303 lines
9.7 KiB
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303 lines
9.7 KiB
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Version 2.5.0 - Jun 22, 2017
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- Add Segwit support
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- Add support for 64-bit PowerPC
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Version 2.4.5 - Jun 10, 2016
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- Fix a memory leak affecting long polling
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Version 2.4.4 - Mar 24, 2016
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- Fix memory leaks affecting getblocktemplate
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Version 2.4.3 - Jan 24, 2016
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- Add support for the VIA PadLock Hash Engine on x86-64
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- Allow block version 4 when using getblocktemplate
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Version 2.4.2 - Apr 28, 2015
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- Add support for Stratum over TLS
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- Allow block version 3 when using getblocktemplate
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Version 2.4.1 - Feb 25, 2015
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- Add support for scrypt(N, 1, 1)
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- Add optimized PowerPC code for scrypt and SHA-256d
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- Allow use of getblocktemplate with merge-mined cryptocurrencies
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- Automatically switch to getwork if no payout address is provided
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- Fix CVE-2014-6251
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Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014
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- Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22)
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- Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies
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- Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests
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- Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default
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- Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer)
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- Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin
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- Expand version information with build details
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Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014
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- The --url option is now mandatory
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- Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy
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- Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr)
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- Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache)
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- Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8
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and old versions of OS X
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- A man page for minerd is now available
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Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013
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- Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors
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- Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message
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- Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code
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Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013
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- Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy)
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- Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1
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- Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers
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Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013
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- Add support for the Stratum mining protocol
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- Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports
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the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used
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- Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye)
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- Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy)
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Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012
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- Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d
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- Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing
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- Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension
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Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012
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- Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64
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- Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors
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- Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
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- Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems
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Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012
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- Add optimized code for ARM processors
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- Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD
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- Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius)
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Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012
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- Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code
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for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions
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- Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64
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- The default timeout is now 270 seconds
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Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012
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- Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors
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- Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server
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- Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions
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- Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius)
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Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012
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- Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64
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- Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections
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- Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option
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- Username and password are no longer mandatory
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- Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions
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of the GNU assembler that do not support macros
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Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012
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- Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time
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if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server
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continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers
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- Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k)
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- Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool
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- It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL,
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like this: http://username:password@host:port/
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- Add a --version option, and clean up --help output
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- Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates
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- Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA)
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- Eliminate the delay between starting threads
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Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012
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- Do not submit work that is known to be stale
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- Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
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45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
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- Refresh work when long polling times out
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- Fix minor speed regression
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- Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils
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Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012
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- Handle network errors properly
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- Make scantime retargeting more accurate
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Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012
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- Share the same work among all threads
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- Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired
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- Do not discard the work returned by long polling
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Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012
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- Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials
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- Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz)
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- Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64
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- Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz)
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- Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
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- Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds
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- Add share summary output (inlikeflynn)
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- Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows
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- Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
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Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011
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- Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas
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- Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo
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- Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly
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- Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate
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- Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible
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- Minor performance tweaks
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Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011
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- OSX support
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Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011
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- jansson 2.0 compatibility
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- correct off-by-one in date (month) display output
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- fix platform detection
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- improve yasm configure bits
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- support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header
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Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011
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- Make --user, --pass actually work
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- Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may
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more easily identify the miner client.
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- Fix minor bug in example JSON config file
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Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
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- Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
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- Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
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or 60 seconds for longpoll)
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- Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
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- Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
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as an alternative to the current --userpass
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Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
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- Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
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This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs.
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- Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the
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number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource
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usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server.
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Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
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- Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example
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file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line
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may be stored in the config file.
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- Timestamp each solution found
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- Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes
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the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
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- Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
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- Build on Intel compiler
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- HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
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Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
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- Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
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- Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
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- Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
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Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
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- Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
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if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
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- Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
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- Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
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- Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your
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scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
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reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
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Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
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- Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
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- BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
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- lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
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- Fix non-working short options -q, -r
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Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
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- Exit program, when all threads have exited
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- Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
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- Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
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Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
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- Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
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Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
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- Critical fix for sha256_via
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Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
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- Critical fix for sha256_via
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- Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "minerd --help" output)
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Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
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- Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
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- show version upon 'minerd --help'
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- work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
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Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
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- VIA padlock implementation works now
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- Minor build and runtime fixes
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Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
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- avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
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- add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
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- minor internal optimizations and cleanups
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Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
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- Add script for building a Windows installer
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- improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
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- add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
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- Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
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Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
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- many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
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- build win32 exe using mingw
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- RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
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- remove unused OpenSSL dependency
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Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
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- Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
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Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010
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- Initial release.
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