- Do not submit work that is known to be stale
- Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
- Refresh work when long polling times out
- Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of
binutils
- Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
- Set idle priority on Windows
- Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
- Fix example JSON configuration file
Add likely() macro.
Optimise a few obvious code paths with likely/unlikely.
Change algo to sse2_amd64 by default.
Move priority change to worker threads only.
Detect number of CPUs and set default number of threads == CPUs.
Add scheduling policy change to worker threads to SCHED_IDLE first and fallback to SCHED_BATCH on linux.
Don't error when failing to set priority.
Add CPU affinity and bind worker threads to CPUs when number of threads is a multiple of number of CPUs.
Update NEWS with changes.
