Version 1.3.7 - Add geek algo - Add x16rv2 algo - Add yescriptr8/16/32 variants Version 1.3.6 - Add lyra2v3 algo - Add blake2b algo - Add x20r algo - Add rainforest algo Version 1.3.5 - Add allium algo - Add x12 algo - Add x16s algo - Add phi and phi2 - Add sonoa - Handle new aeon cryptolight variant - Handle new monero algo (hardcoded) Version 1.3.3 - Add tribus algo - Add x16r algo - Add keccakc variant Version 1.3.2 - Add bitcore algo - Add jha algo Version 1.3.1 (Tanguy Pruvot) 26 Jan 2017 - Add timetravel algo - Add --max-log-rate to limit per-core logs Version 1.3 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Add decred algo - Add lbry algo - Add sia algo - Add x11evo algo - Add x17 and xevan algos - Add veltor algo - Enhance Blake2-S - Stratum benchmarks support - Show diff and solved blocks by default Version 1.2 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Add cryptonight-light (Aeon) - Add Lyra2REv2 algo (Vertcoin) - Allow to load a remote config with curl - Algorithm parameter is now case insensitive - Drop anime algo (dead coin) - Add Sib(coin) algo - Add Bastion algo - Add Yescrypt and scrypt-jane algos - Compute and show network diff in pools too - Compute Shares diff and count solved blocks - Checkup on arm, tested ok on Tegra K1 (CyanogenMod 12.1) version 1.1 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Add basic API remote control (quit/seturl) - Add GroestlCoin, Diamond and Myriad variants - Add Pluck algo and fix gbt query crash - Add ZR5 algo (ZRC) and fix longpoll bug on linux - Add Luffa algo - Add Skein2 algo (Double Skein for Woodcoin) - Add Animecoin algo (Quark variant) - Add Dropcoin pok algo - Add BMW-256 (MDT) algo - Add Axiom algo - Change some logged strings - Use all cores by default, not N-1 - Handle a default config to run without params - add cpu-priority and cpu-affinity options - add NSIS installer script for windows setup - Implement background option on windows - add -m stratum option (diff-multiplier) - Time limit to allow benchmarks or cron jobs - Fix Cryptonight stratum support - Allow to disable extranonce support version 1.0.9 (Tanguy Pruvot) - pool extranonce subscribe - upgrade jansson - lyra2 algo - fix for solo mining - API websocket support Version 1.0.8 (Tanguy Pruvot) - API Monitoring Support - Enhance config values support (int/real/bool) - Rewrite blake algo (speed x2) Version 1.0.7 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Add NIST5 and QUBIT algos - Show current stratum block height - Fix wallet solo mining Version 1.0.6 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Fix scrypt algo - More work on VC2013 - Add -f tuning option to test with reduced difficulty - Add S3 algo Version 1.0.5 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Merge remaining v2.4 cpu-miner changes - Add colored output (disable with --no-color) - Test and fix blake on NEOS, needs 14 rounds (was 8) - Add pentablake (5x blake256) (from bitbandi) - Add neoscrypt - Windows (VC++ 2013 and MinGW64 build support) - Enhance --version informations (compiler + lib versions) Version 1.0.4 (Tanguy Pruvot) - Add x13 x14 and x15 algos (Sherlockcoin, X14Coin, Webcoin..) - Add scrypt:N variants (Vertcoin) - Add fresh algo - Fix thread khashes/s value output - Add a configure option --disable-assembly Version multi 1.0.3 (Lucas Jones) - Add new algos : x11 (Darkcoin [DRK], Hirocoin, Limecoin) cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero) keccak (Maxcoin HelixCoin, CryptoMeth, Galleon, 365coin, Slothcoin, BitcointalkCoin) hefty1 (Heavycoin) quark (Quarkcoin) skein (Skeincoin, Myriadcoin) shavite3 (INKcoin) blake (Blakecoin) - See README.md Version 2.4 - May 20, 2014 - Add support for the getblocktemplate RPC method (BIP 22) - Allow tunnelling Stratum through HTTP proxies - Add a --no-redirect option to ignore redirection requests - Timeout for long polling is now disabled by default - Fix CPU affinity on Linux (kiyominer) - Add support for building under 64-bit Cygwin - Expand version information with build details Version 2.3.3 - Feb 27, 2014 - The --url option is now mandatory - Do not switch to Stratum when using an HTTP proxy - Fix scheduling policy change on Linux (clbr) - Fix CPU affinity on FreeBSD (ache) - Compatibility fixes for various platforms, including Solaris 8 and old versions of OS X - A man page for minerd is now available Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013 - Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors - Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message - Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013 - Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy) - Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1 - Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013 - Add support for the Stratum mining protocol - Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used - Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye) - Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy) Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012 - Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d - Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing - Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012 - Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64 - Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors - Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows - Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012 - Add optimized code for ARM processors - Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD - Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius) Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012 - Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions - Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64 - The default timeout is now 270 seconds Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012 - Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors - Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server - Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions - Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius) Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012 - Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64 - Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections - Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option - Username and password are no longer mandatory - Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions of the GNU assembler that do not support macros Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012 - Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers - Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k) - Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool - It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL, like this: http://username:password@host:port/ - Add a --version option, and clean up --help output - Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates - Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA) - Eliminate the delay between starting threads Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012 - Do not submit work that is known to be stale - Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled - Refresh work when long polling times out - Fix minor speed regression - Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012 - Handle network errors properly - Make scantime retargeting more accurate Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012 - Share the same work among all threads - Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired - Do not discard the work returned by long polling Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012 - Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials - Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz) - Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64 - Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz) - Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits - Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds - Add share summary output (inlikeflynn) - Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows - Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011 - Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas - Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo - Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly - Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate - Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible - Minor performance tweaks Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011 - OSX support Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011 - jansson 2.0 compatibility - correct off-by-one in date (month) display output - fix platform detection - improve yasm configure bits - support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011 - Make --user, --pass actually work - Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may more easily identify the miner client. - Fix minor bug in example JSON config file Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011 - Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php - Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds, or 60 seconds for longpoll) - Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms - Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file), as an alternative to the current --userpass Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011 - Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only) This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs. - Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server. Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011 - Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line may be stored in the config file. - Timestamp each solution found - Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect. - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization - Build on Intel compiler - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011 - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan if the high 32 bits are 00000000. - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit. Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011 - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime) - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp) - Fix non-working short options -q, -r Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010 - Exit program, when all threads have exited - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output. Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010 - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010 - Critical fix for sha256_via Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010 - Critical fix for sha256_via - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "--help" output) Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010 - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation - show version upon 'minerd --help' - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010 - VIA padlock implementation works now - Minor build and runtime fixes Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010 - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now) - minor internal optimizations and cleanups Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010 - Add script for building a Windows installer - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010 - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations - build win32 exe using mingw - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments - remove unused OpenSSL dependency Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010 - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer. Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010 - Initial release.
