BOINC 6.12.26 is now the recommended client for public use.

 

The primary focus in this release is a feature called notices.  The
BOINC client software can now consume RSS feeds to deliver project
information to the volunteer at the same time they are checking on task
instance status.  Volunteers will no longer be required to visit the
various project homepages to find out the latest and greatest of what
the various projects are doing.  For those volunteers who participate in
forums additional notices will be given for friend requests and private
messages.  We believe this will increase the project/volunteer
interaction experience.

 

Projects are strongly encouraged to enable notices, details can be found
here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/P...

 

Volunteers can change the frequency on how often they are reminded about
new notices by adjusting the reminder frequency in the 'Display and
network options' dialog in the Advanced GUI.

 

We would like to thank all the volunteers who helped test this release
and all 6.11/6.12 releases throughout the development cycle.

 

----- Rom

BOINC Development Team

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Co-owner, the Group of 10 100 200 300

~go get yourself some cheap sunglasses... Nice pic of the dog!

One major concern a few of us in the IRC noticed, greeri had pointed out the messages tab is gone. I'm not too keen on that, as I almost always check to see what's going on in the messages if I'm getting a backlog or running low on work. Greeri found that ctl+shift+e will bring up the messages in a new window, so I guess that will have to suffice for now.

Paul

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Co-owner, the Group of 10 100 200 300

I've been running the 6.12.XX version for a while now and it seems that a bug still exists for notices. The notices will still show up every time even months old ones

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