Bump version to 2.8.4

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+BFGMiner Version 2.8.4 - October 30, 2012
+
+- Bugfix: regeneratehash needs to compare hash segments in Little Endian, not
+Big Endian
+- Bugfix: Wait to release JSON result in case of JSON-RPC error until we've
+logged the error
+- Bugfix: RPC: Defer release of JSON until after cmd is used
+- Bugfix: Release JSON result in case of JSON-RPC error
+- Bugfix: Release job JSON result as soon as we are done using it
+- Bugfix: Release JSON received from RPC socket after we're done using it
+- Bugfix: Use clear_work and workdup everywhere work is copied around
+- modminer: Remove dead code
+- Bugfix: Save pool pointer to avoid dereferencing work after it might
+potentially be freed
+- Bugfix: Cleanup some harmless warnings
+- Bugfix: Clear work before replacing it with new, to free any pointers
+- Bugfix: Release job JSON result as soon as we are done using it
+- Bugfix: Release GBT submission JSON objects after dumping them
+- Bugfix: Clear work template when preparing a new request
+- Replace now-redundant accepted_weighed with equivalent diff_accepted
+- Bugfix: modminer: Check that we have a valid fd before trying to start work
+- Minor debian packaging fixes.
+
+
 BFGMiner Version 2.8.3 - October 18, 2012
 
 - Update to libblkmaker 0.1.3

configure.ac

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_maj], [2])
 m4_define([v_min], [8])
-m4_define([v_mic], [3])
+m4_define([v_mic], [4])
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_ver], [v_maj.v_min.v_mic])
 m4_define([lt_rev], m4_eval(v_maj + v_min))

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+bfgminer (2.8.4-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * More bug fixes, including numerous memory leaks.
+
+ -- Luke Dashjr <luke+bfgminer@dashjr.org>  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:09:19 -0000
+
+
 bfgminer (2.8.3-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
 
   * Various bugs fixed, no new features.

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: 2.8.4
 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, git, quilt
 
 Package: bfgminer