Release Notes

Introduction

The BOINC development community is pleased to announce a new server release.
These release notes provide an overview of the new features, bugs fixed and any known issues.
The new features included in this release are:

• GDPR support
• Simple Attach mechanism.
  GDPR is now supported by:
• Consent policies - Project administrators can configure consent policies to which users may agree. Consent can be given and withdrawn by users. By default, projects are configured with Enrollment and Statistics Export consent types; which may be enabled in the project ops page.
• Terms of use - The project Web site displays terms-of-use for users to agree to. The BOINC manager should also display the same terms-of-use.
• Delete user - Users may delete their accounts. Projects may choose between delete types: soft-delete, hard-delete, or a project-defined delete.
• While not directly GDPR related, projects can now notify users more securely when they change email addresses. A notification will be sent to both the old and new emails. Users may revert the email change if they suspect malicious behavior. Additionally, users may not delete their accounts until 7 days after an email change.
  For more details, please see the GDPR compliance page.
  The simple attach mechanism simplifies the join-up process for Windows users. In summary, the new-user process is:
• Visit the project or account manager Web site and click on Join.
• Enter email/password, click OK
• Click Download
• Click on the installer, choose defaults
  The improvements are that the user doesn't leave the project Web site (i.e. doesn't land on BOINC Web site) and also the user doesn't have to select the project from a a list of all projects. Further details, including how to configure this for a project, can be found in the Simple Attach documentation.

Bugs Fixed

• Error in db/schema.sql
• Move to stronger password hash
• Email Change Notification
• Improve password security
• EU-GDPR - Right to Erasure
• script_validator segfault
• Upgrading from PHP 5 to PHP 7
• db_dump is inefficient
• Batches Failing To Be Retired
• Scalability of query batches RPC
• Streamline register/install process
• Team import partially broken
  Please see the git comparison with v0.9 for the details.

Known issues

None at this time.

Download

The server release can be obtained with the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.git
cd boinc
git checkout tags/server_release/1.0/1.0.3 -b server_release/1.0

The code can then be built as described in the documentation.

./_autosetup
./configure --disable-client --disable-manager
make

Install

To setup a new BOINC server, please follow the guide. If you are new to BOINC please ensure to review the Technical Documentation first.

Upgrade

An existing BOINC server can be upgraded with the upgrade tool.