10 Version 1.3.1 (Tanguy Pruvot) 26 Jan 2017
12 - Add --max-log-rate to limit per-core logs
14 Version 1.3 (Tanguy Pruvot)
19 - Add x17 and xevan algos
22 - Stratum benchmarks support
23 - Show diff and solved blocks by default
25 Version 1.2 (Tanguy Pruvot)
26 - Add cryptonight-light (Aeon)
27 - Add Lyra2REv2 algo (Vertcoin)
28 - Allow to load a remote config with curl
29 - Algorithm parameter is now case insensitive
30 - Drop anime algo (dead coin)
33 - Add Yescrypt and scrypt-jane algos
34 - Compute and show network diff in pools too
35 - Compute Shares diff and count solved blocks
36 - Checkup on arm, tested ok on Tegra K1 (CyanogenMod 12.1)
38 version 1.1 (Tanguy Pruvot)
39 - Add basic API remote control (quit/seturl)
40 - Add GroestlCoin, Diamond and Myriad variants
41 - Add Pluck algo and fix gbt query crash
42 - Add ZR5 algo (ZRC) and fix longpoll bug on linux
44 - Add Skein2 algo (Double Skein for Woodcoin)
45 - Add Animecoin algo (Quark variant)
46 - Add Dropcoin pok algo
47 - Add BMW-256 (MDT) algo
49 - Change some logged strings
50 - Use all cores by default, not N-1
51 - Handle a default config to run without params
52 - add cpu-priority and cpu-affinity options
53 - add NSIS installer script for windows setup
54 - Implement background option on windows
55 - add -m stratum option (diff-multiplier)
56 - Time limit to allow benchmarks or cron jobs
57 - Fix Cryptonight stratum support
58 - Allow to disable extranonce support
60 version 1.0.9 (Tanguy Pruvot)
61 - pool extranonce subscribe
65 - API websocket support
67 Version 1.0.8 (Tanguy Pruvot)
68 - API Monitoring Support
69 - Enhance config values support (int/real/bool)
70 - Rewrite blake algo (speed x2)
72 Version 1.0.7 (Tanguy Pruvot)
73 - Add NIST5 and QUBIT algos
74 - Show current stratum block height
75 - Fix wallet solo mining
77 Version 1.0.6 (Tanguy Pruvot)
80 - Add -f tuning option to test with reduced difficulty
83 Version 1.0.5 (Tanguy Pruvot)
85 - Merge remaining v2.4 cpu-miner changes
86 - Add colored output (disable with --no-color)
87 - Test and fix blake on NEOS, needs 14 rounds (was 8)
88 - Add pentablake (5x blake256) (from bitbandi)
90 - Windows (VC++ 2013 and MinGW64 build support)
91 - Enhance --version informations (compiler + lib versions)
93 Version 1.0.4 (Tanguy Pruvot)
95 - Add x13 x14 and x15 algos (Sherlockcoin, X14Coin, Webcoin..)
96 - Add scrypt:N variants (Vertcoin)
98 - Fix thread khashes/s value output
99 - Add a configure option --disable-assembly
101 Version multi 1.0.3 (Lucas Jones)
104 x11 (Darkcoin [DRK], Hirocoin, Limecoin)
105 cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero)
106 keccak (Maxcoin HelixCoin, CryptoMeth, Galleon, 365coin, Slothcoin, BitcointalkCoin)
109 skein (Skeincoin, Myriadcoin)
115 Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014
117 - Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22)
118 - Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies
119 - Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests
120 - Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default
121 - Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer)
122 - Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin
123 - Expand version information with build details
125 Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014
127 - The --url option is now mandatory
128 - Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy
129 - Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr)
130 - Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache)
131 - Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8
132 and old versions of OS X
133 - A man page for minerd is now available
135 Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013
137 - Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors
138 - Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message
139 - Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code
141 Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013
143 - Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy)
144 - Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1
145 - Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers
147 Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013
149 - Add support for the Stratum mining protocol
150 - Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports
151 the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used
152 - Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye)
153 - Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy)
155 Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012
157 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d
158 - Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing
159 - Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension
161 Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012
163 - Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64
164 - Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors
165 - Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
166 - Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems
168 Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012
170 - Add optimized code for ARM processors
171 - Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD
172 - Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius)
174 Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012
176 - Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code
177 for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions
178 - Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64
179 - The default timeout is now 270 seconds
181 Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012
183 - Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors
184 - Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server
185 - Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions
186 - Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius)
188 Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012
190 - Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64
191 - Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections
192 - Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option
193 - Username and password are no longer mandatory
194 - Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions
195 of the GNU assembler that do not support macros
197 Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012
199 - Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time
200 if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server
201 continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers
202 - Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k)
203 - Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool
204 - It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL,
205 like this: http://username:password@host:port/
206 - Add a --version option, and clean up --help output
207 - Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates
208 - Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA)
209 - Eliminate the delay between starting threads
211 Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012
213 - Do not submit work that is known to be stale
214 - Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
215 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
216 - Refresh work when long polling times out
217 - Fix minor speed regression
218 - Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils
220 Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012
222 - Handle network errors properly
223 - Make scantime retargeting more accurate
225 Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012
227 - Share the same work among all threads
228 - Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired
229 - Do not discard the work returned by long polling
231 Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012
233 - Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials
234 - Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz)
235 - Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64
236 - Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz)
237 - Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
238 - Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds
239 - Add share summary output (inlikeflynn)
240 - Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows
241 - Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
243 Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011
245 - Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas
246 - Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo
247 - Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly
248 - Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate
249 - Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible
250 - Minor performance tweaks
252 Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011
256 Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011
258 - jansson 2.0 compatibility
259 - correct off-by-one in date (month) display output
260 - fix platform detection
261 - improve yasm configure bits
262 - support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header
264 Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011
266 - Make --user, --pass actually work
268 - Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may
269 more easily identify the miner client.
271 - Fix minor bug in example JSON config file
273 Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
275 - Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
277 - Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
278 or 60 seconds for longpoll)
280 - Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
282 - Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
283 as an alternative to the current --userpass
285 Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
287 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
288 This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs.
290 - Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the
291 number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource
292 usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server.
294 Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
296 - Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example
297 file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line
298 may be stored in the config file.
299 - Timestamp each solution found
300 - Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes
301 the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
302 - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
303 - Build on Intel compiler
304 - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
306 Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
308 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
309 - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
310 - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
312 Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
314 - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
315 if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
316 - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
317 - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
318 - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your
319 scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
320 reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
322 Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
324 - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
325 - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
326 - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
327 - Fix non-working short options -q, -r
329 Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
331 - Exit program, when all threads have exited
332 - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
333 - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
335 Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
337 - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
339 Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
341 - Critical fix for sha256_via
343 Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
345 - Critical fix for sha256_via
346 - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "--help" output)
348 Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
350 - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
351 - show version upon 'minerd --help'
352 - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
354 Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
356 - VIA padlock implementation works now
357 - Minor build and runtime fixes
359 Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
361 - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
362 - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
363 - minor internal optimizations and cleanups
365 Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
367 - Add script for building a Windows installer
368 - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
369 - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
370 - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
372 Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
374 - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
375 - build win32 exe using mingw
376 - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
377 - remove unused OpenSSL dependency
379 Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
381 - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
383 Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010