sgminer/NEWS.md

Release news

Version 4.2.0 - 20th May 2014

• git repo moved to sgminer-dev. It is now a GitHub organisation with several people having write access.
• Kernel bufius merger from vertminer (by Bufius).
• Set pool as idle on several stratum failure conditions (by elbandi).
• API response to version has field CGMiner instead of SGMiner for API client compatibility, and an additional Miner field (by luke-jr).
• API response to restart and quit only contains a status section and passes JSON validation (by luke-jr).
• API response to devs contains XIntensity and RawIntensity fields.
• Config file writing from TUI/API should produce a borked config less often.

Version 4.1.271 - 12th April 2014

• Allow setting algorithm per-pool and initial implementation of kernel hot-swapping (by mrbrdo). Use options pool-algorithm (in config file or in CLI) or algorithm (config-only).
• NCurses UI [S][W] writes pool name and description to configuration.
• Added algorithm name to pools API command (by troky).
• NCurses UI asks for (optional) pool name, description and algorithm when adding pool.
• API command addpool allows both url,user,pass and url,user,pass,name,desc,algo.

Version 4.1.242 - 7th April 2014

• There are now two mailing lists (on SourceForge), see README.md.
• Adaptive-N-factor algorithm support (by Bufius, Zuikkis and veox). For details on choosing the algorithm, see doc/configuration.md.
• Allowed kernel names are no longer hard-coded. It is now possible to use any .cl file.
• Configuration parameter poolname has been renamed to name. poolname is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
• Multiple --name parsing should now work as expected (by troky).
• --description configuration parameter to specify a freeform pool description, and --priority to specify the pool's priority (by troky).

Version 4.1.153 - 14th March 2014

• Display pool URL instead of "Pool N" if no poolname specified.
• Incognito mode to hide user name in NCurses interface - useful for publishing screenshots. To enable, use --incognito on command line, incognito in config or [D][I] in NCurses interface.
• Support building in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, perhaps other versions as well (by troky). Documentation in winbuild/README.txt.
• Support building in Cygwin (by markuspeloquin). Documentation in doc/cygwin-build.txt.
• Forward-port changes from ckolivas/cgminer up to 3.12.3.
• Allow setting worksize for kernel zuikkis.
• More log messages in pool handling.
• Updated doc/FAQ.md.
• Updated example.conf.

Version 4.1.0 - 7th February 2014

• Writing configuration file from NCurses interface is broken!
• Commandline option parsing may be broken!
• MinGW building may be broken!
• Bug reporting documentation: doc/BUGS.md.
• Kernel selection and integration: doc/KERNEL.md.
• Several updates to other documentation files.
• Warn if GPU_* environment variables are not set.
• Maximum intensity lowered to 31 (anything above that gives an overflow anyway).
• Experimental xintensity setting (by Kalroth), see commit message.
• Experimental rawintensity setting (by Kalroth), see commit message.
• -v is now a shorthand for --verbose, not --vectors.
• Default scantime and expiry changed to 7 and 28 (tests run by MissedOutOnBTC).
• Increased precision of API_MHS; added API_KHS.
• Pulled in kernels: alexkarold, alexkarnew, psw, zuikkis; renamed scrypt to ckolivas; all kernels now reside in directory kernel. Kernels can be chosen at startup only, by specifying kernel.
• Small optimisation to ckolivas kernel (by gdevenyi).
• Named pools via poolname (by Kalroth).
• Failover pool switching back delay is configurable via failover-switch-delay (by Kalroth).
• Pool state: enabled, disabled, and hidden (by Joe4782).
• Allow all pools to be set disabled.
• Use RPM in ADL get-fanspeed requests (from bfgminer, by luke-jr).
• Verbose ADL failure messages (by Joe4782 and deba12).
• Use git version string if available.
• Allow bypassing ADL checks during build with --disable-adl-checks.
• MinGW build checks (by tonobitc).
• Experimental Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 building support in branch build-msvs2010-upd (by troky).

Version 4.0.0 - 15th January 2014

• Fork veox/sgminer from ckolivas/cgminer version 3.7.2.
• Remove code referencing SHA256d mining, FPGAs and ASICS. Leftovers most probably still remain.
• AMD ADL crash fix on R9 chipsets by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
• Maximum allowed intensity increased to 42.
• Move documentation to directory doc.
• --gpu-threads support for comma-separated values by Martin Danielsen (Kalroth).
• AMD ADL SDK 5 mandatory, preparation for ADL Overdrive 6 support by Kalroth.
• Allow changing TCP keepalive packet idle time using --tcp-keepalive.
• Automatic library presence detection by configure.
• --scrypt option removed (no other choice now).
• --vectors option removed (current kernel only supports 1).
• Display per-GPU reject percentage instead of absolute values by Kalroth.
• Do not show date in log by default (switch with --log-show-date).
• Fix network difficulty display to resemble that of cgminer 3.1.1.
• Forward-port relevant bugfixes form ckolivas/cgminer, up to cgminer version 3.10.0.

Previous NEWS file available here.