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