Software Update: Boinc 5.2.8

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is a platform written for distributed computing and available for Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and Windows. A number of large distributed computing projects use this platform, such as Rosetta@home, SETI@home and ClimatePrediction.net. For more information about the how and what of Boinc, we refer you to this page. The developers have released a new client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows with 5.2.8 as the version number. The following list of modifications is present:

Changes since 5.2.7:

• Localization updates.
• Resolve many connection issues regarding passwords.
• Mac: Fix a screensaver stutter while scrolling text.

Changes since 5.2.6:

• Localization updates.
• Usability enhancements.
• Fix a crash condition when connecting to a remote machine.
• Fix for file handle usage on Linux/Mac which caused BOINC to run out of file handles.

[break]Boinc 5.2.8 is available in the following three flavors:
Linux i686 – self-extracting archive
Mac OS X – standard GUI
Windows installer