Change Log 5.10.24

Change Log 5.10.24, October 18, 2007

• client: add config flag
• GUI RPC: add disallow_attach and simple_gui_only flags to CC_STATUS structure
• client: timezone reflects daylight savings time (Win) from David Barnard; fixes SVN ticket #334
• GUI RPC: add replies for ops that don't return anything
• GUI RPC: check args for project_attach
• GUI RPC: return error (not blank) if no prefs override file
• add error string for ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS
• client: zero out xfer_speed in HTTP_OP constructor (may fix problem w/ #INF bandwidth display)
• client: when a job finishes, read last (not first) 63KB of stderr
• client: parse in scheduler reply;

add cpid_time field to PROJECT. This defaults to the user_create_time.

In deciding which CPID to send in a scheduler request, use the one with oldest cpid_time (not user_create_time). This is the client half of fixing a bug that causes CPID to flip/flop between to values in a certain case.

• client: CPU scheduler: if a project has 2 jobs with same deadline, give preference to jobs already started
• MGR: clean up text in system tray balloon
• client: use dd-MMM-yyyy format for dates; mm/dd/yyyy is ambiguous and mixed-endian
• client: restore element on GUI RPC result XML (needed by BOINCSpy)
• client: CPU sched fix
• client: performance tweak for CPU sched
• client: fix /proc/cpuinfo parsing for linux 2.6.23, powerPC
• client: get_proxy_settings GUI RPC requires authentication
• client: improve log messages