1 Version multi 1.0.5 (Tanguy Pruvot)
3 - Merge remaining v2.4 cpu-miner changes
4 - Add colored output option (--color)
5 - Add --cputest parameter (debug)
6 - Test and fix blake on NEOS, needs 14 rounds (was 8)
7 - Add pentablake (5x blake256) (from bitbandi)
10 Version multi 1.0.4 (Tanguy Pruvot)
12 - Add x13 x14 and x15 algos (Sherlockcoin, X14Coin, Webcoin..)
13 - Add scrypt:N variants (Vertcoin)
15 - Fix thread khashes/s value output
16 - Add a configure option --disable-assembly
18 Version multi 1.0.3 (Lucas Jones)
21 x11 (Darkcoin [DRK], Hirocoin, Limecoin)
22 cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero)
23 keccak (Maxcoin HelixCoin, CryptoMeth, Galleon, 365coin, Slothcoin, BitcointalkCoin)
26 skein (Skeincoin, Myriadcoin)
32 Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014
34 - Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22)
35 - Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies
36 - Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests
37 - Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default
38 - Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer)
39 - Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin
40 - Expand version information with build details
42 Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014
44 - The --url option is now mandatory
45 - Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy
46 - Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr)
47 - Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache)
48 - Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8
49 and old versions of OS X
50 - A man page for minerd is now available
52 Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013
54 - Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors
55 - Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message
56 - Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code
58 Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013
60 - Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy)
61 - Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1
62 - Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers
64 Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013
66 - Add support for the Stratum mining protocol
67 - Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports
68 the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used
69 - Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye)
70 - Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy)
72 Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012
74 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d
75 - Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing
76 - Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension
78 Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012
80 - Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64
81 - Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors
82 - Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
83 - Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems
85 Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012
87 - Add optimized code for ARM processors
88 - Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD
89 - Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius)
91 Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012
93 - Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code
94 for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions
95 - Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64
96 - The default timeout is now 270 seconds
98 Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012
100 - Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors
101 - Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server
102 - Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions
103 - Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius)
105 Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012
107 - Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64
108 - Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections
109 - Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option
110 - Username and password are no longer mandatory
111 - Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions
112 of the GNU assembler that do not support macros
114 Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012
116 - Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time
117 if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server
118 continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers
119 - Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k)
120 - Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool
121 - It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL,
122 like this: http://username:password@host:port/
123 - Add a --version option, and clean up --help output
124 - Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates
125 - Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA)
126 - Eliminate the delay between starting threads
128 Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012
130 - Do not submit work that is known to be stale
131 - Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
132 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
133 - Refresh work when long polling times out
134 - Fix minor speed regression
135 - Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils
137 Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012
139 - Handle network errors properly
140 - Make scantime retargeting more accurate
142 Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012
144 - Share the same work among all threads
145 - Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired
146 - Do not discard the work returned by long polling
148 Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012
150 - Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials
151 - Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz)
152 - Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64
153 - Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz)
154 - Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
155 - Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds
156 - Add share summary output (inlikeflynn)
157 - Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows
158 - Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
160 Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011
162 - Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas
163 - Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo
164 - Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly
165 - Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate
166 - Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible
167 - Minor performance tweaks
169 Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011
173 Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011
175 - jansson 2.0 compatibility
176 - correct off-by-one in date (month) display output
177 - fix platform detection
178 - improve yasm configure bits
179 - support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header
181 Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011
183 - Make --user, --pass actually work
185 - Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may
186 more easily identify the miner client.
188 - Fix minor bug in example JSON config file
190 Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
192 - Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
194 - Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
195 or 60 seconds for longpoll)
197 - Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
199 - Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
200 as an alternative to the current --userpass
202 Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
204 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
205 This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs.
207 - Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the
208 number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource
209 usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server.
211 Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
213 - Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example
214 file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line
215 may be stored in the config file.
216 - Timestamp each solution found
217 - Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes
218 the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
219 - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
220 - Build on Intel compiler
221 - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
223 Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
225 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
226 - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
227 - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
229 Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
231 - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
232 if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
233 - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
234 - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
235 - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your
236 scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
237 reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
239 Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
241 - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
242 - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
243 - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
244 - Fix non-working short options -q, -r
246 Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
248 - Exit program, when all threads have exited
249 - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
250 - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
252 Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
254 - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
256 Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
258 - Critical fix for sha256_via
260 Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
262 - Critical fix for sha256_via
263 - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "minerd --help" output)
265 Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
267 - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
268 - show version upon 'minerd --help'
269 - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
271 Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
273 - VIA padlock implementation works now
274 - Minor build and runtime fixes
276 Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
278 - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
279 - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
280 - minor internal optimizations and cleanups
282 Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
284 - Add script for building a Windows installer
285 - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
286 - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
287 - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
289 Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
291 - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
292 - build win32 exe using mingw
293 - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
294 - remove unused OpenSSL dependency
296 Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
298 - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
300 Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010