David Anderson wrote:

7.20.0 released for testing (Win and Mac)

Version 7.20.0 of the BOINC client is available to test.
Please download it from here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

... and report test results here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Release notes:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes

Thanks to Vitalii and Charlie for coordinating this release.

-- David

Known issue:

Switching from Advanced view to Simple view will crash the manager with a WxWidgets Debug error. This is being worked on by the developers.

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• [Manager] wxWidgets debug alert when switching between advanced and simple view.
  
• BOINC does not gracefully handle capitalization discrepancies
  
• client: fix #2837 removed a special use case where idle was desired before work fetch
  
• [Manager] Memory access error on closedown
  
• [Manager][linux] Search for skins to display on Simple View
  

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs in 7.20.0.
We fixed some of these, and version 7.20.1 of the client
is now available to test, for Win and Mac.
Release notes: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes

Report results here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Thanks -- David

• [Bugfix] Switch skin when manager is not connected
  
• client: if bandwidth limit is removed (up or down), remove limit from active transfers.
  
• client: fix bug in work fetch logic for case of zero resource share and zero work buf.
  

Client/Manager Release 7.20.2

Dear Mac alpha testers,

I have built a new hot fix release for the Macintosh only, BOINC 7.20.4.

The only changes from the previous 7.20.2 release should be to fix the "Show Graphics" functionality in BOINC Manager and to the screensaver under MacOS 13 Ventura. Please download and try https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.20.4_macOSX_universal.zip and let us know if you find any problems.

If you have access to run older versions of MacOS, please test that "Show Graphics" and the screensaver still work properly there.

Note: I have noticed that some World Community Grid graphics apps appear to be buggy. They sometime work and sometimes don't, both with this new version 7.20.4 and the previous version 7.20.2, so that problem is not due to these changes in BOINC.

Thank you,
Charlie

Please note that there is a known problem under MacOS 11 and later: the close button no longer works on some graphics apps, though it continues to work on others. It is unclear why.

Since the graphics apps are provided by the projects, we have no way to fix this at our end. Our solution (really a workaround) was to modify the BOINC Manager so the "Show Graphics" button changes to "Stop Graphics" when the graphics app is displayed.