Version 8.2.8 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS reports 8.2.7 to project servers #6707
Description
Describe the bug
I have upgraded an Oracle cloud host from version 8.2.7 to 8.2.8 but it reports 8.2.7 to BOINC project servers.
ubuntu@instance-20230328-2320:~$ sudo apt show boinc-client
Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.2.8-3429
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Name: boinc-client
Download-Size: 2975 kB
APT-Sources: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: 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.N: There are 5 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
ubuntu@instance-20230328-2320:~$
Using the '-a' switch shows old client versions that have not been a problem so far:
ubuntu@instance-20230328-2320:~$ sudo apt show boinc-client -a
Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.2.8-3429
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Name: boinc-client
Download-Size: 2975 kB
APT-Sources: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: 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.Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.2.7-3348
Status: install ok installed
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Name: boinc-client
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Download-Size: unknown
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: 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.Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.2.6-3214
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Name: boinc-client
Download-Size: 2968 kB
APT-Sources: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: 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.Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.2.4-2448
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Name: boinc-client
Download-Size: 2859 kB
APT-Sources: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: 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.Package: boinc-client
Version: 8.0.2-715
Maintainer: Vitalii Koshura [email protected]
Installed-Size: unknown
Depends: libc6, libxss1 (>= 1.2.3), ca-certificates
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Name: boinc-client
Download-Size: 2671 kB
APT-Sources: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble/main amd64 Packages
Description: 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.Package: boinc-client
Version: 7.24.1+dfsg-4build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Source: boinc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1460 kB
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, python3:any, libboinc7t64 (= 7.24.1+dfsg-4build1), libc6 (>= 2.38), libcurl4t64 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libx11-6, libxss1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, ca-certificates, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Suggests: boinc-manager, boinc-client-opencl, boinc-client-nvidia-cuda, x11-xserver-utils
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Download-Size: 506 kB
APT-Sources: http://ca-toronto-1-ad-1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a
software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of
various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of
desktop computers. The developers' web site at the University of
Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run
projects.
.
This package contains the BOINC core client program that is required
to participate in any project that uses BOINC. A central server
distributes work units and collects results via this client. When
attaching a local machine to a project, this client will also
dynamically download the scientific data and executables to be then
wrapped by the BOINC core client.
This is the 8.2.8 host on BOINC Central reporting version 8.2.7:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/show_host_detail.php?hostid=37757
Owner ProfileContactTop 25% in average credit
Created 3 Aug 2025, 21:04:27 UTC
Total credit 8,891
Average credit 49.06
Cross project credit BOINCstats.com Free-DC
CPU type AuthenticAMD
AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 1 Stepping 2]
Number of cores 2
Coprocessors ---
Virtualization ---
Docker Podman version 4.9.3
Operating System Linux Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS [6.14.0-1017-oracle|libc 2.39]
BOINC version 8.2.7
Memory 0.93 GB
Cache 512 KB
Measured floating point speed 0.57 billion ops/sec
Measured integer speed 2.34 billion ops/sec
Average upload rate 481.24 MB/sec
Average download rate 5.97 MB/sec
Average turnaround time 0.38 days
Application details Show
Tasks 93
Low turnaround time? no
Number of times client has contacted server 166
Last contact 28 Nov 20255
Steps to reproduce
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnupg2 curl
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble/boinc.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg
sudo echo deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/stable/noble noble main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boinc.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
Expected behavior
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Screenshots
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System information
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.14.0-1017-oracle x86_64)
BOINC Version 8.2.8
Additional context
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