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+Version 2.8.1 - October 8, 2012
+
+- Use the stratum url as the rpc url advertised if we switch to it.
+- Count an invalid nonce count as a hardware error on opencl.
+- Count each stratum work item as local work.
+- Cope with one stratum pool being the only active pool when it dies by sleeping
+for 5 seconds before retrying to get work from it instead of getting work
+indefinitely.
+- Detect stratum outage based on either select timing out or receiving an empty
+buffer and properly re-establish connection by disabling the stratum_active
+flag, coping with empty buffers in parse_stratum.
+
+
 Version 2.8.0 - October 7, 2012
 
 - Major upgrade - support for the stratum mining protocol.