BOINC core client v2.19 released.

[Rattledagger]

The latest news from beta-land is these.

We released the 2.18 core client for all platforms today.

All beta testers are urged to upgrade to this new version,
especially the linux and solaris users, since all platforms
are now up-to-date.

The windows release includes the fix for the v2.17 bug which
caused user preferences to be ignored when the "Run based on
preferences" option was selected.

Gary Gibson

Assertion failure in 2.18 Win core client

- The problem will go away if you create a directory C:\temp
- We'll make a 2.19 release later today that will fix it
- Here's the problem: this is the first release compiled
with VC++ 7.0.
There's some old debugging code that looks like this:
#ifdef DEBUG
fout = fopen("c:/temp/core.txt", "w");
fprintf(fout, "starting\n");
fflush(fout);
#endif
The project file defines the preprocessor symbol _DEBUG.
In VC 6.0 the debugging code is not compiled.
In VC 7.0 it is - apparently the symbols _DEBUG and DEBUG
are considered equivalent for some reason.

-- David (Anderson)

core client version 2.19 for Windows released

...it fixes the Assertion Failure crash in 2.18
David" (Anderson)

The next currently unreleased version, should appart for bug-fixes and a new screensaver that works on multi-monitor,
"enable core client to run as Windows service" 😎

Also looks like next version will use TRACE instead of fprintfs for debug-output...