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| 1 | +Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +- The --url option is now mandatory |
| 4 | +- Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy |
| 5 | +- Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr) |
| 6 | +- Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache) |
| 7 | +- Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8 |
| 8 | + and old versions of OS X |
| 9 | +- A man page for minerd is now available |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013 |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors |
| 14 | +- Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message |
| 15 | +- Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013 |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +- Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy) |
| 20 | +- Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1 |
| 21 | +- Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013 |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +- Add support for the Stratum mining protocol |
| 26 | +- Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports |
| 27 | + the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used |
| 28 | +- Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye) |
| 29 | +- Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy) |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012 |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +- Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d |
| 34 | +- Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing |
| 35 | +- Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012 |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +- Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64 |
| 40 | +- Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors |
| 41 | +- Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows |
| 42 | +- Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012 |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +- Add optimized code for ARM processors |
| 47 | +- Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD |
| 48 | +- Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius) |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012 |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +- Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code |
| 53 | + for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions |
| 54 | +- Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64 |
| 55 | +- The default timeout is now 270 seconds |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012 |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +- Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors |
| 60 | +- Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server |
| 61 | +- Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions |
| 62 | +- Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012 |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +- Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64 |
| 67 | +- Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections |
| 68 | +- Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option |
| 69 | +- Username and password are no longer mandatory |
| 70 | +- Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions |
| 71 | + of the GNU assembler that do not support macros |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012 |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +- Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time |
| 76 | + if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server |
| 77 | + continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers |
| 78 | +- Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k) |
| 79 | +- Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool |
| 80 | +- It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL, |
| 81 | + like this: http://username:password@host:port/ |
| 82 | +- Add a --version option, and clean up --help output |
| 83 | +- Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates |
| 84 | +- Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA) |
| 85 | +- Eliminate the delay between starting threads |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012 |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +- Do not submit work that is known to be stale |
| 90 | +- Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least |
| 91 | + 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled |
| 92 | +- Refresh work when long polling times out |
| 93 | +- Fix minor speed regression |
| 94 | +- Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012 |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +- Handle network errors properly |
| 99 | +- Make scantime retargeting more accurate |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012 |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +- Share the same work among all threads |
| 104 | +- Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired |
| 105 | +- Do not discard the work returned by long polling |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012 |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +- Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials |
| 110 | +- Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz) |
| 111 | +- Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64 |
| 112 | +- Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz) |
| 113 | +- Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits |
| 114 | +- Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds |
| 115 | +- Add share summary output (inlikeflynn) |
| 116 | +- Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows |
| 117 | +- Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011 |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | +- Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas |
| 122 | +- Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo |
| 123 | +- Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly |
| 124 | +- Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate |
| 125 | +- Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible |
| 126 | +- Minor performance tweaks |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011 |
| 129 | + |
| 130 | +- OSX support |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011 |
| 133 | + |
| 134 | +- jansson 2.0 compatibility |
| 135 | +- correct off-by-one in date (month) display output |
| 136 | +- fix platform detection |
| 137 | +- improve yasm configure bits |
| 138 | +- support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header |
| 139 | + |
| 140 | +Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011 |
| 141 | + |
| 142 | +- Make --user, --pass actually work |
| 143 | + |
| 144 | +- Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may |
| 145 | + more easily identify the miner client. |
| 146 | + |
| 147 | +- Fix minor bug in example JSON config file |
| 148 | + |
| 149 | +Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011 |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +- Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php |
| 152 | + |
| 153 | +- Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds, |
| 154 | + or 60 seconds for longpoll) |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | +- Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +- Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file), |
| 159 | + as an alternative to the current --userpass |
| 160 | + |
| 161 | +Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011 |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +- Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only) |
| 164 | + This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs. |
| 165 | + |
| 166 | +- Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the |
| 167 | + number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource |
| 168 | + usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server. |
| 169 | + |
| 170 | +Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011 |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | +- Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example |
| 173 | + file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line |
| 174 | + may be stored in the config file. |
| 175 | +- Timestamp each solution found |
| 176 | +- Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes |
| 177 | + the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect. |
| 178 | +- Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization |
| 179 | +- Build on Intel compiler |
| 180 | +- HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects |
| 181 | + |
| 182 | +Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011 |
| 183 | + |
| 184 | +- Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections |
| 185 | +- Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available |
| 186 | +- Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now |
| 187 | + |
| 188 | +Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011 |
| 189 | + |
| 190 | +- Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan |
| 191 | + if the high 32 bits are 00000000. |
| 192 | +- Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries |
| 193 | +- Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled |
| 194 | +- Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your |
| 195 | + scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly |
| 196 | + reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit. |
| 197 | + |
| 198 | +Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011 |
| 199 | + |
| 200 | +- Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime) |
| 201 | +- BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations |
| 202 | +- lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp) |
| 203 | +- Fix non-working short options -q, -r |
| 204 | + |
| 205 | +Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010 |
| 206 | + |
| 207 | +- Exit program, when all threads have exited |
| 208 | +- Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience |
| 209 | +- Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output. |
| 210 | + |
| 211 | +Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010 |
| 212 | + |
| 213 | +- Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo |
| 214 | + |
| 215 | +Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010 |
| 216 | + |
| 217 | +- Critical fix for sha256_via |
| 218 | + |
| 219 | +Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010 |
| 220 | + |
| 221 | +- Critical fix for sha256_via |
| 222 | +- Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "minerd --help" output) |
| 223 | + |
| 224 | +Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010 |
| 225 | + |
| 226 | +- Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation |
| 227 | +- show version upon 'minerd --help' |
| 228 | +- work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance |
| 229 | + |
| 230 | +Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010 |
| 231 | + |
| 232 | +- VIA padlock implementation works now |
| 233 | +- Minor build and runtime fixes |
| 234 | + |
| 235 | +Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010 |
| 236 | + |
| 237 | +- avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions |
| 238 | +- add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now) |
| 239 | +- minor internal optimizations and cleanups |
| 240 | + |
| 241 | +Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010 |
| 242 | + |
| 243 | +- Add script for building a Windows installer |
| 244 | +- improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics |
| 245 | +- add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation |
| 246 | +- Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation |
| 247 | + |
| 248 | +Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010 |
| 249 | + |
| 250 | +- many small cleanups and micro-optimizations |
| 251 | +- build win32 exe using mingw |
| 252 | +- RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments |
| 253 | +- remove unused OpenSSL dependency |
| 254 | + |
| 255 | +Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010 |
| 256 | + |
| 257 | +- Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer. |
| 258 | + |
| 259 | +Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010 |
| 260 | + |
| 261 | +- Initial release. |
| 262 | + |
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