Thread 'BOINC client 8.2.1 ready for testing'

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Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15648	Message 115960 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 7:24:17 UTC David Anderson wrote: Great news! A new version of the BOINC client is ready to test. The release notes are here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes The major new feature is support for Docker apps. Docker is a 'container' technology: sort of like virtual machines, but more efficient and easy to use. We think that Docker is the future of BOINC. The 8.2.1 client detects Docker (or its open-source variant, Podman) and reports it to projects. Currently two projects have Docker apps: LHC@home and BOINC Central. Eventually we plan to offer Podman in the BOINC installer, but for now you have to install it yourself. This is easy to do; instructions are here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Installing-Docker As usual, report test results here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php Thanks for your help! -- David https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php ID: 115960 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15648	Message 115961 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 7:25:45 UTC - in response to Message 115960. Dear Alpha testers: We don't have any test results for 8.2.1 so far. Please test it, and report results on the BOINC Alpha site: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php Remember: we need positive test results, not just bug reports; otherwise we can't be sure that things are working on a wide range of computers. Thanks -- David and Vitalii ID: 115961 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2892	Message 115962 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 9:31:17 UTC - in response to Message 115961. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php Asks me to log in which Firefox attempts to do with my login from here. I then get a message saying no account exists with my email. ID: 115962 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2892	Message 115963 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 9:46:44 UTC - in response to Message 115962. If you are going to install using Snap, it is best to uninstall using apt first. ID: 115963 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15648	Message 115964 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 10:11:52 UTC - in response to Message 115962. The login form uses, as far as I know, the same login as the old alpha site. If you never had one, you can ask David Anderson to make you an account, emailing him via boinc_alpha@ssl.berkeley.edu ID: 115964 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2892	Message 115965 - Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 11:53:11 UTC - in response to Message 115964. Thanks Jord. I am currently wrestling with getting Podman and WSL to work in my Windows installation which is in a VM. I have read it is possible but till I manage it I will stick to testing on my normal projects. ID: 115965 · Reply Quote

mobluse Send message Joined: 22 Apr 20 Posts: 7	Message 116180 - Posted: 30 May 2025, 20:37:40 UTC I installed on Debian Bookworm according to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php?os_num=3&build=alpha but since I have an arm64 i.e. Raspberry Pi 4 B 4 GB it doesn't install the latest, but instead install the one built-in in the distribution: http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 boinc-client arm64 7.20.5+dfsg-1.1 [458 kB] During `sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager` I get: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' as repository 'https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/bookworm bookworm InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'arm64' If you would make an arm64 alpha version I would get it on next upgrade. ID: 116180 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2892	Message 116182 - Posted: 31 May 2025, 7:02:06 UTC - in response to Message 115961. We don't have any test results for 8.2.1 so far. I will email David again about setting up an account. If he replied, I must somehow have missed it. ID: 116182 · Reply Quote

JLDun Send message Joined: 19 Feb 16 Posts: 109	Message 116197 - Posted: 5 Jun 2025, 6:36:43 UTC Last modified: 5 Jun 2025, 6:41:29 UTC I'm not part of the Alpha set, but I can confirm that the Android version of 8.2.1 allows attach, detach, download/running/returning of tasks, and aborting tasks. The only thing is on one of my devices, it ended up downloading a bunch of Asteroids tasks that I'm unsure it will complete it time (for all of them), but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with one of the settings I had set before I downloaded those tasks. (It involved something to the effect of 'download 8 cores, 3 days' worth of work on a device that usually runs 4 cores, and both Asteroids and Einstein.) EDIT: And it works on an Android 11 TV, an Android 9 phone, three different Android 12 phone models, and an Android 15 tablet. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/ ID: 116197 · Reply Quote

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