Hey,
In the past, the topic of 'users ignoring BOINC client upgrades' has
repeatedly come up and has begun holding back potential security
improvements.
> On 11/15/2016, David Anderson wrote:
> The issue is that many/most existing users don't upgrade the
client when there's a new recommended release.
> -- David
>
>> On 11/14/2016 1:29 AM, CM wrote:
>> Are there any statistics available on the quantity of
computers/clients that are too old to upgrade?
This has been brought up recently:
http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2016-November/022288.html
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1644
Why is this the case?
* A lack of upgrade notification within the BOINC client?
o Perhaps we could utilize the built-in notice system to push
upgrade notices to old/vulnerable BOINC clients? Is this only
possible via a BOINC project?
o Perhaps in a future client release we could include an upgrade
pop-up notice which would direct users to upgrade instructions?
* A lack of available upgraded BOINC clients for old operating
systems/hardware?
o I understand that BOINC provides new purpose for old
systems/hardware, but are there any available statistics to
indicate the quantity of active clients running an unsupported
platform? If it's only a very small pool of computers then
perhaps we could entirely ignore these platforms?
Any ideas for how we could tackle this issue?
Best regards,
CM.
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