From 154337f34c0282d5b1ca2fbce1a4419f22a01c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:13:45 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dbc4e5a7..d9730c74 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,52 @@ +Version 2.7.1 - August 21, 2012 + +- Update windows build instructions courtesy of sharky. +- Increase max curls to number of mining threads + queue * 2, accounting for up +and downstream comms. +- Queue enough requests to get started. +- There is no point trying to clone_work in get_work() any more since we clone +on every get_work_thread where possible. +- There is no point subtracting 1 from maxq in get_work_thread. +- Only set lagging flag once there are no staged work items. +- select_pool does not switch back to the primary once lagging is disabled. +- miner.php allow page title to be defined in myminer.php +- Free work before retrying in get_work_thread. +- Increment total work counter under mutex lock. +- Increment the queued count after the curl is popped in case there's a delay +waiting on curls and we think we've queued work when in fact we're waiting +- API new command 'coin' with mining information +- Do the dynamic timing in opencl code over a single pass through scanhash to +make sure we're only getting opencl times contributing to the measured inte +- Increase curl reaping time to 5 minutes since comms between curl requests can +be 2 mins apart with lots of rolltime. +- No need for extra variable in hash_push. +- Remove short options -r and -R to allow them to be reused and remove readme +entries for deprecated options. +- Avoid attempting to recursively lock the console mutex by disabling warnings +in gpu_fanpercent when fanspeed monitoring fails on windows. Debugged by l +- Deprecate the opt_fail_pause parameter, leaving a null placeholder for +existing configurations. +- Don't pause after failed getwork, set lagging flag and reassess. +- Add message to share if it's a resubmit. +- We should not be pausing in trying to resubmit shares. +- Get rid of the extending fail pause on failed connects since we discard work +after a period. +- get_work always returns true so turn it into a void function. +- get_work never returns false so get rid of fail pause loop. +- Get rid of pause and retry from get_upstream_work so we only do it from one +place. +- Deprecate the opt_retries feature as no one wants cgminer to automatically +abort. Leave a null placeholder for configurations that still have it. +- Reinstate fix ADL gpu-map not working when there are more ADL devices than +openCL patch by Nite69. Add virtual adl mapping for when none is specified o +- miner.php show summary Diff1 Shares total +- miner.php fix Work Utility totals +- miner.php format new Work Utility and Diff1 Shares +- Merge pull request #299 from kanoi/api +- API V1.17 show Work Utility and Diff1 Shares + + + Version 2.7.0 - August 18, 2012 - Introduce a new statistic, Work Utility, which is the number of difficulty 1