There is a new BOINC version ready to download

We got a new BOINC release to crunch with on Windows (32 & 64bit) and Mac OS X (64-bit Intel).

Till now the recommended version was 7.8.3, which was released last autumn, followed by two mac only releases, 7.8.4 and 7.8.5

Here are the download links to the new stable version:

BOINC 7.10.2

BOINC 7.10.2 + VirtualBox 5.2.8

You can also find them on the BOINC download page here.

Since I couldn't find any release notes yet (Now in the update below) here are some command line tools that where announced to ship with 7.10

--acct_mgr info : show current account manager info.

: show current account manager info. --acct_mgr attach URL name password : attach to an account manager.

: attach to an account manager. --acct_mgr synch : synchronize with (via an RPC) the current account manager.

: synchronize with (via an RPC) the current account manager. --acct_mgr detach: detach from the current account manager.

I am especially looking forward to the sync command to be available on linux, since there is currently no such function.

UPDATE:

The changelog can be found here or below.

Preliminary Change Log 7.9.2

MGR: Use wxHTMLWindow in task property window client: fix bug in URL-escaping that fails for non-ASCII chars Locale: add extra space around placeholders MGR: don't crash if GUI RPC returns empty reply client: update keyword handling LIB: Prevent the possible issue of dereferencing a NULL pointer 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. MGR: Mac: code optimization Mac: Add new files keyword.cpp,.h to Xcode project client/LIB: don't flush stdout and stderr in main loop LIB: fix out of bounds write in get_real_executable_path client: add task name and tweak postponed message Add new files for keyword scheduling scheduler: send workunit keywords in reply client: parse job keywords from scheduler and save in state file client: parse keyword file and export keywords in get_state() GUI RPC MGR: if a job has keywords, show them in task properties Mac: Add keyword.cpp,.h to targets screensaver, ss_app and manager in Xcode project Winbuild: add keyword.{h,cpp} to VS2013 solution keyword list: add Australia get_project_config.php: include project keyword list if present MGR: Fix Properties Window MGR: use "client" instead of "daemon" MGR: Properties Window fix client: Fix parsing of AM reply messages MGR: remove excess blank lines in notices client: do coproc detect in a separate process even for debug client, Win: append .exe to service process program name if missing client: hardware client executable name: boinc or boinc.exe MGR: Rename OK button to Save button client: fix keyword parsing MGR: Change OK button on Advanced Preferences to Save button client: show how many project files are being checked MGR: For Statistics graph show values on Y axis with 2 digits after point if these two digits are greater than 0.01 only MGR: fix daily schedules input data check LIB: set correct buffering mode after cycling logs client: explicitly flush stdout on all Windows builds client: fix bug where client does tight loop if no_gui_rpc set client: fix bug in set_app_config GUI RPC Mac project: fix bug in BuildMacBOINC.sh script when -all argument is implied but not explicitly passed Mac: Update Xcode project to build everything 64-bit, in preparation for future removal of 32-bit support in OS 10.14. Mac installer, MGR: Fixes to allow building 64-bit application on Macintosh Mac: Update build scripts to build Manager dependencies wxWidgets and SQLite as 64-bit libraries (temporarily build both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries for backward compatibility) Mac: Update installer build script to eliminate unnecessary special handling of screensaver build which is no longer needed Mac: Update installer build script to get boinc_logo_black.jpg from a different path because it is no long in the doc directory. Build: fail if wxWidgets lib can not be found but is required MGR: update Xcode project and scripts for wxWidgets 3.1.0 because wxWidgets 3.0.0 can not be built using Xcode 9 due to APIs no longer supported by the header files in the OS 10.13 SDK Mac: fix installer build script to allow spaces in paths Build: install locale files in out-of-tree builds client: add support for streamlined register/download/attach client: autologin: parse user_id from installer filename, pass to RPC MGR: don't show Attach Wizard at startup if autologin in progress lookup_login_token RPC: check for volid token MGR: Enable 'Back' button when 'Next' is disabled on FailedLogOn page client: delete autologin file if any errors Windows installer: change custom action to write installer filename to file client: Mac OpenCL: fix arithmetic overflow in memory size calculation for AMD GPUs Mac installer: write name of installer to installer_filename.txt in BOINC Data directory Mac installer: Make everything in zipped top-level directory user-writable so project web code using auto-attach can delete it after inflating, modifying installer name and recompressing it Mac installer: check whether the project server provided the installer_filename.txt file by putting it in the same parent directory as our installer bundle (the bundle's default name is "BOINC Installer.app"). If yes, copy the provided file into the BOINC Data directory. Otherwise create the installer_filename.txt file and write the name of our installer bundle in it MGR: simple view: don't show attach wizard on startup if autologin file present Add script to get versions; don't show VBox button if no VBox version client: don't handle GUI RPCs until account token lookup RPC is finished client: change constant INSTALLER_FILENAME_FILENAME TO client: change comment that referred to old autologin filename login token lookup RPC: return team name also client: change some links and urls to use https instead of http client: make autologin work for account managers as well as projects login_token_lookup RPC: make it work for account managers too MGR: if client is auto-attaching to a project, increase the delay before displaying the "Communicating with client" dialog from 1.5 seconds to 60 second. This allows for the time the auto-attach may take before GUI RPCs are enabled. But we do display it after 60 seconds a a safety feature, so that the user can exit BOINC if the client hangs Mac installer: correctly replace screensaver when installing an older version of BOINC to replace a newer version Mac installer: correctly determine package name and branding if installer file name has been modified client: if autologin project ID not in project list, get new list client: change name of autologin file MGR: don't bother checking for autologin file before showing attach wizard client: keep track of whether project list fetch was triggered by autologin client: include platform names in account manager request boinccmd: Add commands to do acct mgr RPC, and to show acct mgr info Mac installer: Replicate commit 5296088 previously made in trunk: correctly replace screensaver when installing an older version of BOINC to replace a newer version Mac client: Fix bug which caused BOINC client built with SDK OS 10.11 or later to fail to get correct system RAM size when running on older versions of OS X boinccmd: Correct user help text for changes after original creation Locale: Update localization files client: fix BSD build (from Larry Rosenman) boinccmd: change command from --acct_mgr synch to --acct_mgr sync client: update ca-bundle.crt to latest copy of certificates from boinccmd: show CPU/GPU resources in --get_task Build: optionally disable webview support in wxWidgets MGR: Use wxHtmlWindow in DlgItemProperties MGR: support wxWidgets without webview component MGR: use correct clipboard when copying text client: gather libc version on Linux client: refine libc version gathering client: fix libc version gathering Mac GFX Library: fix bugs introduced in commit baac677 when rendering some graphics apps. Project graphics apps for Macintosh should be relinked with libboinc_graphics2.a built using these updated source files MGR: Make webview support optional MGR: adjust Event Log stripe color Linux: Add generated systemd unit Remove HOST_USAGE.max_ncpus. It's not used anywhere. avg_ncpus is always used instead client: updated all_projects_list.xml

Preliminary Change Log 7.9.2->7.9.3

Mac: Patch ares_config.h andcurl_config.h to not use clock_gettime(), which is defined in OS 10.11 SDK but was not available before OS 10.11. This caused the client built on OS 10.11 or OS 10.12 to crash on launch when run on older versions of OS X. MGR: Fix copyright year in About window client: not an error if a file starts with account_ but is not accounting file Web: Update links in license files to point correct link to sources Web: Fix copyright year WinBuild: Fix VS compile warnings. No functional change Winbuild: fix installer problem for VirtualBox Winbuild: update included VirtualBox to 5.2.8

Preliminary Change Log 7.9.3->7.10.2

Mac: Fix wxWidgets 3.1.0 Mac-only bug when wxStaticBox has no label (computing prefs dlg) Linux: Default working directory changed to /var/lib/boinc client: Fix buffer size for call of function GetWindowText Let AMs use authenticators instead of name/password Linux: Use per-thread locale - fixes timestamp formating in Event Log. Show build not OS platform in messages Fix fields populating on 'Add Project' wizard on launch Updates to all_projects_list.xml for 'Add Project' wizard Mac: Update build documentation Mac: Provide script for updating certificate bundle Winbuild: Change to build files associated with client simulator changes Winbuild: Fix copyright symbol in resource files Remove 'theSkyNet POGS' from all_projects_list.xml - project has completed its survey and is closing down

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