We are getting a few sporadic reports, so far with inadequate details, of both
Linux and OS X client crashes using v7.8.2, which leave even older clients
(after re-installation) unable to start. It appears that the crashes are
possibly triggered by an application crash, but as yet it's unclear why that
should take out BOINC as well - my working hypothesis is file corruption, but I
have no direct evidence yet.
It might be worth holding off on new releases while this issue is still
unexplained.
On Sunday, 17 September 2017, 23:50, Charlie Fenton
<charl...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote:
As I wrote earlier, I'm working on screensaver fixes for compatibility with
Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra. But it will be a few more days or a week before that
is ready for testing, so don't hold off on 7.10 for that. I'll merge it into
both master and the branch after the pull request is approved.
I likely will also want to merge these into a hot-fix version 7.8.3 for Mac
only with the screensaver changes before 7.10 is ready for public release,
since OS 10.13 is set for public release on September 25.
At the same time, I will be submitting a tech support request tonight with
Apple asking if there is a better way to fix the problem than the one I have
been working on. Ideal of course would be a fix that does not require any
changes to the project graphics apps, but I'm not too hopeful for that.
(As I wrote before, I expect the fix I am currently working on to only require
the projects to rebuild their existing graphics apps with the new libraries
that I will supply; no changes to the project's code should be needed. It will
of course also involve changes to the BOINC screensaver coordinator included
with the BOINC Mac installer.)
Cheers,
--Charlie
On Sep 17, 2017, at 2:47 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Master has a number of improvements relative to 7.8.2,
> so I'd like to make a release branch and start testing soon.
>
> Is there any work in progress that I should wait for?
>
> Thanks -- David
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