From 433808be70d1660d367f17e39d37e1b6923166e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:07:11 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ac6e4a56..a242882d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,43 @@ +Version 2.8.4 - October 18, 2012 + +- Time for dynamic is in microseconds, not ms. +- x86_64 builds of mingw32 are not supported directly and should just configure +as generic mingw32 builds since they're NOT 64 bit. +- Cope with both ATI stream and AMD APP SDK roots being set when building. +- Use 3 significant digits when suffix string is used and values are >1000. +- MMQ new initialisation (that works) and clocking control +- Get rid of unused warning for !scrypt. +- Use select on stratum send to make sure the socket is writeable. +- Cope with dval being zero in suffix_string and display a single decimal place +when significant digits is not specified but the value is greater than 1000. +- Pad out the suffix string function with zeroes on the right. +- Failure to calloc in bin2hex is a fatal failure always so just check for that +failure within the function and abort, simplifying the rest of the code. +- Provide locking around the change of the stratum curl structures to avoid +possible races. +- Bump opencl kernel version numbers. +- Remove atomic ops from opencl kernels given rarity of more than once nonce on +the same wavefront and the potential increased ramspeed requirements to use the +atomics. +- Clear the pool idle flag in stratum when it comes back to life. +- Display correct share hash and share difficulty with scrypt mining. +- Use explicit host to BE functions in scrypt code instead of hard coding +byteswap everywhere. +- Show work target diff for scrypt mining. +- Ease the checking on allocation of padbuffer8 in the hope it works partially +anyway on an apparently failed call. +- Watch for buffer overflows on receiving data into the socket buffer. +- Round target difficulties down to be in keeping with the rounding of detected +share difficulties. +- Dramatically simplify the dynamic intensity calculation by oversampling many +runs through the opencl kernel till we're likely well within the timer +resolution on windows. +- String alignment to 4 byte boundaries and optimisations for bin<->hex +conversions. +- In opencl_free_work, make sure to still flush results in dynamic mode. +- Align static arrays to 4 byte boundaries to appease ARM builds for stratum. + + Version 2.8.3 - October 12, 2012 - Left align values that are suffix_string generated.