Bump version to 2.8.1

API-README

@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ miner.php - an example web page to access the API
 Feature Changelog for external applications using the API:
 
 
-API V1.19b
+API V1.19b (BFGMiner v2.8.1)
 
 Added API commands:
  'pgaidentify|N' (only works for BFL Singles so far)

NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,35 @@
-BFGMiner Version 2.8.1 - Future
-
+BFGMiner Version 2.8.1 - September 27, 2012
+
+- cairnsmore: Implement "identify" for supported firmware
+- Adjust identify_device API to return a bool whether supported or not, for
+runtime capability detection
+- Bugfix: cairnsmore: Fix invalid share detection on LE
+- Bugfix: icarus: Fix logging message to not assume "Icarus" always, and use
+device driver name
+- Bugfix: cairnsmore: Correct frequency scaling detection logic
+- cairnsmore: When changing frequency, adjust Hs expectations accordingly
+- cairnsmore: Detect availability of frequency scaling, and only enable it
+when supported
+- cairnsmore: Implement dynamic clocking support for Glasswalker's bitstream
+- Update libblkmaker to 0.1.1
+- Advertise BFGMiner in blocks found by default (without --coinbase-sig)
+- RPC: Add "Coinbase-Sig" to config/setconfig
+- New --coinbase-sig option to add arbitrary data to blocks you generate (GBT
+only)
+- opencl: Defer nonce validity checking to submit_nonce
+- scrypt: Implement test_nonce2 and submit_nonce hw error check
+- Bugfix: modminer: Convert nonce to native endian
+- Interpret any attempts to submit a H-not-zero nonce as a hardware error
+- make-release: Strip DLLs and EXE in Windows binary
+- dynclock: Use consistent messages for frequency changes
+- modminer: Port to dynclock
+- dynclock: Split dynamic clocking algorithm out of Ztex driver
+- Bugfix: When changing GPU memclock, adjust internal variable so it is
+correctly saved to config file
+- Bugfix: Re-probe longpoll header for each pool alive check, including
+retries when a preferred protocol fails
+- Bugfix: modminer: Bitstream binary filenames are *.bit
+- modminer: Start frequency off at 200 Mhz
 - Reorder libztex header include order to fix missing struct definition.
 - Display share difficulty on log with a shortened hash display on submission.
 - API stats add some pool getwork difficulty stats

configure.ac

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_maj], [2])
 m4_define([v_min], [8])
-m4_define([v_mic], [0])
+m4_define([v_mic], [1])
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_ver], [v_maj.v_min.v_mic])
 m4_define([lt_rev], m4_eval(v_maj + v_min))

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+bfgminer (2.8.1-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * Many improvements for Enterpoint's Cairsmore, including (experimental) support for Glasswalker's dynamic frequency bitstream.
+  * New --coinbase-sig option that lets you embed a short tidbit in any blocks you personally find (only on GBT-enabled pools).
+  * Generic dynamic clocking framework based on the Ztex driver's (written by nelisky), now used by ModMiner and (Glasswalker) Cairnsmore.
+  * New RPC "identify" command to flash LEDs on some FPGAs (currently BitForce and GW Cairnsmore).
+  * Include share difficulty information in log and RPC.
+  * Lots of other various bugfixes and small improvements.
+
+ -- Luke Dashjr <luke+bfgminer@dashjr.org>  Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:20:05 -0000
+
+
 bfgminer (2.8.0-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
 
   * Basic getblocktemplate decentralized mining protocol support, including rolling extranonce (based on libblkmaker 0.1).

debian/control

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: bfgminer
 Priority: optional
 Section: misc
 Maintainer: Luke Dashjr <luke_bfgminer@dashjr.org>
-Standards-Version: 2.8.0
+Standards-Version: 2.8.1
 Build-Depends: build-essential, debhelper, autoconf, automake, libtool, libssl-dev, yasm, pkg-config, libudev-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, wget, unzip, libjansson-dev, libncurses5-dev, libudev-dev, libusb-1.0-0-dev
 
 Package: bfgminer