Download Seventeen or Bust 1.2.5

The Seventeen or Bust distributed-computing project tries to prove with the help of computer users around the world that k=78,557 is the smallest Sierpinski number in the form of k * 2^n + 1. Over the years, all k values ​​have been exclude except for seventeen values ​​that remained. To this end, the Seventeen or Bust project has been set up to check the remaining values. To date, six have been eliminated over a period of 20 months.

The development team recently released version 1.2.5 of the client for the Linux, FreeBSD and Windows platforms. The changelog looks like this:

Windows

• all memory bugs effecting linux patched as preventive measure
• tweak to caching code to prevent hanging on exit

Linux & FreeBSD

• no more memory leak
• fix intermediate block problem
• fixed an invalid write of size 1 after getting a new block causing segfaults
• fixed another invalid write causing a segfault on reporting complete blocks
• fixed an unitialzed value in a loop on first block
• fixed network transmit hang bug
• fixed network transmit bug on 2.2 kernels due to lack of socket options
• removed config since teams are done via the website and updated sclient.conf to reflect this
• fix weird strcpy in cpudetect code

[break]The following downloads are ready:
Windows
Linux
FreeBSD