From e4e3cb48517fb57f73b0985d4eda74f0e31c8155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:52:56 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS. --- NEWS | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1884fe0d..a696a7e5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,33 @@ +Version 2.8.6 - October 29, 2012 + +- Shorten the initiate stratum connect timeout to 30 seconds. +- Shorten the stratum timeout on read to 90 seconds to detect unresponsive pool. +- Display best share difficulty on exit. +- Make stratum socket fail more robust on windows by disabling the send buffer. +- Reuse the same curl handle forcing a new connection instead of risking +derefencing. +- Add information about submission failure to stratum send. +- Only add stratum share to database if we succeeded in submitting it, with a +debug output saying it succeeded. +- Use keepalive with stratum sockets to improve its ability to detect broken +connections. +- Show only the URL in the status bar to avoid long prefixes making for extra +long lines. +- Display compact status in menu and update README to reflect current menu +entries. +- Add a compact display mode that does not list per device statistics in the +status window. +- Add blank spaces after best share displayed. +- Round a few static string arrays up to 4 byte boundaries for ARM. +- Display best share diff for scrypt as well. +- Show the best diff share as "best share" and add info to the README. +- Display the best diff share submitted so far. +- Redundant check. +- The work struct pointer in struct pc_data in findnonce is never freed yet +there is no need to allocate it separately so make struct work a static part of +the struct pc_data. s + + Version 2.8.5 - October 23, 2012 - Handle crash exceptions by trying to restart cgminer unless the --no-restart