which can occur when changing locale to a different language.
CURL: Update root authority CAs.
MGR: Remove comment blocks that were being included in the translation template.
MGR: Prevent the 'back' button from being enabled on the project and account manager info pages.
MGR: Fix a bug in setting column order which Charlie introduced in his previous 2 commits.
client: add log msgs for failed file deletion.
client: detect errors in directory enumeration.
Previously, the dir_scan() function didn't distinguish between
• reaching the end of the directory.
• errors.
It just returned nonzero in either case. This means that the function that cleans out a slot dir (client_clean_out_dir()) could potentially return success even though the directory is nonempty. This could potentially cause the recently-reported problem where a slot dir contains a VM image from a previous job.
client: finish previous commit.
client: fix botched commit from just now.
MGR: Fix compiler warning which was introduced by a previous commit.
WINBUILD: Add Visual Studio 2013 project files.
WINBUILD: Update dependency paths for VS 2013 projects to point towards 2013 dependencies.
WINBUILD: Cleanup work to support VS 2013 builds
client: fix bug when delete > 4GB file.
The function to delete a slot dir file (delete_project_owned_file()) called boinc_file_or_symlink_exists(), and returning success (with no message) if this return false.
boinc_file_or_symlink_exists() incorrectly returned false for > 4GB file on Win, because it used stat(), which handles only 32 bit file size.

Fix: remove the call to boinc_file_or_symlink_exists(); instead, always call DeleteFile(), and check for the ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND status. David will fix the stat() problem later.
client, Win: use _stat64() instead of _stat(); _stat() returns error for > 4GB files.
WINBUILD: Remove the restriction that prevented BOINC from installing on domain controllers.
TODO: Block service install in the advanced settings dialog.
client: get sizes of anonymous platform files on startup... because if we don't, the client won't use asynch operations for large files, which causes heartbeat failures and unresponsiveness.
WINBUILD: For projects that depend on a library, make sure that they point to the VS 2013 project. (From: Christian Beer)
WINBUILD: Fix building debug builds for vboxwrapper on VS 2013.
WINBUILD: When building with VS 2013, use the XP compatible toolchain.
WINBUILD: Last commit missed a file.
WINBUILD: Oops, wrong change with the last commit.
WINBUILD: Remove code-signing requirement for building BOINC installers on Windows.
WINBUILD: Update CRT reference to VS 2013.

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-05-28T05:04:21Z

Kiska:

[[Change Log 7.4.42 - 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)]]

[[Change Log 7.5.0 - 7.6.1 (May 26, 2015)]]

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-05-28T05:04:00Z

Kiska:

[[Change Log 7.4.42 - 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)]]
[[Change Log 7.5.0 - 7.6.1 (May 26, 2015)]]

Change Log 7.4.42 - 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)

2016-05-28T05:01:44Z

Kiska:

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.4.42 -> 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)'''

*MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci>
*MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci> (reverted from previous commit)
*MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci>
*MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci> (reverted from previous commit)
*MGR: Work around an apparent bug in wxWidgets 3.0 on Linux which drew blank lines at the top and failed to draw the bottom items. This could happen if the list was scrolled near the bottom and the user selected "Show active tasks."
*MGR: work around a Linux bug in wxWidgets which prevents bringing the main window forward on top of Event Log (or any modeless dialog.)
*On all platforms, preserve Z-order of main window and Event Log when hiding / showing or deactivating / activating Manager.
*MGR: fix a bug in my last commit in Linux when a modal dialog is open which prevented bringing bringing the modal dialog with the main window forward on top of Event Log. (Linux allows the Event Log to be brought forward and made active even if we have a modal dialog displayed (associated with our main frame.)
*client: Change Windows 10's kernel detection version to 10.0 instead of 6.4.
*client: Check for the correct SKU as well.
*client: fix incorrect parsing of <max_ncpus_pct> (0 means no limit).
*MGR: begin updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification.
*LIB: add enabled_defaults() function to GLOBAL_PREFS (for GUI).
*client: run coprocessor tasks at higher priority even if they use >= 1 CPU.
*LIB: tweak values in GLOBAL_PREFS::enabled_defaults() function to better match new web prefs.
*MGR: tweak some strings in new Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: tweak more strings in new Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: tweak more strings, change wxStaticBox headings to bold italic on Windows and Linux.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: split each day-of-week time span text field into separate starting and ending time text fields; rearrange source code to match new order of items on dialog; add missing validators; fix bugs; begin expanding tooltips to cover static text and checkboxes in addition to text edit fields.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: make tooltips the same as new web prefs, try to apply each tooltip to all parts of its referenced item (checkbox, static text, textedit field, etc.) but tooltips are not yet working reliably.
*MGR: finished updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: apply each tooltip to all parts of its referenced item (checkbox, static text, textedit field, etc.); fix bug saving Day-of_week overrides.
*MGR: minor tweak to new Advanced Preferences dialog: put "leave apps in memory" checkbox above page/swap file size to match the order in the web prefs.
*MGR: minor tweak to new Advanced Preferences dialog: remove redundant code.
*MGR: prefs dialog string tweaks.
*MGR: in Advanced Preferences dialog, clear idle timeout text input field when disabled because both "Suspend when idle" checkboxes are off, set it to default value when re-enabled by setting either checkbox on.
*MGR: change layout of most items in Advanced Preferences dialog so all rows are left justified with no gaps within a row instead of arranging items in grids. (The Day-of-Week overrides are still arranged in grids.)
*MGR: Add new clock icon to Daily Schedules tab in Advanced Preferences dialog,
*MGR: Fix bugs specific to MS Windows in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: Fix compiler warning.
*MGR: Updated a few copyright dates to 2015.
*MGR: bug fixes in Advanced Preferences dialog: ensure we clear all disabled textedit fields when initializing dialog.
*MGR: fix typo, change layout in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: Remove, now bogus, menu item.
*MGR: minor code cleanup in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: tweaks to Advanced Preferences dialog: don't display decimal point and digits after decimal point if 0; set initial values for Day-of-week overrides when checkboxes are firs set; adjustments to a few strings; minor code cleanup.
*MGR: avoid unnecessary event handling in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: string tweak.
*MGR: In Advanced Preferences dialog, fix initial values set for network usage limit and time of day and day-of-week suspensions; more code cleanup.
*client: if get 417 HTTP status, switch to HTTP 1.0
• 417 (Expectation Failed) probably means we're talking to a 1.0 proxy.
*MGR: In Advanced Preferences dialog, fix '&' in "Disk & Memory" tab label.
*SCR: Fix build break introduced by commit cb0d59b.
*SCR: Update to allow building with Xcode 6.1.1 (using Automatic Reference Counting) as well as Xcode 5.0.2.
• Because Xcode 6.1.1 requires ARC, it builds only the 64-bit screensaver, so the screensaver can't run on OS 10.5.
• Xcode 5.0.2 builds the screensaver without ARC, and builds a combined 32-bit and 64-bit "universal" binary which runs on OS 10.5 through the latest OS X (OS 10.10.)
*SCR: Improve validity testing of settings on Mac Screensaver control panel.
*SCR: Remove unused code from Mac Screensaver.
*Mac: update Xcode project for building BOINC 7.5 under Xcode 6.1.1.
• Rom: do not port this commit to the 7.4 branch; the screensaver this builds won't run on OS 10.5.
*Mac installer: Require OS 10.6 or later for BOINC 7.5.
• Rom: do not port this commit to the 7.4 branch.
*SCR: Fix a bug which prevented default screensaver (clientscr) from running when BOINC client was suspended.
*client: startup message tweak: Running as a daemon (GPU computing disabled).
*client: correction to previous commit: running as a daemon disables GPU computation only on MS Windows.
*WINBUILD: Change where the installer looks for the MSVC runtime the BOINC binaries are linked against.
*MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci>.
*MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci>.
*client: show more config options at startup.
*MGR: show task running state correctly (fix last commits).
*MGR: shuffle menus.
*MGR: simple view menu tweaks.
*MGR: menu tweaks.
*MGR: Remove context-sensitive help button.
*MGR: Update about box with updated information.
*Don't use "&" in translatable string. WxWidgets requires "&&" for some reason, and this confuses translators.
*Mac: minor update to build instructions for trunk (BOINC 7.5.0 and later.)
*Mac: Corrections to build instructions for trunk (BOINC 7.5.0 and later.)
*MGR: Modify Simple Preferences dialog to match Advanced Preferences dialog and Web Preferences.
*MGR: Updates to Simple Preferences dialog: restore reference to Advanced Prefs dialog; fix controls to appear properly over a background image. The warning icon does not yet appear correctly over a background image.
*MGR: Fixes for correctly displaying controls over a background image in Simple Preferences; adjust size of warning symbol bitmap for dpi setting on Windows for Simple and Advanced Preferences.
*MGR: Fix appearance of Simple Preferences dialog items when tabbing through the items to change focus; adjust length of static line for DPI setting on Windows.
*MGR: Fix build breaks on Macintosh.
*MGR: When erasing controls in Simple Preferences dialog, align background image correctly for controls that are descendants of the dialog deeper than one level (grandchild, great-grandchild, etc.)
*MGR: Set default background of Simple Prefs dialog to white.
*MGR: Add a leading space between checkboxes and their labels in Simple Prefs dialog.
*MGR: Fix compiler warnings; fix Simple Prefs bitmap display on Linux.
*MGR: Fix CTransparentHyperlinkCtrl display on MS Windows which broke in the last checkin.

BOINC 7.5/7.6 Change Log

2016-05-27T00:22:30Z

Kiska: Formatting is not correct, will be fixed as soon as I am out of class ~~~~

'''Preliminary Change Log 7.4.42 -> 7.5.0 (April 5, 2015)'''

*MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci>
*MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci> (reverted from previous commit)
*MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci>
*MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci> (reverted from previous commit)
*MGR: Work around an apparent bug in wxWidgets 3.0 on Linux which drew blank lines at the top and failed to draw the bottom items. This could happen if the list was scrolled near the bottom and the user selected "Show active tasks."
*MGR: work around a Linux bug in wxWidgets which prevents bringing the main window forward on top of Event Log (or any modeless dialog.)
*On all platforms, preserve Z-order of main window and Event Log when hiding / showing or deactivating / activating Manager.
*MGR: fix a bug in my last commit in Linux when a modal dialog is open which prevented bringing bringing the modal dialog with the main window forward on top of Event Log. (Linux allows the Event Log to be brought forward and made active even if we have a modal dialog displayed (associated with our main frame.)
*client: Change Windows 10's kernel detection version to 10.0 instead of 6.4.
*client: Check for the correct SKU as well.
*client: fix incorrect parsing of <max_ncpus_pct> (0 means no limit).
*MGR: begin updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification.
*LIB: add enabled_defaults() function to GLOBAL_PREFS (for GUI).
*client: run coprocessor tasks at higher priority even if they use >= 1 CPU.
*LIB: tweak values in GLOBAL_PREFS::enabled_defaults() function to better match new web prefs.
*MGR: tweak some strings in new Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: tweak more strings in new Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: tweak more strings, change wxStaticBox headings to bold italic on Windows and Linux.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: split each day-of-week time span text field into separate starting and ending time text fields; rearrange source code to match new order of items on dialog; add missing validators; fix bugs; begin expanding tooltips to cover static text and checkboxes in addition to text edit fields.
*MGR: continue updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: make tooltips the same as new web prefs, try to apply each tooltip to all parts of its referenced item (checkbox, static text, textedit field, etc.) but tooltips are not yet working reliably.
*MGR: finished updating Advanced Preferences dialog to new specification: apply each tooltip to all parts of its referenced item (checkbox, static text, textedit field, etc.); fix bug saving Day-of_week overrides.
*MGR: minor tweak to new Advanced Preferences dialog: put "leave apps in memory" checkbox above page/swap file size to match the order in the web prefs.
*MGR: minor tweak to new Advanced Preferences dialog: remove redundant code.
*MGR: prefs dialog string tweaks.
*MGR: in Advanced Preferences dialog, clear idle timeout text input field when disabled because both "Suspend when idle" checkboxes are off, set it to default value when re-enabled by setting either checkbox on.
*MGR: change layout of most items in Advanced Preferences dialog so all rows are left justified with no gaps within a row instead of arranging items in grids. (The Day-of-Week overrides are still arranged in grids.)
*MGR: Add new clock icon to Daily Schedules tab in Advanced Preferences dialog,
*MGR: Fix bugs specific to MS Windows in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: Fix compiler warning.
*MGR: Updated a few copyright dates to 2015.
*MGR: bug fixes in Advanced Preferences dialog: ensure we clear all disabled textedit fields when initializing dialog.
*MGR: fix typo, change layout in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: Remove, now bogus, menu item.
*MGR: minor code cleanup in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: tweaks to Advanced Preferences dialog: don't display decimal point and digits after decimal point if 0; set initial values for Day-of-week overrides when checkboxes are firs set; adjustments to a few strings; minor code cleanup.
*MGR: avoid unnecessary event handling in Advanced Preferences dialog.
*MGR: string tweak.
*MGR: In Advanced Preferences dialog, fix initial values set for network usage limit and time of day and day-of-week suspensions; more code cleanup.
*client: if get 417 HTTP status, switch to HTTP 1.0
• 417 (Expectation Failed) probably means we're talking to a 1.0 proxy.
*MGR: In Advanced Preferences dialog, fix '&' in "Disk & Memory" tab label.
*SCR: Fix build break introduced by commit cb0d59b.
*SCR: Update to allow building with Xcode 6.1.1 (using Automatic Reference Counting) as well as Xcode 5.0.2.
• Because Xcode 6.1.1 requires ARC, it builds only the 64-bit screensaver, so the screensaver can't run on OS 10.5.
• Xcode 5.0.2 builds the screensaver without ARC, and builds a combined 32-bit and 64-bit "universal" binary which runs on OS 10.5 through the latest OS X (OS 10.10.)
*SCR: Improve validity testing of settings on Mac Screensaver control panel.
*SCR: Remove unused code from Mac Screensaver.
*Mac: update Xcode project for building BOINC 7.5 under Xcode 6.1.1.
• Rom: do not port this commit to the 7.4 branch; the screensaver this builds won't run on OS 10.5.
*Mac installer: Require OS 10.6 or later for BOINC 7.5.
• Rom: do not port this commit to the 7.4 branch.
*SCR: Fix a bug which prevented default screensaver (clientscr) from running when BOINC client was suspended.
client: startup message tweak: Running as a daemon (GPU computing disabled).
client: correction to previous commit: running as a daemon disables GPU computation only on MS Windows.
WINBUILD: Change where the installer looks for the MSVC runtime the BOINC binaries are linked against.
MGR: fix display bug with <dont_suspend_nci>.
MGR: fix simple view display bug when use <dont_suspend_nci>.
client: show more config options at startup.
MGR: show task running state correctly (fix last commits).
MGR: shuffle menus.
MGR: simple view menu tweaks.
MGR: menu tweaks.
MGR: Remove context-sensitive help button.
MGR: Update about box with updated information.
Don't use "&" in translatable string. WxWidgets requires "&&" for some reason, and this confuses translators.
Mac: minor update to build instructions for trunk (BOINC 7.5.0 and later.)
Mac: Corrections to build instructions for trunk (BOINC 7.5.0 and later.)
MGR: Modify Simple Preferences dialog to match Advanced Preferences dialog and Web Preferences.
MGR: Updates to Simple Preferences dialog: restore reference to Advanced Prefs dialog; fix controls to appear properly over a background image. The warning icon does not yet appear correctly over a background image.
MGR: Fixes for correctly displaying controls over a background image in Simple Preferences; adjust size of warning symbol bitmap for dpi setting on Windows for Simple and Advanced Preferences.
MGR: Fix appearance of Simple Preferences dialog items when tabbing through the items to change focus; adjust length of static line for DPI setting on Windows.
MGR: Fix build breaks on Macintosh.
MGR: When erasing controls in Simple Preferences dialog, align background image correctly for controls that are descendants of the dialog deeper than one level (grandchild, great-grandchild, etc.)
MGR: Set default background of Simple Prefs dialog to white.
MGR: Add a leading space between checkboxes and their labels in Simple Prefs dialog.
MGR: Fix compiler warnings; fix Simple Prefs bitmap display on Linux.
MGR: Fix CTransparentHyperlinkCtrl display on MS Windows which broke in the last checkin.

Things still to do

2016-05-25T01:53:55Z

Kiska:

Via this page we can add what there is still to do to get this Wiki the way we want it to. You can add to it, you can sign up to what you want. I propose we add a list of things here, and the person who wants to work on something, adds his name at the end of it. All right?

<strike>Copy all FAQ titles to their indexes - Jord</strike> - done
<strike>Copy all FAQs - Jord (I'm done) and vaxfan (I think I'm done)</strike> - done
Read all FAQs, mark which need rewrites .. hmm, but how? Vaxfan - ?possibly add a wiki entry listing the Wikis that need re-writes, and we can then cross them out and date them once done?
Okay, how does one do that? [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]])
Until then, I'm tracking my progress on my profile page if you're interested. [[User:Bowtieguru|Bowtieguru]] ([[User talk:Bowtieguru|talk]]) 20:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Rewrite/touch up/add formatting FAQs Vaxfan - If we are going to do this, do we need a "Style guide" to be worked to to minimise the re-rewrites of things that have already been done?
Yes, that would be preferable. Thursday I plan to sit down and go try out different styles, fonts and that, plus a table through which we point to the old FAQ and who wrote it. [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]])
For now, I'm going through and repairing the gross damage, tossing in breaks for readability and inserting links. The (many) lists-of-steps were trashed, unfortunately, they're now big balls of paragraph. I'm rebuilding them as ul's. No other formatting or headings, maybe some strongs here and there. [[User:Bowtieguru|Bowtieguru]] ([[User talk:Bowtieguru|talk]]) 20:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
It would help to have at least one FAQ finished as this would be a good example to define style and layout [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
I've finished up the misc-general section to give you an idea of what I'm doing [[User:Bowtieguru|Bowtieguru]] ([[User talk:Bowtieguru|talk]]) 01:46, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Add images for FAQs that need them
Or update images for FAQs that already have them
Proof read ready FAQs - Vaxfan - How do we flag that they've been proof-read?
I don't know, ideas? [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]])
If we have the list of rewrites as suggested above, we can note that in there. [[User:KSMarksPsych]]
May i suggest a comment on each associated Discussion Page to the effect that a page has been PR'd OK, and if not OK either an edit or comment be made. [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Add the full explanation of what CreditNew is, where it fails, what can be done to fix it - JasonG
I'll take writing this topic. However it will take time, as I am goign to compile the past generations of credit granting methods [[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 01:53, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
Add sections for Windows, Linux, Mac for different FAQs
FAQ titles start with a capital and end with anything but a full stop '.'
This is i know pedantic but FAQs are questions, so should always be written as such, and end with a ? [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Titles don't like braces { and } in them. These cannot be escaped as far as I found.
Someone has to trawl through all the FAQs at http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/ and copy the missing links per FAQ over. - Bowtieguru

Discussion points:
What is the oldest version we keep in the FAQs? BOINC 6, BOINC 7? Vaxfan - There are still a number of people that run BOINC 6, I'm not too sure about earlier ones, do we NEED to remove the 'old' info?
Can the Einstein moderators check all Einstein FAQs and see which ones are still viable, if any? - Kathryn
What do we do with projects? Do we add them in, leave them out? I feel to leave them out, as there are places enough that show which are available, active etc. Vaxfan - I agree in general, but maybe just a list of projects & links to them here?
<strike>I understand from Agentb that you cannot add to Discussions. I've sent that off to Neil, perhaps a permission problem. Although Users should be able to create Discussions. I dunno. I think I'll make a page on the main index for discussions for now, in which you can leave just about anything, all right? [[User:Jord|Jord]] ([[User talk:Jord|talk]]) Problem solved, Discussions now open for business [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:18, 22 May 2016 (UTC)</strike>

May i ask we use the wiki convention of 4 tilda's to sign each and every edit ? [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

I also like my white space a lot, it helps me breath [[User:Agentb|Agentb]] ([[User talk:Agentb|talk]]) 00:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

FAQ titles that have already been dumped, no need to copy these FAQs:
The whole section ''Other links to BOINC related pages''
BOINC Manager 6.10.76
BOINC Manager 6.7.76

Things still to do

2016-05-25T01:53:29Z

Kiska:

Talk:Things still to do

2016-05-22T10:16:41Z

Kiska: /* What is the oldest version we keep in the FAQs? BOINC 6, BOINC 7? */

Talk:BOINC 6: Advanced Local Preferences

2016-05-22T04:20:14Z

Kiska: /* Image sizes */ new section

== Image sizes ==

I have no idea why using the image sizing option is not resizing. [[User:Kiska|Kiska]] ([[User talk:Kiska|talk]]) 04:20, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

BOINC 6: Advanced Local Preferences

2016-05-22T04:19:12Z

Kiska:

Since BOINC 5.8.16 BOINC Manager has had the local preferences. First only in the form of the global_prefs_override.xml file that you had to edit by hand, since 5.10.14 also in the form of a menu in the BOINC Manager.

The preferences here will override any of the same preferences you set through the web site.
Do know that those preferences you set on the web site and are not in the local preferences are not overridden!

To get to them
Open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->(Computing) Preferences.

All changes you make to the local preferences are saved every time you press the OK button. They will be used immediately. If you just want to look in on them, but not use them, make sure you exit the preferences window with the Cancel button. Whenever you want to get rid of the local preferences and return to using the preferences from the web site, press the Clear button.

[[File:prefs_proc.png|link=|frame|50px|Processor Usage]]

While computer is on batteries, a setting for laptops. When this is selected BOINC will continue to work while the laptop runs on its internal battery.

While computer is in use, when this option is selected, BOINC will always run, even when you are working on the computer. Deselect this option if you want to use the idle run option.

Only after computer is idle for 3 minutes, will only work when you have the above option not selected. It will wait for the amount of time you set here, checking in that time if there is any keyboard and mouse activity. If there isn't and the computer is idle, BOINC will start up one of the science applications. As soon as you move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard, BOINC will suspend all applications doing calculations.

Every day between 00:00 and 00:00 (no restrictions if equal), provides a selection between what time and what time BOINC is allowed to run. For instance when you're not using the computer during the night, then you set the time between 22:00 and 08:00 .. it uses 24 hour settings (00:00 to 23:59) and will use the clock of the operating system.

Day-of-the-week override, as above but set for specific days in the week.
If you only want BOINC to run on Saturday, from 3am till 4pm, you select Saturday and set the time to 03:00-16:00. It can be selected for multiple days.

Switch between applications every 60 minutes, selects how many minutes should pass before BOINC switches between applications when attached to multiple projects. Default setting is 60 minutes.

On multiprocessors, use at most 100% of the processors, selects how many CPUs you want to use at any time. If you have a 4 core computer and want to use 3 of them, set this option to 75%.

Use at most 100% of CPU time, is the CPU Thermal Throttle System. It can be used to throttle the CPU or CPUs when your system is running very hot.

[[File:prefs_network.png|link=|100px|frame|Network usage]]

Maximum download rate KB/sec, with this setting you can tell throttle the maximum download speed that BOINC can use to download the science applications and tasks with. Of course this also depends on what speed the project's internet connection is running at.

Maximum upload rate KB/sec, with this setting you can tell throttle the maximum upload speed that BOINC can use to download the science applications and tasks with. Of course this also depends on what speed the project's internet connection is running at.

Connect about every x days, sets the frequency that BOINC contacts the project server to upload work, download new work and report work. It is not to be used as a method to queue up more work. For that you can use the Additional work buffer. Default at 1 day, if set to zero days it'll tell BOINC that you're on an always on connection.

Additional work buffer x days (max. 10), sets the amount of work that BOINC can ask buffer additionally per project. Default at 1 day, but can be set to zero as well. When set to zero, BOINC will ask for 1 second of work, translating into one task per project.

Skip image file verification, is used for UMTS connections and other ISPs that modify or compress image files. When checked BOINC won't check for the MD5 key on the image file.

Confirm before connecting to internet, when selected this pops up a confirmation window asking you if you want to connect to the internet. Primarily used with modem connections.

Disconnect when done, when selected will silently disconnect from the internet after BOINC is done with its communications. Otherwise you will get a pop up asking you if you want to disconnect.

Day-of-the-week override, provides a selection on which days you want BOINC to connect to the internet to communicate with the projects you are attached to. If you only want to use it on Sundays from 2am till 5pm, you select Sunday and add 02:00-17:00 in the time box. Can be selected for multiple days.

[[File:prefs_disk.png|link=|100px|frame|Disk and Memory usage]]

Use at most 100 Gigabytes disk space, set the maximum amount of disk space that BOINC can use for itself, all the projects you are attached to and all the work you download.

Leave at least 1 Gigabytes disk space, sets the minimum amount of disk space that BOINC should leave free on the disk drive. Keep in mind that on most Windows systems the page file lives on this drive as well.

Use at most 50% of total disk space, sets the maximum amount of space that BOINC can use on the total hard drive. If you have multiple partitions, this number will look at the complete hard drive size, not the partition size.

Write to disk at most every 60 seconds, sets the frequency at which BOINC will write a task's state to disk. BOINC writes its own state to disk very frequently, this option won't change that frequency. The science application does not have to follow this frequency, some follow their own frequency no matter what number you add here.

Use at most 75% of page file (swap space), sets the amount of page file that BOINC can use at maximum. it uses the page file (or swap space) to store tasks in when used in combination with the "leave tasks in memory while suspended" option.

Use at most 50% of memory when computer is in use, sets the amount of RAM that BOINC can use at maximum while the computer is in use. This can cause tasks to stop with the message "Waiting for memory".

Use at most 90% of memory when computer is idle, sets the amount of RAM that BOINC can use at maximum while the computer is idle.

Leave applications in memory while suspended, leaves the science applications in memory (page file) when BOINC switches between applications. Very useful setting for tasks that do not checkpoint and otherwise run from beginning till ending without stopping. If BOINC is stopped or the computer rebooted, the applications in memory will be unloaded and upon a restart of BOINC the tasks that don't checkpoint will still start from the beginning.
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2016-05-22T04:18:49Z

Kiska:

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2016-05-22T04:18:41Z

Kiska:

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2016-05-22T04:07:59Z

Kiska:

Talk:Things still to do

2016-05-22T04:00:59Z

Kiska: /* CreditNew, what to do with it. */