BOINC 6.10.5 is released for Windows and Mac. The unoffical change log from the BOINC message board...

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Charlie 11 September 2009
- Mgr: skip exit confirmation dialog if user pressed emergency Exit button on AsyncRPCDlg

Charlie 16 September 2009
- Mac installer: ask user whether to allow non-administrative users to run and control BOINC

Charlie 17 September 2009
- Mac installer: create a new command-line tool AddRemoveUser; updated ReadMe file

Rom 17 September 2009
- client: add code for faking ATI GPUs

- client: cap time_stats dt at 2 weeks, so people upgrading to 6.10 won't get big drop in on_frac.

- client: fix bug in RR simulation: start only enough jobs to fill CPUs per project, not all the CPU jobs at once.
I'm not sure how much difference this makes, but this is how it's supposed to work.

- client: if app_info.xml doesn't specify flops, use an estimate that takes GPUs into account.

- client: if it's been more than 2 weeks since time stats update, don't decay on_frac at all.

- client: save space in req msg. Didn't make much difference.

- client: fix bug in FIFO selection of coproc jobs (Comment by David: senility setting in?)

- client: add <fraction_done> to boinc_task_state.xml

- client: change order in poll loop so that:
1) job finishes
2) job gets marked as "ready to report"
3) scheduler RPC is initiated
Hopefully this won't have an unintended side-effect.

- client: tweak policy for device busy time. Should eliminate some spurious "job won't complete by deadline" msgs.

- client and scheduler RPC: add optional <cpu_backoff>, <cuda_backoff>, and <ati_backoff> elements to scheduler reply. These specify backoffs for the resource types, overriding the existing backoff mechanism. Projects can supply these if they don't have apps of a particular type and don't want to get periodic requests for them.

- client: cap project-supplied backoffs at 28 days

- client: anal-retentive alphabetization

They seem to have fixed the issue with <on_frac> not being updated and suddenly taking a hit.

It still has the bug with preempting cuda tasks when downloading newer ones, introduced with 6.10.4

Paul has found a problem with the time getting an awful lot of zeroes on the end of it (supposedly already fixed in 6.10.6)

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And is just as bent as 6.10.4 ...

I reported a dt number corruption to be fixed in 6.10.6 and leads to the unconstrained work fetch issue (issue not yet acknowledged).

Well 6.10.6 is out for Windows. But before you all rush out to try it, don't bother. It has the same issue with preempting cuda tasks as 6.10.4 and 5

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