From 238a85156e13ddf555d5448af20fef5348134e86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:22:56 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS with changelog for upcoming 2.2.0 release. --- NEWS | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8417f73f..a9e180b4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,35 @@ +Version 2.2.0 + +- Implement socks4 proxy support. +- Fix send() for JSON strings +- Introduce a --net-delay option which guarantees at least 250ms between any +networking requests to not overload slow routers. +- Generalise locking init code. +- Allow invalid values to be in the configuration file, just skipping over them +provided the rest of the file is valid JSON. This will allow older configurat +- Allow CPU mining explicitly enable only if other mining support is built in. +- BitForce FPGA support +- Configure out building and support of all CPU mining code unless +--enable-cpumining is enabled. +- Allow parsed values to be zero which will allow 0 values in the config file to +work. +- Advertise that we can make our own midstate, so the pool can skip generating +it for us +- Refactor the CPU scanhash_* functions to use a common API. Fixes bugs. +- Don't consider a pool lagging if a request has only just been filed. This +should decrease the false positives for "pool not providing work fast enough". +- Invalidating work after longpoll made hash_pop return no work giving a false +positive for dead pool. Rework hash_pop to retry while finds no staged work u +- Remove TCP_NODELAY from curl options as many small packets may be contributing +to network overload. +- Refactor miner_thread to be common code for any kind of device +- Simplify submit_nonce loop and avoid potentially missing FOUND - 1 entry. +Reported by Luke-Jr. +- Micro-optimisation in sha256_sse2 code courtesy of Guido Ascioti +guido.ascioti@gmail.com +- Refactor to abstract device-specific code + + Version 2.1.2 - January 6, 2012 - If api-description is specified, save it when writing the config file