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</head><body><header><div class="container"><h1>Vitalii Koshura: Maintaining BOINC / BOINC Development Status Report: January 2025</h1></div></header><div class="container"><aside id="menu"><ul id="menu_items"><li><a href = 'index.html'>Home</a></li><li><a href = 'blog.html'>Blog</a></li><li><a href = 'tutorials.html'>Tutorials</a></li></ul></aside><section id="main_content"><div id="blog_post_single"><h3>A New Year, A New BOINC Release Plan</h3>
<p>The start of 2025 brought an important question: when will the next BOINC release be ready? For over six months, we had been planning version 8.0.5 — a bugfix update with critical improvements. Just as we were about to launch, we hit an unexpected roadblock: an expired license key (which I’ve discussed in a <a href="2025.01.01.html">previous post</a>).</p>
<p>This delay led to a buildup of numerous updates — many of them significant improvements — making a simple bugfix release increasingly impractical. On top of that, switching to a new Windows installer, a major structural change, further complicated things. Attempting to isolate only bugfixes would have meant delaying several exciting new features that had been developed in the meantime.</p>
<p>Given this, we’ve decided to skip the 8.0.5 release and move directly to version 8.2.0. This update will introduce a host of enhancements, including preliminary support for <a href="2024.12.01.html">Docker applications</a>. Our target release window is before the end of Q1 2025. This will serve as a stepping stone toward BOINC 9.0.0, which will feature full support for <a href="2024.12.01.html">BUDA applications</a>.</p>
<p>We’ll share the complete list of new features and fixes for 8.2.0 as we get closer to launch, so stay tuned — the next blog post will be packed with details!</p>
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