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Version 2.3.2-q - Aug 16, 2013 |
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- Added support for Quarkcoin (QRK) hashing algorithm (Neisklar) |
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Version 2.3.2 - Jul 10, 2013 |
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- Add optimizations for AVX2-capable x86-64 processors |
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- Ensure that the output stream is flushed after every log message |
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- Fix an undefined-behavior bug in the Stratum code |
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Version 2.3.1 - Jun 18, 2013 |
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- Add a --cert option for specifying an SSL certificate (martinwguy) |
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- Fix a bug that only made SHA-256d mining work at difficulty 1 |
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- Fix a couple of compatibility issues with some Stratum servers |
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Version 2.3 - Jun 12, 2013 |
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- Add support for the Stratum mining protocol |
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- Automatically switch to Stratum if the mining server supports |
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the X-Stratum extension, unless --no-stratum is used |
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- Set CPU affinity on FreeBSD (lye) |
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- Fix a bug in libcurl initialization (martinwguy) |
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Version 2.2.3 - Aug 5, 2012 |
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- Add optimized ARM NEON code for scrypt and SHA-256d |
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- Add a --benchmark option that allows offline testing |
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- Support for the X-Reject-Reason extension |
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Version 2.2.2 - Jun 7, 2012 |
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- Various performance improvements for x86 and x86-64 |
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- Optimize scrypt for ARMv5E and later processors |
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- Set the priority of miner threads to idle on Windows |
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- Add an option to start minerd as a daemon on POSIX systems |
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Version 2.2.1 - May 2, 2012 |
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- Add optimized code for ARM processors |
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- Support for building on NetBSD and OpenBSD |
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- Various compatibility fixes for AIX (pontius) |
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Version 2.2 - Apr 2, 2012 |
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- Add an optimized SHA-256d algorithm, with specialized code |
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for x86 and x86-64 and support for AVX and XOP instructions |
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- Slight performance increase for scrypt on x86 and x86-64 |
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- The default timeout is now 270 seconds |
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Version 2.1.5 - Mar 7, 2012 |
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- Add optimizations for AVX-capable x86-64 processors |
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- Assume HTTP if no protocol is specified for the mining server |
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- Fix MinGW compatibility issues and update build instructions |
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- Add support for building on Solaris using gcc (pontius) |
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Version 2.1.4 - Feb 28, 2012 |
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- Implement 4-way SHA-256 on x86-64 |
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- Add TCP keepalive to long polling connections |
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- Support HTTP and SOCKS proxies via the --proxy option |
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- Username and password are no longer mandatory |
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- Add a script that makes assembly code compatible with old versions |
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of the GNU assembler that do not support macros |
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Version 2.1.3 - Feb 12, 2012 |
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- Smart handling of long polling failures: switch to short scan time |
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if long polling fails, and only try to reactivate it if the server |
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continues to advertise the feature in HTTP headers |
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- Add "X-Mining-Extensions: midstate" to HTTP headers (p2k) |
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- Add support for the "submitold" extension, used by p2pool |
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- It is now possible to specify username and password in the URL, |
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like this: http://username:password@host:port/ |
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- Add a --version option, and clean up --help output |
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- Avoid division by zero when computing hash rates |
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- Handle empty responses properly (TimothyA) |
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- Eliminate the delay between starting threads |
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Version 2.1.2 - Jan 26, 2012 |
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- Do not submit work that is known to be stale |
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- Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least |
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45 seconds old and long polling is enabled |
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- Refresh work when long polling times out |
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- Fix minor speed regression |
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- Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils |
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Version 2.1.1 - Jan 20, 2012 |
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- Handle network errors properly |
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- Make scantime retargeting more accurate |
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Version 2.1 - Jan 19, 2012 |
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- Share the same work among all threads |
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- Do not ask for new work if the current one is not expired |
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- Do not discard the work returned by long polling |
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Version 2.0 - Jan 16, 2012 |
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- Change default port to 9332 for Litecoin and remove default credentials |
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- Add 'scrypt' as the default algorithm and remove other algorithms (ArtForz) |
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- Optimize scrypt for x86 and x86-64 |
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- Make scantime retargeting less granular (ArtForz) |
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- Test the whole hash instead of just looking at the high 32 bits |
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- Add configurable timeout, with a default of 180 seconds |
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- Add share summary output (inlikeflynn) |
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- Fix priority and CPU count detection on Windows |
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- Fix parameters -u and -p, and add short options -o and -O |
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Version 1.0.2 - Jun 13, 2011 |
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- Linux x86_64 optimisations - Con Kolivas |
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- Optimise for x86_64 by default by using sse2_64 algo |
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- Detects CPUs and sets number of threads accordingly |
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- Uses CPU affinity for each thread where appropriate |
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- Sets scheduling policy to lowest possible |
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- Minor performance tweaks |
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Version 1.0.1 - May 14, 2011 |
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- OSX support |
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Version 1.0 - May 9, 2011 |
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- jansson 2.0 compatibility |
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- correct off-by-one in date (month) display output |
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- fix platform detection |
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- improve yasm configure bits |
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- support full URL, in X-Long-Polling header |
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Version 0.8.1 - March 22, 2011 |
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- Make --user, --pass actually work |
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- Add User-Agent HTTP header to requests, so that server operators may |
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more easily identify the miner client. |
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- Fix minor bug in example JSON config file |
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Version 0.8 - March 21, 2011 |
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- Support long polling: http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php |
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- Adjust max workload based on scantime (default 5 seconds, |
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or 60 seconds for longpoll) |
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- Standardize program output, and support syslog on Unix platforms |
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- Suport --user/--pass options (and "user" and "pass" in config file), |
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as an alternative to the current --userpass |
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Version 0.7.2 - March 14, 2011 |
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- Add port of ufasoft's sse2 assembly implementation (Linux only) |
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This is a substantial speed improvement on Intel CPUs. |
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- Move all JSON-RPC I/O to separate thread. This reduces the |
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number of HTTP connections from one-per-thread to one, reducing resource |
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usage on upstream bitcoind / pool server. |
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Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011 |
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- Add support for JSON-format configuration file. See example |
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file example-cfg.json. Any long argument on the command line |
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may be stored in the config file. |
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- Timestamp each solution found |
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- Improve sha256_4way performance. NOTE: This optimization makes |
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the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect. |
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- Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization |
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- Build on Intel compiler |
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- HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects |
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Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011 |
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- Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections |
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- Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available |
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- Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now |
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Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011 |
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- Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan |
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if the high 32 bits are 00000000. |
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- Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries |
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- Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled |
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- Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work. This means if your |
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scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly |
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reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit. |
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Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011 |
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- Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime) |
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- BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations |
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- lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp) |
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- Fix non-working short options -q, -r |
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Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010 |
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- Exit program, when all threads have exited |
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- Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience |
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- Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output. |
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Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010 |
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- Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo |
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Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010 |
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- Critical fix for sha256_via |
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Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010 |
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- Critical fix for sha256_via |
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- Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "minerd --help" output) |
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Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010 |
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- Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation |
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- show version upon 'minerd --help' |
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- work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance |
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Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010 |
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- VIA padlock implementation works now |
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- Minor build and runtime fixes |
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Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010 |
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- avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions |
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- add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now) |
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- minor internal optimizations and cleanups |
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Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010 |
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- Add script for building a Windows installer |
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- improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics |
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- add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation |
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- Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation |
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Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010 |
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- many small cleanups and micro-optimizations |
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- build win32 exe using mingw |
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- RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments |
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- remove unused OpenSSL dependency |
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Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010 |
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- Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer. |
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Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010 |
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- Initial release. |
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