1 version 1.1-git (Tanguy Pruvot)
2 - Add basic API remote control (quit/seturl)
3 - Add GroestlCoin, Diamond and Myriad variants
4 - Add Pluck algo and fix gbt query crash
5 - Change some logged strings
6 - Use all cores by default, not N-1
7 - Handle a default config to run without params
8 - add cpu-priority and cpu-affinity options
9 - add NSIS installer script for windows setup
10 - Implement background option on windows
12 version 1.0.9 (Tanguy Pruvot)
13 - pool extranonce subscribe
17 - API websocket support
19 Version 1.0.8 (Tanguy Pruvot)
20 - API Monitoring Support
21 - Enhance config values support (int/real/bool)
22 - Rewrite blake algo (speed x2)
24 Version 1.0.7 (Tanguy Pruvot)
25 - Add NIST5 and QUBIT algos
26 - Show current stratum bloc height
27 - Fix wallet solo mining
29 Version 1.0.6 (Tanguy Pruvot)
32 - Add -f tuning option to test with reduced difficulty
35 Version 1.0.5 (Tanguy Pruvot)
37 - Merge remaining v2.4 cpu-miner changes
38 - Add colored output (disable with --no-color)
39 - Test and fix blake on NEOS, needs 14 rounds (was 8)
40 - Add pentablake (5x blake256) (from bitbandi)
42 - Windows (VC++ 2013 and MinGW64 build support)
43 - Enhance --version informations (compiler + lib versions)
45 Version 1.0.4 (Tanguy Pruvot)
47 - Add x13 x14 and x15 algos (Sherlockcoin, X14Coin, Webcoin..)
48 - Add scrypt:N variants (Vertcoin)
50 - Fix thread khashes/s value output
51 - Add a configure option --disable-assembly
53 Version multi 1.0.3 (Lucas Jones)
56 x11 (Darkcoin [DRK], Hirocoin, Limecoin)
57 cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero)
58 keccak (Maxcoin HelixCoin, CryptoMeth, Galleon, 365coin, Slothcoin, BitcointalkCoin)
61 skein (Skeincoin, Myriadcoin)
67 Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014
69 - Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22)
70 - Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies
71 - Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests
72 - Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default
73 - Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer)
74 - Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin
75 - Expand version information with build details
77 Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014
79 - The --url option is now mandatory
80 - Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy
81 - Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr)
82 - Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache)
83 - Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8
84 and old versions of OS X
85 - A man page for minerd is now available
87 Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013
89 - Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors
90 - Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message
91 - Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code
93 Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013
95 - Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy)
96 - Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1
97 - Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers
99 Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013
101 - Add support for the Stratum mining protocol
102 - Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports
103 the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used
104 - Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye)
105 - Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy)
107 Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012
109 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d
110 - Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing
111 - Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension
113 Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012
115 - Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64
116 - Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors
117 - Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows
118 - Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems
120 Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012
122 - Add optimized code for ARM processors
123 - Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD
124 - Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius)
126 Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012
128 - Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code
129 for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions
130 - Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64
131 - The default timeout is now 270 seconds
133 Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012
135 - Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors
136 - Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server
137 - Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions
138 - Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius)
140 Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012
142 - Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64
143 - Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections
144 - Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option
145 - Username and password are no longer mandatory
146 - Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions
147 of the GNU assembler that do not support macros
149 Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012
151 - Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time
152 if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server
153 continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers
154 - Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k)
155 - Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool
156 - It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL,
157 like this: http://username:password@host:port/
158 - Add a --version option, and clean up --help output
159 - Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates
160 - Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA)
161 - Eliminate the delay between starting threads
163 Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012
165 - Do not submit work that is known to be stale
166 - Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least
167 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled
168 - Refresh work when long polling times out
169 - Fix minor speed regression
170 - Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils
172 Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012
174 - Handle network errors properly
175 - Make scantime retargeting more accurate
177 Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012
179 - Share the same work among all threads
180 - Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired
181 - Do not discard the work returned by long polling
183 Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012
185 - Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials
186 - Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz)
187 - Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64
188 - Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz)
189 - Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits
190 - Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds
191 - Add share summary output (inlikeflynn)
192 - Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows
193 - Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O
195 Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011
197 - Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas
198 - Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo
199 - Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly
200 - Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate
201 - Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible
202 - Minor performance tweaks
204 Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011
208 Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011
210 - jansson 2.0 compatibility
211 - correct off-by-one in date (month) display output
212 - fix platform detection
213 - improve yasm configure bits
214 - support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header
216 Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011
218 - Make --user, --pass actually work
220 - Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may
221 more easily identify the miner client.
223 - Fix minor bug in example JSON config file
225 Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011
227 - Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php
229 - Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds,
230 or 60 seconds for longpoll)
232 - Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms
234 - Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file),
235 as an alternative to the current --userpass
237 Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011
239 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only)
240 This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs.
242 - Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the
243 number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource
244 usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server.
246 Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
248 - Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example
249 file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line
250 may be stored in the config file.
251 - Timestamp each solution found
252 - Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes
253 the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
254 - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
255 - Build on Intel compiler
256 - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
258 Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
260 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
261 - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
262 - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
264 Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
266 - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
267 if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
268 - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
269 - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
270 - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your
271 scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
272 reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
274 Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
276 - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
277 - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
278 - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
279 - Fix non-working short options -q, -r
281 Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
283 - Exit program, when all threads have exited
284 - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
285 - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
287 Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
289 - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
291 Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
293 - Critical fix for sha256_via
295 Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
297 - Critical fix for sha256_via
298 - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "--help" output)
300 Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
302 - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
303 - show version upon 'minerd --help'
304 - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
306 Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
308 - VIA padlock implementation works now
309 - Minor build and runtime fixes
311 Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
313 - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
314 - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
315 - minor internal optimizations and cleanups
317 Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
319 - Add script for building a Windows installer
320 - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
321 - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
322 - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
324 Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
326 - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
327 - build win32 exe using mingw
328 - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
329 - remove unused OpenSSL dependency
331 Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
333 - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
335 Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010