The new app 5.01 has some new science stuff and some new error-catching stuff that we're testing.

On science, we're testing a more aggressive minimization protocol (it led to a lot of errors in ralph release 4.98; we think we've got the fix), and a cool folding procedure that involves "stapling" parts of the backbone together and making cuts elsewhere. The latter procedure is called "jumping" for esoteric reasons.

On error-catching, we now have the app aborts if it hasn't made progress after 5 restarts (this should prevent clients with big jobs from tackling the same hard workunits over and over again).

Coming soon (I guess ralph 5.02), we'll have a "watchdog" thread that should abort Rosetta if it gets stuck in infinite loops!

By the way, my apologies for announcing the release of 5.01 yesterday; I had updated the app but didn't realize that we needed to restart the feeder daemons. So they were sending out jobs with the old app!

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