Release Notes for BOINC 7.16
From BOINC
Changes in 7.16
- If output file is missing on startup, flag task as error.
- Let project specify directories in logical file names.
- Fix security vulnerability involving logical file names.
- Make "reread config files" work for ncpus.
- Support fetch of files over GUI RPC; allow projects to supply their own web-based GUI.
- FreeBSD: check for AVX
- Support GUI RPCs as HTTP Post requests.
- Register user consent to terms of use.
- Enable "Other options" in simple view if no client connected.
- Clear "vm_extensions_disabled" flag on startup.
- Fix work fetch bug when max_concurrent used.
- Unsuspend jobs before telling them to quit.
- Sanity-check job runtime limits.
- Fix overflow in OpenCL GPU FLOPS calculation.
- Windows: show processor group info at startup
- Fix stall if --skip_cpu_benchmarks
- Fix crash in RSS feed fetch
- Windows: fix GUI RPC password generation when running in a VM
- Windows: make --dir work