Version 2.14 for Windows is now out, fixing the firewall-bug. Setihome is up to v2.11.
Some other versions is also out, and hopefully they've fixed the Ultra-Sparc-turbo-bug...
More detailed info, by David Anderson:
"We released the 2.14 core client for Windows. The only change
is that we fixed a bug that prevented the client from
working through Norton Personal Firewall.
We are releasing new versions of the SETI@home and AP applications
for various platforms, including Solaris and Windows.
There have been problems on Solaris involving shared libraries.
The new versions are statically linked, which fixes this
(although the executables are much bigger).
We're keeping a close eye on incoming results to make sure
all versions are working correctly.
There have been lots of changes (hopefully improvements) in
the message boards and Q/A areas.
Our goal is for the Q/A area to be a self-updating FAQ.
Users (in most cases) find their question in a pre-existing list,
and find the answer there, rather than posting a new message.
This will be important when the user base expands to ~1M.
The need for this functionality (among other) is why we implemented
our own BBS instead of using PHPBB or similar."
Beta-test-status:
"The beta test has been and continues to be critically important
to getting BOINC and the SETI/BOINC applications ready for launch.
I realize that sometimes it takes a long time for us to fix bugs,
and this can be frustrating for beta testers,
but we've made substantial progress.
Part of the problem has been optimizing the flow of information
from beta-testers to our programmers.
Jens and other volunteers have been a huge help by reading
and summarizing bug reports for us;
hopefully the Q/A area will help also.
The testing of the original SETI@home took about 8 months,
and BOINC is significantly more complex (and powerful),
so it's not unexpected that things are taking so long.
A lot of behind-the-scenes work is going on here;
Eric Korpela and Jeff Cobb are currently testing
"splitter" and "assimilator" programs for SETI@home/BOINC
so that soon you'll be analyzing new data,
and the results will get recorded in our science DB
and used for ET search.
Bob Bankay is finishing a program that will transfer the
SETI@home user DB (users, teams, profiles) to a new BOINC DB.
Gary Gibson is working on Windows GUI bugs.
We are working very hard to have all this done by the end of the year.
I'm not sure if we'll make it, but that's the goal at this point.
The efforts of all beta testers are essential to BOINC/SETI@home;
thank you, and keep it up!
David
PS: Any C++ or PHP programmers out there? Take a look at
our source code and our task list; if you are interested in
working on something, let me know."
Some other versions is also out, and hopefully they've fixed the Ultra-Sparc-turbo-bug...
More detailed info, by David Anderson:
"We released the 2.14 core client for Windows. The only change
is that we fixed a bug that prevented the client from
working through Norton Personal Firewall.
We are releasing new versions of the SETI@home and AP applications
for various platforms, including Solaris and Windows.
There have been problems on Solaris involving shared libraries.
The new versions are statically linked, which fixes this
(although the executables are much bigger).
We're keeping a close eye on incoming results to make sure
all versions are working correctly.
There have been lots of changes (hopefully improvements) in
the message boards and Q/A areas.
Our goal is for the Q/A area to be a self-updating FAQ.
Users (in most cases) find their question in a pre-existing list,
and find the answer there, rather than posting a new message.
This will be important when the user base expands to ~1M.
The need for this functionality (among other) is why we implemented
our own BBS instead of using PHPBB or similar."
Beta-test-status:
"The beta test has been and continues to be critically important
to getting BOINC and the SETI/BOINC applications ready for launch.
I realize that sometimes it takes a long time for us to fix bugs,
and this can be frustrating for beta testers,
but we've made substantial progress.
Part of the problem has been optimizing the flow of information
from beta-testers to our programmers.
Jens and other volunteers have been a huge help by reading
and summarizing bug reports for us;
hopefully the Q/A area will help also.
The testing of the original SETI@home took about 8 months,
and BOINC is significantly more complex (and powerful),
so it's not unexpected that things are taking so long.
A lot of behind-the-scenes work is going on here;
Eric Korpela and Jeff Cobb are currently testing
"splitter" and "assimilator" programs for SETI@home/BOINC
so that soon you'll be analyzing new data,
and the results will get recorded in our science DB
and used for ET search.
Bob Bankay is finishing a program that will transfer the
SETI@home user DB (users, teams, profiles) to a new BOINC DB.
Gary Gibson is working on Windows GUI bugs.
We are working very hard to have all this done by the end of the year.
I'm not sure if we'll make it, but that's the goal at this point.
The efforts of all beta testers are essential to BOINC/SETI@home;
thank you, and keep it up!
David
PS: Any C++ or PHP programmers out there? Take a look at
our source code and our task list; if you are interested in
working on something, let me know."
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