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Dave Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2550
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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. Trying to go to form I get the following
No account with email address [email protected] exists. Please go back and try again. With no option for creating an account. Browser tries to use same email and password as I use for the forums.
For what it is worth having built my own from source on my Ubuntu22.04 box I don't get the error on changing to simple view. wxwidgets version is 3.0.5
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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15490
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BOINC 7.20.1 released for testing for Windows.
- [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
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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15490
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David Anderson wrote: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 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php
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Toby Broom
Send message Joined: 14 Apr 12 Posts: 49
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Is there an ETA for the 7.20 to be the recommended?
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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15490
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/me spreads tea leaves, dice, tarot cards, speal bones and sticks my wet finger up into the wind.... No, sorry. I don't know.
I guess: when it's done, the majority of bugs have been ridden out of it. Why? What's the hurry?
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Toby Broom
Send message Joined: 14 Apr 12 Posts: 49
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OK, just curious, I installed 7.20.1 on a computer and it seems quite stable, I was inspired but ubuntu 22.04 where there is a development version included.
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5082
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BOINC 7.20.2 released for testing for Windows.
- [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
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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15490
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BOINC 7.20.4 for Macintosh only
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
Edit:
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.
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