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Message 109598 - Posted: 14 Aug 2022, 6:55:10 UTC
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Fairly trivial but possibly worth a fix if it hasn't been done already. I saw on the website that a new version was available, My machines here have 7.16.7 and can see from the website that the current version is substantially later. However, if I click the "Check for new BOINC version" from the "Help" tabs at the top of BOINC Manager, it says "There is no new version of BOINC Manager available for download".
Also, that note looks to be specific to BOINC Manager, does this need to be the case?
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Message 109599 - Posted: 14 Aug 2022, 7:56:45 UTC - in response to Message 109598.  

Which operating system and hardware? There was a fault with the notification system for Apple macs in the M1 - Apple silicon - range, but that should be fixed now.

For mainstream hardware and operating systems, all should have v7.20.2 available by now.
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Message 109601 - Posted: 14 Aug 2022, 19:46:25 UTC

I noticed this today on one of my machines, 4GHz i7 PC, Windows 8.1 x64. As I said, if already fixed, no issue.
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Message 109602 - Posted: 14 Aug 2022, 19:58:30 UTC

I wasn't (and I'm still not) aware of any problem with Windows - which was why I asked.

Unless the Mac developer broke it while fixing his own OS ???
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Message 109604 - Posted: 14 Aug 2022, 21:05:28 UTC

It was here this morning on one of my systems. As I said, though trivial, but I expect a trivial job to correct.
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Message 109607 - Posted: 15 Aug 2022, 3:22:36 UTC - in response to Message 109602.  

I wasn't (and I'm still not) aware of any problem with Windows - which was why I asked.

Unless the Mac developer broke it while fixing his own OS ???

I thought the notification was only polled every 28 days. So if the last polling was before the 20.2 release, then it should come up again in 28 days or sooner.


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Message 109608 - Posted: 15 Aug 2022, 6:10:58 UTC - in response to Message 109607.  

See thread 14749. Sometimes relying on assumptions like that can allow a genuine problem to pass unheeded. That's why I like to get to the real facts behind the report.
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