Download Boinc 5.10.40

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is a distributed computing platform available for Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, and Windows. A number of grid projects make use of this platform, such as SETI@home, Riesel Sieve, Leiden Classical and Climateprediction.net. For more information about the how and what of Boinc, we refer you to this page. The developers recently released a new version in the development branch with 5.10.40 as the version number for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The announcement looks like this:

Version 5.10.40:

Howdy Folks,

We have a new build of the 5.10 ready for testing.

This build has a new version of libcurl so please stress uploads and downloads. Another note of interest is for those with NTLM proxies, the code has been removed that would keep NTLM proxies from working. A new configuration flag has been added called which will work around a couple of issues with choosing the right authentication method.

Please report test results here and bug reports here.

TIA.
—– Rom

ChangeLog:

• Mac: Update libCurl to 7.18.0, build with c-ares-1.5.1 to enable async DNS name resolving.
• MGR: Delete web site buttons when disconnected; this was causing crashes when a user connected to a different computer.
• client: add config flag. Causes client to use NTLM auth and HTTP 1.0
• client: we weren’t doing exponential backoff if scheduler requests failed at initialization; fix this
• client: removed -return_results_immediately cmdline option (wasn’t implemented anyway)
• client: added configuration flag; causes results to be reported as soon as done. Needed for some WCG machines that are reformatted often. Should NOT be used in general, since it increases server load.
• client: If we are already attached to the project specified in the project_init.xml file, go ahead and delete the file.
• client: remove the auth_type and auth_flag code.
• WIN: Update libcurl to 7.18.0