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  • Author : Jeff Garzik
    Date : 2011-03-02 22:47:46
    Hash : 1d8b6e13
    Message : Release version 0.7.1.

  • NEWS
  • Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
    
    - Add support for JSON-format configuration file.  See example
      file example-cfg.json.  Any long argument on the command line
      may be stored in the config file.
    - Timestamp each solution found
    - Improve sha256_4way performance.  NOTE: This optimization makes
      the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
    - Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
    - Build on Intel compiler
    - HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
    
    Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
    
    - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
    - Use bswap_32, if compiler intrinsic is not available
    - Disable full target validation (as opposed to simply H==0) for now
    
    Version 0.6.1 - February 4, 2011
    
    - Fully validate "hash < target", rather than simply stopping our scan
      if the high 32 bits are 00000000.
    - Add --retry-pause, to set length of pause time between failure retries
    - Display proof-of-work hash and target, if -D (debug mode) enabled
    - Fix max-nonce auto-adjustment to actually work.  This means if your
      scan takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime), the miner will slowly
      reduce the number of hashes you work on, before fetching a new work unit.
    
    Version 0.6 - January 29, 2011
    
    - Fetch new work unit, if scanhash takes longer than 5 seconds (--scantime)
    - BeeCee1's sha256 4way optimizations
    - lfm's byte swap optimization (improves via, cryptopp)
    - Fix non-working short options -q, -r
    
    Version 0.5 - December 28, 2010
    
    - Exit program, when all threads have exited
    - Improve JSON-RPC failure diagnostics and resilience
    - Add --quiet option, to disable hashmeter output.
    
    Version 0.3.3 - December 27, 2010
    
    - Critical fix for sha256_cryptopp 'cryptopp_asm' algo
    
    Version 0.3.2 - December 23, 2010
    
    - Critical fix for sha256_via
    
    Version 0.3.1 - December 19, 2010
    
    - Critical fix for sha256_via
    - Retry JSON-RPC failures (see --retry, under "minerd --help" output)
    
    Version 0.3 - December 18, 2010
    
    - Add crypto++ 32bit assembly implementation
    - show version upon 'minerd --help'
    - work around gcc 4.5.x bug that killed 4way performance
    
    Version 0.2.2 - December 6, 2010
    
    - VIA padlock implementation works now
    - Minor build and runtime fixes
    
    Version 0.2.1 - November 29, 2010
    
    - avoid buffer overflow when submitting solutions
    - add Crypto++ sha256 implementation (C only, ASM elided for now)
    - minor internal optimizations and cleanups
    
    Version 0.2 - November 27, 2010
    
    - Add script for building a Windows installer
    - improve hash performance (hashmeter) statistics
    - add tcatm 4way sha256 implementation
    - Add experimental VIA Padlock sha256 implementation
    
    Version 0.1.2 - November 26, 2010
    
    - many small cleanups and micro-optimizations
    - build win32 exe using mingw
    - RPC URL, username/password become command line arguments
    - remove unused OpenSSL dependency
    
    Version 0.1.1 - November 24, 2010
    
    - Do not build sha256_generic module separately from cpuminer.
    
    Version 0.1 - November 24, 2010
    
    - Initial release.