BOINC v5.2.2 recommended

[NeoGen]

The new version of BOINC, v5.2.2 is now the official recommended version for Windows. You can get it here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

New Features
- Dial-up support has now been enhanced to support service installs, and shared user installs.
- Account Management has been enhanced and support has been enabled in the stock install of BOINC.
- Alerts have been enabled to provide instant feedback when certain types of errors occur.
- BOINC Manager now supports the Microsoft Active Accessibility standard.
- BOINC is now capable of using HTTPS and has better proxy support through the use of curl.
- BOINC can now use username and passwords for authentication instead of an authenticator.
- BOINC now employs a wizard during an attach to project operation to guide people thruogh the process of attaching to a project as well as check for things like proxy configuration issues.
- BOINC now automatically generates a password that is used for network communication. If you use programs like BOINCView or any other third party tool you may need to look up or change the password specified in gui_rpc_auth.cfg. This change keeps people from randomly detaching from projects over the network on remote machines.



EDIT:
I myself will wait a little more until installing it. Several projects still need to upgrade their serverside software to support this new client.

[NVM]

i have the fleet running CP on B5. i'm trickling all over the place... :shock:

[gamer007]

It's been a day and I haven't been able to download anything from SETI.


10/22/05 12:58:41|SETI@home|Successfully attached to SETI@home
10/22/05 12:58:42|SETI@home|Started download of setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.exe
10/22/05 12:58:42|SETI@home|Started download of better_banner.jpg
10/22/05 12:58:46|SETI@home|Deferring communication with project for 10 minutes and 0 seconds
10/22/05 12:58:58||Couldn't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu]
10/22/05 12:58:58||Couldn't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu]
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.exe: can't resolve hostname
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.exe
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of better_banner.jpg: can't resolve hostname
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file better_banner.jpg
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Started download of setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.pdb
10/22/05 12:58:58|SETI@home|Started download of 15my04aa.22809.2672.853396.25
10/22/05 12:59:15||Couldn't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu]
10/22/05 12:59:15||Couldn't resolve hostname [setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu]
10/22/05 12:59:15|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.pdb: can't resolve hostname
10/22/05 12:59:15|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file setiathome_4.18_windows_intelx86.pdb
10/22/05 12:59:15|SETI@home|Temporarily failed download of 15my04aa.22809.2672.853396.25: can't resolve hostname
10/22/05 12:59:15|SETI@home|Backing off 1 minutes and 0 seconds on download of file 15my04aa.22809.2672.853396.25



Anyone else having problems w/ download off SETI? I've even tried detaching and reattching.

[NVM]

i see 5.2.7 is now the latest...

[NeoGen]

Yea, I've tried it already. Runs nicely. Bad thing is the projects that don't support v5 yet.

I've heard there are some discrepancies on the claimed credit between boinc v4 and these new v5 versions. I heard that the v5 claims more credits for the same work than v4... can anyone confirm this?

[mitro]

I still have to convert my main rig.... I hate change :)

[PoorBoy]

I've heard there are some discrepancies on the claimed credit between boinc v4 and these new v5 versions. I heard that the v5 claims more credits for the same work than v4... can anyone confirm this?

With almost every Client Version change the is a difference in the Credit Claimed due mainly to the difference in way the new Client Benchmarks your PC or PC's ...