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)
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.