staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2012-01-27

New v2.9110.519 clients released

Filed under: clients — bovine @ 07:19 +00:00

The following clients have been promoted to the list of officially released clients:

Solaris/SunOS [x86] v2.9110.519
OpenBSD [x86/ELF] v2.9110.519
OpenBSD [AMD64/ELF] v2.9110.519
FreeBSD [8.x/x86] v2.9110.519
FreeBSD [7.x/x86/ELF] v2.9110.519
FreeBSD [6.x/x86/ELF] v2.9110.519
Linux [AMD64/Stream] v2.9110.519
Linux [CellBE] v2.9110.519
Linux [ARM/eabi] v2.9110.519
Linux [x86/ELF/uclibc] v2.9110.519
Linux [AMD64/ELF] v2.9110.519b
Windows 64bit [AMD64] v2.9110.519b
Windows 32bit [x86/Zipped] v2.9110.519b
Windows 32bit [x86/CUDA-3.1] v2.9110.519b

They can be downloaded from http://www.distributed.net/Download_clients

The list of functional changes is at http://http.distributed.net/pub/dcti/current-client/CHANGES.txt

2012-01-26

[resolved] statsbox maintenance

Filed under: stats — bovine @ 04:30 +00:00

We’ve taken statsbox temporarily offline for some minor system updates. It should be back online before the next statsrun. As usual, there will be no impact to stats or our proxy network during this downtime.

UPDATE: It is back online now and no problems were encountered during the maintenance.

2012-01-25

[resolved] Unplanned webserver outage

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 02:45 +00:00

We have just recovered from some unplanned outage of our main webserver that hosts www.distributed.net, blogs.distributed.net, bugs.distributed.net, and some of our other web interfaces. During this time our stats server and our keyserver network remained available and uninterrupted. We’re still investigating the cause, but we hope to minimize the impact of such problems in the future.