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Folding@home Changelog

What's new in Folding@home 7.6.21

Jun 21, 2021
  • Removed old Windows startup link. Causes 2 clients to start.

New in Folding@home 7.6.20 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fix for unicode escape sequence handling in log files.

New in Folding@home 7.6.19 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Prevent deleted or disabled slot from getting WUs.

New in Folding@home 7.6.18 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Removed unnecessary debian deps on bzip2 and zlib1g.
  • Fixed GPU slot initialization problem.
  • Fix start up failure when OpenCL is not present.
  • Fixed GPU allocation bug from v7.6.17

New in Folding@home 7.6.17 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Added ``auto-conf`` option. Set false to disable auto slot config.

New in Folding@home 7.6.16 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Automatically enable unrecognized GPUs w/ OpenCL 1.2 support in beta.
  • Try to automatically match GPU to OpenCL/CUDA devices wo/ PCI info.

New in Folding@home 7.6.15 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed slot allocation bug.
  • Disable GPU species 1 unless ``gpu-beta`` flag is enabled.
  • ID GPU devices by ``pci-bus`` and ``pci-slot`` rather than ``gpu-index``.

New in Folding@home 7.6.14 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Detect GPUs before initializing modules.
  • Improved GPU detection.
  • Enable "finish" from Web client. #1415, #1352
  • Don't try to download new WU if slot is paused or finishing. #1399, #1375
  • Fix windows non-admin install. #1398
  • Windows install client for all users. #1409, #1380

New in Folding@home 7.6.13 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Wait to print info blocks to log until after GPUs are detected.

New in Folding@home 7.6.12 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Don't download GPUs.txt when using ``--send-command``.
  • Fixed GPUs.txt timestamp check.

New in Folding@home 7.6.11 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Reduce max delay from 6 hours to 1.

New in Folding@home 7.6.10 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fix data dir removal confirmation message in Windows.
  • Download GPUs.txt at startup before configuring the slots.

New in Folding@home 7.6.8 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Remove bug submission dialog, point to GitHub instead
  • Use PUT instead of GET to access web session ID. Probably more secure.

New in Folding@home 7.6.7 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Make sure Web control gets opened when requested.

New in Folding@home 7.6.6 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fix ``slot-options`` command response header

New in Folding@home 7.6.5 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Always allow 127.0.0.1 access to web server.
  • Update GPUs.txt even if GPUs are not currently enabled.
  • Instead of altering data dir in Windows, confirm removal.
  • Remove unsupported windows themes on install.

New in Folding@home 7.6.4 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Make sure Windows data directory ends with ``FAHClient``.
  • Fix Linux service shutdown.
  • Avoid caching old Web interface.
  • Fix for Windows service install.
  • Fix Windows start menu.

New in Folding@home 7.6.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Organize info blocks

New in Folding@home 7.6.1 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Mask newer GLIBC calls for better Linux compatibility.
  • Add COVID-19 option.
  • Hardened command server and Web interface security.

New in Folding@home 7.5.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Updated missing GPU slot messages to prompt user to install the driver.
  • Updated copyright.

New in Folding@home 7.5.1 (Jun 4, 2018)

  • FAHClient:
  • OSX installer updates. @kbernhagen
  • FAHControl:
  • OSX installer updates. @kbernhagen
  • Fix for slot/queue highlighting. @informatoris
  • Install Gtk theme engines in correct place on Windows.
  • FAHViewer:
  • OSX installer updates. @kbernhagen
  • Fixed PyON message parsing.

New in Folding@home 7.4.4 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • This version sports a new streamlined Web interface as well as numerous improvements to the user experience and folding performance.

New in Folding@home 7.4.4 Beta (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Fixed failure to update GPUs.txt file. #1115
  • Don't delete slots on initialization error. #1117
  • Always allow 127.0.0.1 (localhost) to connect to FAHClient. #1120
  • Tweaks to Web control. #1116
  • Don't display points for Anonymous or team 0.

New in Folding@home 7.4.1 Beta (Jan 25, 2014)

  • Save config.xml on any changes.
  • Fixed QRB calculation, again. #1044
  • Report progress down to 0.01%.
  • Correct for cores which report incorrect frame/step. #888
  • OSX: workaround for slow communication on 10.9 as service. #1103
  • Removed trigger-save command, no longer necessary.
  • Only allow one visualization type per WU.
  • Update GPUs.txt when gpu=true, log message on update.

New in Folding@home 7.4.0 Beta (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Disabled stall detection by default.
  • Added options stall-detection-enabled, stall-timeout & stall-percent.

New in Folding@home 7.1.52 Beta (Mar 22, 2012)

  • FAHClient:
  • Account for ',' as decimal point in some locales. #849.
  • FAHControl:
  • Select 'Identity' tab by default. #851
  • FAHViewer:
  • Link statically with libGLEW in .deb packages.