<?
$project_news = array(
    array("June 23, 2004",
        "The SETI@home/BOINC public project has been launched.
        Its URL is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu.
        Thanks to all BOINC Beta Test participants!"
    ),
    array("June 19, 2004",
        "We have just released BOINC CC 3.18 to Beta,
        please upgrade as soon as possible."
    ),
    array("June 17, 2004",
        "We have just released BOINC CC 3.10 to Alpha.
        We plan on releasing it to beta in the next couple of days.
        For those concerned about the Public vs. Beta issue,
        be where you want to be.
        We would prefer both actually.
        Just remember, stats may be reset at any time on both projects."
    ),
    array("June 10, 2004",
        "Some form of database corruption has occurred in the results table.  
        The database is currently running a repair operation.
        We do not know how long it will take to complete at this time.
        The database returned to normal operation at 8pm or so."
    ),
    array("June 7, 2004",
        "The URL of the Beta Test project is now
        http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap,
        The old 'maggie' URL won't work anymore.
        If you're seeing 'can't contact scheduler' messages,
        please switch to the new URL by detaching from the project,
        then attaching to the above URL
        using your original account ID."
    ),
    array("June 1, 2004",
        "3.07 CC and 3.07 SAH have been released to Beta for all platforms.<BR>
        <b>NOTE:</b> All clients on all platforms should re-benchmark their machines.  The
        minimum core version has been set to 3.07, if your core client version number is
        older than that you'll not be assigned any work."
    ),
    array("May 21, 2004",
        "3.05 CC and 3.05 SAH have been released to Beta for
        all platforms.<BR>
        <b>NOTE:</b> This is the first release where the Windows build is a release build.
        3.06 will be switched back to a debug build as the SAH developers think they can
        track down a few more issues before the public launch. You'll have some more release
        builds to play around with before public launch."
    ),
    array("May 19, 2004",
        "3.04 CC and 3.03 SAH have been released to Beta for
        all platforms."
    ),
    array("May 17, 2004",
        "We had a scheduled outage for about four hours this morning
        for hardware upgrades.
        This web site and all BOINC servers are all back on line."
    ),
    array("April 30, 2004",
        "See an interview with BOINC director David Anderson
        on CERN's <a href=http://gridcafe.org>Grid Cafe</a>."
    ),
    array("April 27, 2004",
        "3.x has been released to Beta.
        We are aware of the problems running the CC and SAH apps
        on a Mac 10.2 machine and that issue is being worked on.
        The SAH application had taken a few bug fixes that required the deployment happen sooner
        rather than later so the SAH team could continue to track down and fix the issues.  The failure
        rates for the SAH application in Alpha are about half of that in Beta."
    ),
    array("April 14, 2004",
        "We added a mechanism for caching frequently-accessed web pages
        and restored the top users/hosts/teams pages using this mechanism."
    ),
    array("April 8, 2004",
        "We fixed a server bug that caused
        the last result from each group of three
        to not get any credit about half the time."
    ),
    array("April 7, 2004",
        "SAH 2.32 has been released for all platforms.<br>
        This should fix the issue where there was a 0xc0000005 or SegFault during a checkpoint operation."
    ),
    array("April 7, 2004",
        "The SAH Splitter is having problems creating work-units.
        We are investigating, you can go <a href=http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/forum/thread.php?id=2804>here</a> for more information."
    ),
    array("April 3, 2004",
        "We fixed a bug that caused the same result
        to get sent to multiple hosts."
    ),
    array("April 3, 2004",
        "The next version of SETI@home will have a new graphical feature:
        when viewing in a window,
        you can use the mouse to rotate and zoom 3D objects."
    ),
    array("March 27, 2004",
        "SAH 2.31 for Windows has been released."
    ),
    array("March 24, 2004",
        "SAH 2.29 for Windows has been released.
        <b>NOTE:</b> If you suffered from a corrupted glut32.dll you'll need to 
        reset the project in order to pick up the uncorrupted version."
    ),
    array("March 22, 2004",
        "All core clients and SAH applications have been upgraded.<br>
        <b>NOTE:</b> The minimum core client version has been set to 2.28.
        You'll need to upgrade to the latest client to receive work."
    ),
    array("March 6, 2004",
        "We've created a BOINC Alpha Test project:
        http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/boinc_alpha.
        The purpose of this project is to provide a better level of quality
        assurance by running the software on more machines than we have
        in our lab."
    ),
    array("February 24, 2004",
    	"Released SETI Windows application version 2.25.
        This release includes a fix for the fail 128 problem."
    ),
    array("February 11, 2004",
        "Released SETI Windows application version 2.24.
        Fixes included in this release are result overflow detection
        (overflow results no longer get returned as an error)
        and code to prevent assert failures in pulse reporting."
    ),
    array("February 4, 2004",
        "Release BOINC core client version 2.25 for Windows.
        Works with HTTP proxies again.
        Fixes a crash after scheduler RPC."
    ),
    array("February 4, 2004",
        "Released BOINC core client version 2.24 for Windows.
        Fix bug where first result after project reset fails.
        Only ask for work when client has none (temporary fix).
        Fix crash in garbage-collect on project reset.
        Fix screensaver crash due to missing function on
        older Windows."
    ),
    array("February 4, 2004",
        "Released SETI Windows application version 2.23.
        This includes a better mechanism to catch assert failures.
        Such failures now result in stack traces going to stderr
        with no popup dialog box.
        In order to facilitate debugging, the 
        symbol file (.pdb) is now downloaded with the application.
        This means a much bigger app download but gives us an automatic 
        stack trace with every crash."
    ),
    array("February 3, 2004",
        "XML statistics files are now organized in a way that lets
        you find a user, host or team based on its ID."
    ),
    array("February 1, 2004",
        "The anonymous platform mechanism
        (which allows you to run BOINC on any platform,
        not just the ones we support) is now available.
        Info is <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/anonymous_platform.php>here</a>."
    ),
    array("January 30, 2004",
        "Released SETI Windows application version 2.22 to fix
        a stackwalker problem and to adjust the progress bar.
        There will be additional changes to progress calculation
        soon."
    ),
    array("January 28, 2004",
        "Released SETI Windows application version 2.21.  The goal
        of this release was to fix bugs that were causing access
        violations (0xc0000005).
        <br><br>
        This release also includes stackwalker, which should give
        us automatic stack traces in event of app failures.  If you
        would like to enable this feature, please <a href=http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/debug.php>download the debugging file</a> for this release.
        <br><br>
        The problem with the progress bar and time to complete calculation
        remains and should be fixed soon.  In the meantime ignore the To
        Completion value on the BOINC GUI.  Also note that even when the
        progress bar in not moving the computation is proceeding."
    ),
    array("January 23, 2004",
        "Released seti Windows application version 2.20.  This should
        fix a dynamic link problem whereby the application
        was exiting immediately with a code 128.  
        <br><br>
        There is a known
        problem with the progress calculation which makes the 
        estimated time to complete very inflated at the start of a
        workunit.  We are fixing this.  However in the meantime
        we have also turned on bounds checking in the Windows application
        to help chase down access violations.  The unfortunate side
        effect of this is to make the progress problem appear worse."
    ),
    array("January 17, 2004",
        "Released core client version 2.19 for Windows.
        Fixes a bug that results either in a crash
        or a large debugging file in C:/temp/core.txt.
        All Windows users should upgrade (and delete the file)."
    ),
    array("January 16, 2004",
        "Released core client version 2.18 for all platforms.
        All users should upgrade as soon as possible."
    ),
    array("January 9, 2004",
        "Released version 2.17 of the core client for Mac OS X.
        Released version 2.18 of the SETI@home application for Mac OS X.
        These new versions support both OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x.
        All Mac users are urged to upgrade to the new core client
        at their earliest convenience."
    ),
    array("January 7, 2004",
        "The SETI@home 'assimilator' is now running!
        Results are being recorded in SETI@home's science database,
        and will be used to find candidate signals."
    ),
    array("January 7, 2004",
        "<a href=http://www.svbizink.com/headlines/article.asp?aid=5289&iid=333>An article</a>
        about Sun's support for BOINC and SETI@home."
    ),
    array("December 31, 2003",
        "Recent fixes: display bugs in Win GUI;
        problems in Win installer script;
        informative system tray icons;
        premature requests for more work;
        bad average credit calculation.
        Added keyword search of user profiles, names."
    ),
    array("December 9, 2003",
        "Released version 2.14 of the core client for Windows
        (fixes Norton Firewall bug).
        Added text search in message boards.
        New statically-linked core client and SETI@home application (2.12)
        for Solaris 2.7.
        Released core client and SETI@home app for Mac OS X."
    ),
    array("December 4, 2003",
        "Released version 2.13 of the core client.
        Web site user page now displays pending credit.
        HTML allowed in user-supplied text."
    ),
    array("November 28 2003",
        "Network bandwidth limits (in the General Preferences interface)
        are now expressed in terms of Kbytes/sec rather than bytes/sec.
        Some people entered small values here
        because of confusion about the units
        and experienced very slow downloads."
    ),
    array("November 27 2003",
        "The source code of the SETI@home application is
        <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/seti_source/>available for download</a>."
    ),
    array("November 26 2003",
        "Version 2.12 of the core client released for Windows.
        Fixes installer bugs in 2.11."
    ),
    array("November 26 2003",
        "Versions 2.11 of the core client released for all platforms.
        The new version may fix a bug that causes CPU time to
        go to zero on system restart.
        XML stats files now properly escape &lt;, &gt; &apos;, &quot, &amp;
        characters in user-supplied text."
    )
);

?>
