Name: BOINC
Author: Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley

BOINC

Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley · UCBerkeley.BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe. About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

winget install --id UCBerkeley.BOINC --exact --source winget

Latest 8.2.9

Release Notes

What's Changed

[ci] add opensuse 16.0 to the stable release list by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6696
client, docker_wrapper (Win): run Podman commands as root by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6705
client, Android: clarify message by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6714
add comment about suspend strings by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6715
Skip WSL discovery and fix logging for BOINC running as service by @AufarZakiev in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6720
client: don't complain about projects/virtualbox; we created it by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6722
[snap] add arm64 build by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6723
Mac: update ReadMe to reflect new location of BOINCManager.app by @CharlieFenton in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6728
[linux] update custom gdk-pixbuf vcpkg port by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6731
client: improve Docker-related messages by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6734
Mac: If Manager is hidden on system light / dark mode switch, don't unhide it by @CharlieFenton in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6737
Client: use 'abort' rather than 'quit' when appropriate by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6736
Mac: Hide users boinc_master & boinc_project from System Events, login screen, Finder by @CharlieFenton in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6753
Add Fedora 43 linux package by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6758
Client, Manager: fix wrong suspend reason messages in Manager by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6763
Client: fix Docker issues by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6757
client: fill in resource usage if not specified by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6800
client: allow projects to change resource usage of app versions by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6807
Fix incorrect links in the linux package installer scripts. by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6808
client: fix crashing bug by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6825
client: need -f arg for docker rm container on cleanup by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6826
Mac Add utility app to remove Podman by @CharlieFenton in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6851
client: restore get_screensaver_tasks() RPC, which I mistakenly removed by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6869
BUDA: allow output files to be gzipped. by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6876
client: add config option by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6877
Increase timer_thread stack limit from 32KiB to 64KiB by @vient in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6884
include wslinfo only on windows by @ahorek in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6885
Fix duplicate running manager instance checker on Linux by @AenBleidd in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6893
client (Win) and scheduler: don't use Vbox if Docker is present by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6895
client (Win): including WSL disk image in BOINC disk usage by @davidpanderson in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6896 New Contributors
@vient made their first contribution in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/6884 Full Changelog: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/compare/client_release/8.2/8.2.8...client_release/8.2/8.2.9

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Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
License: LGPL-3.0-or-later
Publisher: Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley
Support: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues
Copyright: (C) 2003-2026 University of California, Berkeley. All rights reserved.

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BOINC

Latest 8.2.9

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