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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, rosetta@home, Leiden Classical and Hydrogen@Home. For more information about the how and what of Boinc, we refer you to this page. The developers released a new version for Windows a while ago labeled stable. The version number is fixed at 6.4.7 and includes the following list of changes since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Version 6.4.7:

  • A deadlocked graphics application could cause the screensaver to lock up. Most users would reboot their computer to re-gain control of it.
  • LibCurl security advisory –
  • OpenSSL advisory –

Version 6.4.6:

  • client: add config option
  • WINSETUP: Fix the problem introduced where Enable Application execution wasn’t working.
  • MGR: Don’t convert strings to ANSI juts to have to reconvert them back to Unicode. Fix several help link issues.Fixes #826
  • WINSCR: Fix the BOINC text displayed is the screensaver control panel applet
  • WINSCR: Get rid of the ‘Up to 5 second wait’ for the data thread to terminate. Force terminate the thread and clean up the graphics app in a clean-up routine. Forcing the user to wait when they return to the system isn’t a good idea.
  • WINSCR: Fix screensaver issue where the screensaver locks up when the graphics application deadlocks for one reason or another.

Create two new threads:

  • Monitor system for keyboard and mouse events.
  • Shuffle window z-order positions if needed.
  • The keyboard/mouse event monitor is isolated from either the core client getting stuck in a loop and not returning the results of an RPC or the window shuffling code which can get stuck if the graphics application dead locks.

    The window shuffle code is isolated due to the BroadcastSystemMessage?() API using something akin to SendMessage?() which waits for a return value from the target windows winproc. If a graphics application deadlocks for one reason or another it’ll cause the thread to stall. This isn’t terminal and so we just wait for the next time the data thread chooses a new application and terminates the old one which will cause the thread to resume.

    This should resolve all outstanding issues with the screensaver not exiting when the mouse or keyboard is used.

    Version number 6.4.7
    Release status stable
    Operating systems Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64
    Website Boinc
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    License type GPL
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