Development news archive:

Presented in chronological order.

2000.03.31: The v2.04 of the Windows and Mac GUI clients released. Info...
2000.07.05: Public beta testing for the SETI@home client v3.0 is beginning with v2.66 for Windows/Mac GUI and Solaris CL clients.
2000.07.17: Beta for windows, version 2.70. Fixes the very slow processing of the v2.66 beta.
2000.08.04: Beta v2.71 is released. Besides fixing some bugs, the client now looks for signals at chirp rates ranging from -50 Hz/sec up to +50 Hz/sec.
2000.08.23: Beta v2.73 is released. S@h: "Before we release version 3.0, we want to make sure there are no major problems. Smaller issues will be dealt with in later versions (3.0x)". Eric Heien: "...if all goes well with that version, 3.0 should be out a week or two after that."
2000.08.29: Beta v2.74 is released, available for Windows / Mac / Solaris / SCO Sys V5 Unixware 7 / SCO 3.2v5.0.x / PC Linux GNU GNUlibc 2.1 based computers. S@h: "With 2.73, we added some additional code that improved the accuracy of computation. Unfortunately, this also accidently introduced a memory leak. 2.74 should fix this, as well as finally fixing the problem with the progress ending significantly before 100%."
2000.09.19: Beta v2.76 is released for Windows, Mac and Solaris. S@h: "There isn't much difference between 2.74 and 2.76, except for some science tweaking (adjusting thresholds so the result files didn't fill up with too much garbage) and some small bug fixes which were mostly cosmetic. ... At any rate, we felt enough has changed to warrant one final beta. If everything is working as expected, then this exact version will be renamed 3.0 and released to the public."
2000.09.29: The rollout of the new v3 client has begun; first two released.
2000.10.01: Third v3 client released (Linux).
2000.10.03: Fourth v3 client released and the Win and Mac GUI clients.
2000.10.04: Five more clients released.
2000.10.08: More, more, more... plus the Win CLI client. Info...
2000.11.06: Uh-oh, troubles with the v3 WinGUI client. It has been removed from the download pages.
2000.11.15: Beta 3.01 bugfix of the SETI@home WinGUI client. Includes code for a new server that will help with retiring ancient clients (1.x - 3.00).
2000.11.27: Beta 3.02 bugfix of the SETI@home WinGUI client. Fixes display problems and the malfunctioning of the overflow trigger for pulses/triplets.
2000.12.11: Four v3.03 SETI@home clients released to the beta-testers. It's 3.02 with some final tweaking.
2000.12.13: All v3.03 SETI@home clients released to the public. Info...
2001.01.12: Upgrade warnings are sent. All pre v3.03 clients removed from the download sites.
2001.02.01: SETI@home version 3.03 mandatory for all supported platforms. Earlier versions unable to contact the Berkeley server. Results from older clients rejected.
2001.03.28: Two new v3.03 clients available ('i386-pc-bsdi4.1' and 'sparc-unknown-linux-gnu').
2001.04.07: Client for MacOS-X released.
2001.07.17: V3.05 client for MacOS-X officially released.
2001.11.12: The SETI@home client setiathome-3.03.ia64-Linux-gnu.tar is made.
2002.03.01: V3.06 of the screensaver client for Windows is released. Info...
2002.03.12: A v3.07 bugfix of the screensaver client for Windows is released. Info...
2002.04.04: New v3.07 client for MacOS-X released.
2003.04.04: SETI@home client software update. They call the new v3.08 a "precautionary security release". Info...

Impressions of the beta stage of the v3 SETI@home client are archived here...

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