KWSN Orbiting Fortress

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We're starting the move to only using the new application. No new workunits will be generated for the old application (however the old assimilator and validator will keep
running until all the old workunits have been processed (so you'll still get credit for those). We'll be updating with a version 0.5 tonight which will fix the checkpoint error that's
being output (it's just cosmetic). We'll also put out a binary for FreeBSD along with that. Since we've made the source code available, we'll only be supporting binaries for FreeBSD,
Linux, OS/X and Windows, so if you're using something more obscure than that you'll have to compile it yourself because we don't have regular access to those types of systems. We've had
some discussion and the new WUs should be a bit more computationally intense, which should help with the server problems we've been having. Not to mention that moving away from the old
app and it's server side daemons will also help our server load issues.

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