From 1bf8c63bb8841be50257491924269f9c37e50442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pooler Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:00:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Version 2.3 --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ README | 12 +++++++----- configure.ac | 2 +- 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e058db..311683e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013 + +- Add support for the Stratum mining protocol +- Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports + the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used +- Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye) +- Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy) + Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d diff --git a/README b/README index fd95851..1b43ba2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Dependencies: Basic *nix build instructions: ./autogen.sh # only needed if building from git repo - ./nomacro.pl # only needed if building on Mac OS X + ./nomacro.pl # only needed if building on Mac OS X or with Clang ./configure CFLAGS="-O3" make @@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ Architecture-specific notes: x86-64: The miner can take advantage of AVX and XOP instructions, but only if both the CPU and the operating system support them. * Linux supports AVX starting from kernel version 2.6.30. + * FreeBSD supports AVX starting with 9.1-RELEASE. * Mac OS X added AVX support in the 10.6.8 update. * Windows supports AVX starting from Windows 7 SP1 and - Windows Server 2008 SP1. + Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The configure script outputs a warning if the assembler cannot compile AVX or XOP instructions. In that case, the miner can still be built, but unavailable optimizations are left off. @@ -55,11 +56,12 @@ Architecture-specific notes: Usage instructions: Run "minerd --help" to see options. Connecting through a proxy: Use the --proxy option. -To use a SOCKS proxy, add a socks4:// or socks5:// prefix to the proxy string. +To use a SOCKS proxy, add a socks4:// or socks5:// prefix to the proxy host. +Protocols socks4a and socks5h, allowing remote name resolving, are also +available since libcurl 7.18.0. If no protocol is specified, the proxy is assumed to be a HTTP proxy. When the --proxy option is not used, the program honors the http_proxy -environment variable. In this case, however, libcurl 7.21.7 or newer is -needed to handle protocol prefixes. +and all_proxy environment variables. Also many issues and FAQs are covered in the forum thread dedicated to this program, diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 9ed2fd5..9b87a11 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -AC_INIT([cpuminer], [2.2.3]) +AC_INIT([cpuminer], [2.3]) AC_PREREQ([2.59c]) AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM