FAHClient V7.1.33 released (3rd Open-Beta)
by jcoffland » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:58 pm
Beta Testers,
This release addresses many of the issues found during internal and beta testing. Some of the highlights of this release are improved GPU detection and support, improved networking communication, better OSX support and the addition of themes. There are many other minor tweaks and fixes which can be seen in the change logs below.
There is still much more work to do. Our next major goal is to get the v7 beta client ready to take over as the recommended download on the
main Folding@home download page. We are hoping to achieve this by January, if not sooner. Before this will happen we plan to resolve all the tickets currently listed in the
Open Beta Phase 2 milestone. To this end we, will be making more frequent open-beta releases over the next months.
Please continue to let us know which issues are most important to you. Our ticket triage is based mainly on three factors 1) severity, 2) implementation difficulty and 3) the importance to Folding@home donors. Although it's not always immediately obvious, your feedback is a huge factor in how we decide to allocate our development resources. The time you spend debugging and articulating your thoughts in these forums may not earn you folding points but improvements in the Folding@home software, which make it more effective, easier to use or just plain more fun, can have a huge impact on disease research.
Thank you for all your help thus far. Let's squash some bugs.
Joseph Coffland
Folding@home Developer
Cauldron Development LLC
Documentation
Installation and user guides can be found here:
FAHControl -> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) what controls the Slots.
FAHViewer -> It shows the protein being folded, if applicable.
Pictorial Installation Guide (Windows) -> A detailed pictorial guide on the V7 installation.
Installation Guide (Windows) -> A brief guide on Windows installation.
Installation Guide (Linux) -> A guide for Linux installation.
Installation Guide (OSX) -> A guide for OSX installation that is in progress.
Client Remote Interface -> Documentation for 3rd party developers.
Main Page -> Main page of the V7.
Getting Help
Aside from the documentation the best place to get help is in this forum. If you do have a problem post a message. There are many knowledgeable people ready and willing to help. Keep in mind, we greatly appreciate thorough reports delivered by patient people who can keep a
cool head even when things go wrong.
Bugs/Tickets
Open Tickets Ordered by Milestone and Priority
Active Tickets by Change Time
Note: Some tickets may be closed because they are fixed in an upcoming alpha release but are not yet fixed in the beta release.
Here are the change logs:
v7.1.25:
- Hide 'Quit on window close' option in OSX.
- Fixed some problems with WU assign time and time offset calculations.
- Detect and ignore invalid assign time from older WS.
- Log computed WS time offset.
- Removed warning from Slot configuration about changing threads mid-run.
- Catch and log error accessing battery info in /sys on Linux
- Fix grayed out name and IP in client add after viewing local client. #640.
- Remove 'RS480 PCI-X Root Port' from GPU whitelist. #635
- Added a few new Radeon HD 6xxx cards.
- Added Nvidia GTX 590 device ID 0x1088 to whitelist.
- Increase Radeon HD 5xxxx and 6xxxx GPU type level by one. #653.
- Don't fail WS connections if all data was recieved even on net error.
- Print IP Address with 'Uploading' message.
- Fixes for OSX minimize and quit bugs. #649 & #659.
- Limit max CPUs per slot to system count. #652.
- Attempt to fix #654.
- Release system resources when querying OSX battery status. #650.
- Don't send 'auth' command from FAHControl if empty. #658.
- Fixed 'slot-add' NULL pointer exception. #666.
- Fixed 'log-updates start' error. #671.
- Fixed FAHClient script parsing bug. #676.
- Show 'Remote Access' tab in advanced mode. #648.
- Don't allow minimizing to sys-tray if it is not there. #670.
- Also print core return code numbers in hex. #677.
- Print times in ISO 8601 format. #664.
- Expire WUs in sending status.
v7.1.26:
- Correctly report client version to WS with WU return.
- Failed upload attempt could cause WU to dump before it was expired. #679.
- Added AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series to GPU white-list.
- Fix failure to restart FAHControl in OSX when 'start minimized'. #649.
- Fixed a socket bug that could cause the loss of the end of a message.
- Build OSX client in 32-bit mode with Intel compiler.
- Reduced socket send buffer size to 32KiB to try to solve #682.
- Attempt to fix PCI detect crash in Windows. #695.
- Whitelisted more GPUs.
v7.1.27:
- Check shared info modification time in an attempt to fix #688.
- More GPU whitelisting.
- Fixed Windows PCI/GPU detection, broke in v7.1.26. #701.
- Use WS UTC WU assign time in client wo/ computing offset #697, #681.
- If running WU is dumped shutdown the core. #700.
v7.1.28:
- Hopefully finally fixed the OSX on battery detection code.
- More GPU whitelist changes.
v7.1.29:
- Print UNSUPPORTED in front of unsupported GPUs in info.
- Removed unsupported gpu-vendor-id and gpu-device-id options.
- Allow auto-configuring both GPU and SMP. #629
- Configure GPU & SMP by default in Windows.
- Repaired OS description printing in info.
- Use OS bits to determine 32 vs 64 rather than build bits. #703
- Enabled GPU detection in OSX.
- Removed 'gpu-id' and added 'cuda-index' and 'opencl-index' options.
- GTX465 -> Fermi. #661
- Automatically install themes in Windows installer.
v7.1.30:
- Attempt to fix OSX PCI scan crash.
v7.1.31:
- Another attempt to fix OSX PCI scan crash.
v7.1.32:
- Added 'gpu-usage' option with default of 80%.
- Added percent GPU usage slider in FAHControl.
- Added 'opencl-index' and 'cuda-index' options to FAHControl.
- 'gpu-id' -> 'gpu-index' in FAHControl.
v7.1.33:
- Set default 'gpu-usage' to 100%, until GPU cores implement better throttle.
- Fixed client connection rate limiting.
- Fixed error reporting for bad slot configuration. #582.
- Attempt to fix EUE reporting for WSv4. #615.
- Fixed "Wrong architecture" bug on 32-bit Ubunut. #599.
- Dropped "64-bit" Windows release. Use 32-bit on all systems.