September 23rd, 2011· Fix: Fix diagnostics error dialog poping up for the screensaver
· Fix: Fix diagnostics output for BOINC Manager
May 24th, 2011· New: Project notices. This feature is designed to help projects improve communication between themselves and the volunteers by automatically displaying project news within the BOINC Manager
· New: VirtualBox Detection for projects that want to process work within a Virtual Machine
· New: New BOINC Skin for the simple GUI
· Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
· Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
· Fix: Adjust permissions when installed as a service so that project GPU applications are not denied access to GPU DLLs (WinXP and Win2000 Only)
June 10th, 2010· New: Updated localization files
· New: Added support for parsing username and password information from environment variables
· New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of ignore device through the use of a configuration file option
· New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain applications are run through the use of a configuration file option
· New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS specific configuration screen
· New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu
· New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity menu
· New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup Project" by setting its resource share to 0
· New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to 25%)
· New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)
· New: Support for custom installers to automatically cause new accounts to join a specific team when atteching to a project for the first time (Windows)
· New: Support for Nvidia Fermi cards
· New: Added support for 'Transfer at most X Megabytes every N days' preference
· Fix: Reduce CPU load in dealing with communications between manager and core client (Windows)
· Fix: Properly display project descriptions on Windows XP machines in the attach to project wizard
· Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
· Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
· Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their icons in the project list
· Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via messages.
April 22nd, 2010· New: Updated localization files
· New: Added support for parsing username and password information from environment variables
· New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of ignore device through the use of a configuration file option
· New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain applications are run through the use of a configuration file option
· New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS specific configuration screen
· New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu
· New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity menu
· New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup Project" by setting its resource share to 0
· New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to 25%)
· New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)
· Fix: Reduce CPU load in dealing with communications between manager and core client (Windows)
· Fix: Properly display project descriptions on Windows XP machines in the attach to project wizard
· Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
· Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
· Fix: Mac Installer for non-admin installs
· Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their icons in the project list
· Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via messages.
April 22nd, 2010· Updated localization files
· Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8l (Fixes a new man in the middle potential exploit due to encryption renegotiation)
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