Folding@home Client Changelog

v8.4.10

Small improvements to Windows shutdown handling.

v8.4.9

Recommend nvidia-opencl-icd package on Debian install. #293
Attempt graceful shutdown of client in Windows installer. #290

v8.4.8

Delay Windows shutdown until F@H has shutdown gracefully. #290
Fix crashing on Windows. re: #278
Use all DNS servers. #304

v8.4.7

Pause group after 5 consecutive lost WUs. #305
Ensure WU is saved to DB in case shutdown Windows kills the process. #290

v8.4.6

Attempt more graceful shutdown in Windows.
Increase clock skew detection threshold from 15s to 5m.
Fix call to open Web Control URL on startup.
Require polkitd-pkla on Debian.
Handle CORE_RESTART return code correctly.
Fix data dir permissions in Windows.

v8.4.5

Don't allow invalid machine name option. #282
Track WU end state.
Clear WU retry count after WU has run successfully for some time.
Set WU final WU progress correctly.

v8.4.4

Acquire client DB lock on startup. #269
Added fahctl command line client control script. #119
Added package dependency on libexpat. #266
Ignore exit code of killed or crashed cores.
Delay next WU after failure.
Log error if core does not produce any log output.

v8.4.3

Start Linux client after DNS service. (Marcos Mello)

v8.4.2

Fixed DNS bug. #257
Reduced ETA updates.
Prevent negative ETA.

v8.4.1

Log machine and group pause, fold, finish changes.

v8.4.0

Don't add client install path to PATH when running cores on Windows.
Added disable CUDA option.
Added system HTTP proxy support. No config necessary.
Automatically set machine from account settings.

v8.3.18

Windows installer fixes.

v8.3.17

Fixes for account (un)linking and node changes.
Fix for repeated "No active" exception.

v8.3.16

Fix Linux battery detection. #240

v8.3.15

Fix crash caused by failed DNS server. #235
Improved Linux battery detection. #240

v8.3.14

Fix Windows crash. #235

v8.3.13

Fix for log updates to Web Control.

v8.3.12

Fix Windows and macOS crashing.
Removed PDB file from Windows release mode installer.

v8.3.11

Use LogTracker to follow log instead of reading back files.
Fixed core log following on macOS. #234
Fix Windows crash. #235
Fix Windows log rotation. #233

v8.3.10

Logging bug fixes.

v8.3.9

Fixed 'wu' not found error. #231, #232
Other bug fixes.

v8.3.7

Better DNS error handling and support for IPv6 name servers

v8.3.6

Generate new client ID if machine ID has changed. #216
Rewrite of domain name lookup code. #223

v8.3.5

Fix AMD GPU detection. #137
Add Lithuania macOS installer translation (muziqaz)
Fix for Windows battery status detection. #139
Fix for pause on battery.

v8.3.4

Beta release

v8.3.3

Fixed start failure on Windows #210

v8.3.2

Added folding on battery option
Added keep awake option
Show correct count for systems with more than 64 logical CPUs on Windows.
Fix remote monitoring of log after log rotation.
Redirect old v7 Web Control
MacOS installer updates (kbernhagen)
Debian installer updates (mmello)

v8.3.1

Updated copyrights.

v8.3.0

Return of resource groups
Separate fold/pause buttons in Windows sys-tray
Fixed saving of local account config
Log dump record to correct directory
Fixed SSL error, cannot find SHA-256.
Fixed node broadcast messages.
'Paused by user' -> 'Paused'
Provide full OS version in info
Set default 'cpus' closes #180

v8.2.4

Organize credit logs by year/month. #59 (Kevin Bernhagen)
RPM build config. (Marcos Mello, Kevin Bernhagen)
Debian package improvements. (Marcos Mello, Kevin Bernhagen)

v8.2.3

Potential fix for account link/unlink getting stuck.
Linux build uses older glibc for wider compatibility.

v8.2.2

Windows: Fixed fail to start from installer or desktop icon.
Windows: Fixed "vector subscript out of range" crash.
Debian: Remove old systemd unit file if it exists.

v8.2.1

Folding@home account login.
Remote access to machines via account and fah-node.
Removed resource groups feature.
Removed peers feature. Replaced by fah-node access.
Added GPU specific beta mode and project key.
Improved Debian package.
Improved GPU detection.
Don't automatically reserve a CPU for each GPU

v8.1.19

Close remote connection on Websocket close.

v8.1.18

Added keep alive message to Websocket.

v8.1.17

Fix GPU resource avaialble check. #135
Don't show 1B of 1B for completed up/download size. #130
Only reset retry count if WU has run for more than 5 minutes. #134

v8.1.16

Fix core download retry logic.
Only add client executable directory to lib path on Windows.
Retry WU if core crashes. #127
Fix CPU allocation when there are more GPUs than CPUs. #129
Don't reserve a CPU for each disabled GPUs.

v8.1.15

Fix CUDA/OpenCL driver mixup from v8.1.14.
Improved OpenCL PCI info detection.

v8.1.14

Print down/upload sizes in progress log. #113
Show user and team on WU request log line.
Show GPU PCI device/vendor and cuda/opencl support in log.
Add fah-client user to groups video and render on Linux. #121
Close log file before rotation to avoid problems on Windows. #120
Show unsupported GPUs.
Improved GPU detection.

v8.1.13

Handle cores with .exe ending in Windows.

v8.1.12

Rotate logs daily. #92
Keep up to 90 old logs by default.
Add fah-client.service to Linux tar.bz2 distribution.
Fix CPU reallocation bug during GPU WU assignment. #106

v8.1.11

Added end screen to macOS install. (Kevin Bernhagen)
Prevent install on macOS if Safari is the only browser. (Kevin Bernhagen)
Fixed Windows systray pause. #96
Pause client and prompt user if no user settings and not fold-anon. #32

v8.1.10

Fixed copyright and version display in Windows about screen. #94
Fixed bug in Windows/macOS networking timeout code. #78

v8.1.9

Delay AS DNS lookup to avoid startup problems with no network. #84

v8.1.8

Get a new assignment after HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.
Removal of old logs fixed. (Kevin Bernhagen)
Fixed network timeout error in Windows and macOS. #78
Retry WS assignment indefinately until WU paused. #79
Retry WU upload or dump up to 50 times.
Enable Linux service start on boot at install time. #81 (Kevin Bernhagen)

v8.1.7

Fixed client ID generation.
Thread safe Windows event loop. Fixes NULL pointer exception. #74
Fix assignment data corruption which causes HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE error.
Fix problem with WUs moving to root resource group after restart. #68
Fix some bugs related to removing resource groups.

v8.1.6

Fixed a memory leak in Linux builds.
Fixes for on idle handling.
Window installer improvements. (Jeff Moreland)
Fixes for on idle for OSX. (Kevin Bernhagen)
Force usage of older GLibC to allow Linux binaries to run on older systems.
Prevent RGs from loading new WUs before GPU detection is complete.

v8.1.5

Fix data folder selection in Window installer. (Jeff Moreland)

v8.1.4

Fix "Finish" handling.
Stop wait timers on pause.
Use v7 settings in Windows install for all users. #45 (Jeff Moreland)
Windows installer translations. #48 (Jeff Moreland)
Don't delete other files on Windows uninstall. (Jeff Moreland)
Other Windows installer improvements. (Jeff Moreland)
Added resource groups feature. (Similar to slots in v7)

v8.1.3

Load team and other numerical options from old config.xml correctly.
Fix for failing core downloads.
Fix for Windows install for all users.
Try CS if upload to WS fails.
Fixed WU stall after dns lookup failure.
Adjust CPU allocation rather than request new WU.

v8.1.2

Fix Windows CPU features reporting.
Report CPU family, model and stepping to AS.

v8.1.0

Front-end API changes.
Bug fixes
AS API changes.

v8.0.0

Rewrite