2 - Add cryptonight-light (Aeon)
5 - Lyra2v2, arm compat, multipool config
7 version 1.1 (Tanguy Pruvot)
8 - Add basic API remote control (quit/seturl)
9 - Add GroestlCoin, Diamond and Myriad variants
10 - Add Pluck algo and fix gbt query crash
11 - Add ZR5 algo (ZRC) and fix longpoll bug on linux
13 - Add Skein2 algo (Double Skein for Woodcoin)
14 - Add Animecoin algo (Quark variant)
15 - Add Dropcoin pok algo
16 - Add BMW-256 (MDT) algo
18 - Change some logged strings
19 - Use all cores by default, not N-1
20 - Handle a default config to run without params
21 - add cpu-priority and cpu-affinity options
22 - add NSIS installer script for windows setup
23 - Implement background option on windows
24 - add -m stratum option (diff-multiplier)
25 - Time limit to allow benchmarks or cron jobs
26 - Fix Cryptonight stratum support
27 - Allow to disable extranonce support
29 version 1.0.9 (Tanguy Pruvot)
30 - pool extranonce subscribe
34 - API websocket support
36 Version 1.0.8 (Tanguy Pruvot)
37 - API Monitoring Support
38 - Enhance config values support (int/real/bool)
39 - Rewrite blake algo (speed x2)
41 Version 1.0.7 (Tanguy Pruvot)
42 - Add NIST5 and QUBIT algos
43 - Show current stratum bloc height
44 - Fix wallet solo mining
46 Version 1.0.6 (Tanguy Pruvot)
49 - Add -f tuning option to test with reduced difficulty
52 Version 1.0.5 (Tanguy Pruvot)
54 - Merge remaining v2.4 cpu-miner changes
55 - Add colored output (disable with --no-color)
56 - Test and fix blake on NEOS, needs 14 rounds (was 8)
57 - Add pentablake (5x blake256) (from bitbandi)
59 - Windows (VC++ 2013 and MinGW64 build support)
60 - Enhance --version informations (compiler + lib versions)
62 Version 1.0.4 (Tanguy Pruvot)
64 - Add x13 x14 and x15 algos (Sherlockcoin, X14Coin, Webcoin..)
65 - Add scrypt:N variants (Vertcoin)
67 - Fix thread khashes/s value output
68 - Add a configure option --disable-assembly
70 Version multi 1.0.3 (Lucas Jones)
73 x11 (Darkcoin [DRK], Hirocoin, Limecoin)
74 cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero)
75 keccak (Maxcoin HelixCoin, CryptoMeth, Galleon, 365coin, Slothcoin, BitcointalkCoin)
78 skein (Skeincoin, Myriadcoin)
84 Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014
86 - Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22)
87 - Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies
88 - Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests
89 - Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default
90 - Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer)
91 - Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin
92 - Expand version information with build details
94 Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014
96 - The --url option is now mandatory
97 - Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy
98 - Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr)
99 - Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache)
100 - Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8
101 and old versions of OS X
102 - A man page for minerd is now available
104 Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013
106 - Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors
107 - Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message
108 - Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code
110 Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013
112 - Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy)
113 - Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1
114 - Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers
116 Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013
118 - Add support for the Stratum mining protocol
119 - Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports
120 the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used
121 - Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye)
122 - Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy)
124 Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012
126 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d
127 - Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing
128 - Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension
130 Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012
132 - Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64
133 - Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors
134 - Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
135 - Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems
137 Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012
139 - Add optimized code for ARM processors
140 - Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD
141 - Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius)
143 Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012
145 - Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code
146 for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions
147 - Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64
148 - The default timeout is now 270 seconds
150 Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012
152 - Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors
153 - Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server
154 - Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions
155 - Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius)
157 Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012
159 - Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64
160 - Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections
161 - Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option
162 - Username and password are no longer mandatory
163 - Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions
164 of the GNU assembler that do not support macros
166 Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012
168 - Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time
169 if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server
170 continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers
171 - Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k)
172 - Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool
173 - It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL,
174 like this: http://username:password@host:port/
175 - Add a --version option, and clean up --help output
176 - Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates
177 - Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA)
178 - Eliminate the delay between starting threads
180 Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012
182 - Do not submit work that is known to be stale
183 - Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
184 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
185 - Refresh work when long polling times out
186 - Fix minor speed regression
187 - Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils
189 Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012
191 - Handle network errors properly
192 - Make scantime retargeting more accurate
194 Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012
196 - Share the same work among all threads
197 - Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired
198 - Do not discard the work returned by long polling
200 Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012
202 - Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials
203 - Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz)
204 - Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64
205 - Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz)
206 - Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
207 - Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds
208 - Add share summary output (inlikeflynn)
209 - Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows
210 - Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
212 Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011
214 - Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas
215 - Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo
216 - Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly
217 - Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate
218 - Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible
219 - Minor performance tweaks
221 Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011
225 Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011
227 - jansson 2.0 compatibility
228 - correct off-by-one in date (month) display output
229 - fix platform detection
230 - improve yasm configure bits
231 - support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header
233 Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011
235 - Make --user, --pass actually work
237 - Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may
238 more easily identify the miner client.
240 - Fix minor bug in example JSON config file
242 Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
244 - Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
246 - Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
247 or 60 seconds for longpoll)
249 - Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
251 - Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
252 as an alternative to the current --userpass
254 Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
256 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
257 This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs.
259 - Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the
260 number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource
261 usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server.
263 Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
265 - Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example
266 file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line
267 may be stored in the config file.
268 - Timestamp each solution found
269 - Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes
270 the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
271 - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
272 - Build on Intel compiler
273 - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
275 Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
277 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
278 - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
279 - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
281 Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
283 - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
284 if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
285 - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
286 - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
287 - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your
288 scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
289 reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
291 Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
293 - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
294 - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
295 - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
296 - Fix non-working short options -q, -r
298 Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
300 - Exit program, when all threads have exited
301 - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
302 - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
304 Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
306 - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
308 Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
310 - Critical fix for sha256_via
312 Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
314 - Critical fix for sha256_via
315 - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "--help" output)
317 Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
319 - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
320 - show version upon 'minerd --help'
321 - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
323 Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
325 - VIA padlock implementation works now
326 - Minor build and runtime fixes
328 Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
330 - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
331 - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
332 - minor internal optimizations and cleanups
334 Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
336 - Add script for building a Windows installer
337 - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
338 - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
339 - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
341 Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
343 - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
344 - build win32 exe using mingw
345 - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
346 - remove unused OpenSSL dependency
348 Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
350 - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
352 Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010