Browse Source

Bump version to 4.99.1 in preparation for 5.0

Luke Dashjr 11 years ago
parent
commit
6d3945f354
6 changed files with 212 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 196 0
      NEWS
  2. 1 1
      README.RPC
  3. 1 1
      configure.ac
  4. 12 0
      debian/changelog
  5. 1 1
      debian/control
  6. 1 1
      openwrt/bfgminer/Makefile

+ 196 - 0
NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,199 @@
+BFGMiner Version 5.0.0 - Future
+
+- Keccak: Simplify keccak_hash_data
+- keccak: Adapt opencl intensity interpretation to have approximately the same
+desktop interactivity affect as SHA256d
+- Keccak: Include support in various builds
+- Travis: Update with Keccak
+- opencl/keccak: Add non-goffset support
+- opencl/keccak: Unroll all the hash rounds properly
+- opencl: Add Keccak support via "fullheader" kernel interface
+- keccak: Adapt for BFGMiner
+- Keccak: Import algorithm code as-is
+- opencl: Add a simple "fullheader" kernel interface
+- Update stratum mining.capabilities method to use a single Object for all
+parameters
+- Bugfix: Correct USE_SHA256D macro name to ensure SHA256d is always preferred
+as default algorithm
+- cpu: Generic scanhash that can support any PoW algorithm
+- RPC: Include Hash Method in minecoin for new algorithms
+- opencl: Teach findnonce to behave based on kernel interface rather than mining
+algorithm
+- opencl: Get min_nonce_diff from struct mining_algorithm
+- Move malgo-specific code to dedicated source files
+- opencl: Simplify kernel-specific data handling
+- Update knc-asic: Fix issue with detect_die crashing due to errors in response
+- titan: Init last_nonce on die reconfiguration to avoid lots of "unknown work"
+messages
+- Bugfix: titan: Extra garbage was sent on SPI with new commands
+- titan: Remove temporary log messages for manual report checks
+- titan: Wrong variable used in new per-die iteration
+- titan: Do manual core checks in parallel with normal ones
+- titan: Fix: Only one die was checked after flush in last commit
+- titan: Manually check all cores for reports after flush
+- opencl: Remove redundant checks for USE_OPENCL
+- cpu: Remove redundant checks for USE_CPUMINING
+- opencl: Only attempt to BFI_INT patch SHA256d kernels
+- Significantly rewrite configure script to handle driver dependencies cleaner
+- Make SHA256d mining optional
+- Bugfix: cointerra: Can handle nonces down to pdiff 1
+- kncasic: Initialise first_cgpu to silence false warning
+- Bugfix: Clarify goffset decision code, and refuse to compile kernels in
+situations where they won't work
+- Bugfix: opencl: Output buffer must be readable by kernel since it is used with
+a count/position iterator
+- Bugfix: opencl: Skip NULL kernel interface entry
+- DevAPI: hashes_done: Simplify and improve precision of max_nonce calculation
+- opencl: Avoid duplicating kernel_interfaces mapping in select_kernel
+- opencl: Avoid duplicating kernel_interfaces mapping in
+opencl_scanhash_get_kernel
+- cpu: Drivers should not be doing fulltest on their own, so remove it
+- cpu: Pass full work struct to scanhash functions
+- kncasic: Split up each ASIC channel to its own device
+- kncasic: Use consistent naming for KNC_MAX_DIES_PER_CORE
+- kncasic: Refactoring: coreid is not used, remove it
+- kncasic: Refactoring: put all device architecture defines in one place (knc-asic.h)
+- kncasic: Add lock to protect concurrent accesses to knc_state
+- kncasic: Fix auto
+- Build system fixes for kncasic driver
+- configure: Deduplicate Linux i2c-dev.h checks for KnCMiner drivers
+- Travis: Update for kncasic driver
+- kncasic: Only show the relevant die for RPC stats
+- kncasic: Use proc_repr for logging
+- kncasic: Split up logical processors
+- kncasic: Silence warning about unhandled enumeration values
+- Bugfix: kncasic: Proper format specifications
+- kncasic: Remove unused code
+- kncasic: Minimal changes to get it compiling
+- kncasic: Import gen 2 driver from cgminer commit
+bc153552be8591250cb3214bf5202501d4a39922
+- titan: Move thread_reportin() call to poll function
+- titan: reportin every process_report to avoid falsely tripping the watchdog
+- titan: Remove unused variables
+- Bump knc-asic submodule
+- titan: Increase FPGA to ASIC SPI frequency to 6 MHz
+- titan: Use new get_work_status prototype and print FPGA CRC error counters to
+log
+- Titan flush optimization fix: Don't send get_info commands when FPGA is
+speaking to ASIC
+- titan: All dies use same nonce working range
+- Titan flush optimization bugfix: FPGA status was checked once per poll instead
+of once per ASIC
+- Titan flush optimization: Bugfix: Flush time measurement only worked with one
+ASIC
+- Titan flush optimization: Point knc-asic submodule to include new FPGA image
+- Titan flush optimization: Remove temporary debug messages
+- Titan flush optimization: Keep works in local queue until slot number is
+reused
+- Titan flush optimization: Point knc-asic submodule to needed revision
+- Titan flush optimization: Measure new flush time
+- Titan flush optimization: Send works to all dies after flush
+- Titan flush optimization: First rough implementation
+- Titan: Less clobber on the screen: group some "failure" messages
+- Bugfix: Prefer not using work created just to ensure a specific algorithm is
+queued, so strategies work as much as possible
+- Stratum: Enable mining.set_goal to change parameters on the current goal
+- cpu: Fail gracefully if unsupported mining algo gets into scanhash
+- opencl: Fail gracefully if unsupported mining algo gets into
+opencl_scanhash_get_kernel
+- SSM: Send goal malgo to goal-enabled clients
+- Allow pools with #change_goal_malgo attribute to change the mining algorithm
+used by their assigned goal
+- Gracefully fail when no pool can be found to generate specific-algo work
+- Remove opt_scrypt
+- dualminer: Replace opt_scrypt with a per-device "scrypt" option
+- dualminer: Make dual_mode a per-device option as it should be
+- opencl: Nearly complete migration to per-work mining algorithms
+- pool_actively_desired: If we are the highest priority, workable pool for a
+given algorithm, we are needed
+- Ignore opt_queue for unused mining algorithms
+- Set name and aliases on mining algorithms
+- When hotplug is enabled and a mining algorithm is configured for the first
+time, schedule a rescan of hardware to pick up anything now applicable that may
+not have been before
+- Try to keep enough work queued for each mining algorithm in use
+- Move select_loadbalance and select_failover logic into their own functions
+- Keep track of how much work is staged per-algorithm
+- Keep track of how many goals reference each mining algorithm
+- Abstract goal_set_malgo function
+- Build a mining_algorithms list
+- get_work: Restore previous getwork rollntime behaviour
+- get_work: Only return work items compatible with processor (degrades getwork
+rollntime support)
+- opencl: Support for per-work mining algorithms
+- Build without POW_SCRYPT at all
+- opencl: Defer loading kernel until it is needed
+- opencl: Split initCl into opencl_create_clState and opencl_load_kernel
+- SSM: Implement mining.capabilities including proxying mining.set_goal
+- Replace mining.goal.subscribe with mining.capabilities
+- Stratum: Avoid resetting the goal if the old and new name match
+- Allow specifying goal options as eg, --pool-goal name:malgo=scrypt
+- cpu: Support for per-work mining algorithms
+- Replace cgpu.min_nonce_diff with drv.drv_min_nonce_diff(cgpu, malgo)
+- proxy: Avoid assumptions about mining algorithm at initialisation
+- Core only: Partially move most of opt_scrypt to mining_goal
+- opencl: Reintroduce independent intensity setting internally
+- Move MAX_*_INTENSITY stuff to driver-opencl.h
+- proxy: Minimise minimum difficulty for proxy clients
+- Enable --generate-to option (was --coinbase-addr) to work with non-default
+goals
+- Save pool goals in written config files
+- README: Update documentation for multiple blockchain support
+- RPC: Add "Difficulty Accepted" to "coin" command
+- RPC: Add "Mining Goal" to "pools" command
+- RPC: Accept an additional argument for "addpool" to indicate mining goal by
+name
+- Stratum: Support for mining.set_goal("goal name") - currently just resetting
+the user-configured goal
+- Teach longpoll logic about multiple mining goals
+- RPC: Include non-default goals in reply to "coin" command
+- Ignore generation address/script on pools using non-default mining goals
+- Only include block display lines for active goals
+- Move income to block display line, and show extra block display lines for each
+additional mining goal
+- New --pool-goal option to set a distinct named goal per-pool
+- Parameterise most references to global mining_goal_info
+- Move block_time to be per block_info
+- Show "?" for income if block height is unknown
+- Move block height tracking onto block_info
+- Calculate current_fullhash only when needed (for RPC 'coins')
+- Replace current_block_id with blkchain->currentblk[->block_id]
+- Move current_hash to goal->current_goal_detail
+- Clean up struct block_info names
+- Use full prevblock hash as block key (also gets rid of dead code)
+- Move global variables related to the blockchain or mining goals on to global
+structs
+
+
+BFGMiner Version 4.10.1 - Future
+
+- Upgraded Windows libcurl from 7.38.0 to 7.39.0
+- Bump bundled libbase58 to 0.1.2
+- README.ASIC: Minor cleanups to Zeusminer section
+- README.ASIC: Explain Zeusminer options
+- Makefile: Specify .cl files explicitly, and only include scrypt ones when
+configured with scrypt support
+- Bugfix: DevAPI: hashes_done: Explicitly cast to uint64_t for big calculations
+(LLVM was allowing overflow)
+- Bugfix: titan: First core in each die got too big nonce area to work on
+- Travis: Build MinGW64 with ncurses
+- Bugfix: Declare manual_enable_pool in miner.h, for api.c use
+- Bugfix: bitfury: Use long long and llabs to avoid under/over flows misbehaving
+- Bugfix: Highlight all active pools, in pool listing
+- Set quota to 1 when enabling a failover-only pool, and disable failover-only
+when setting quota
+- Bugfix: pool_actively_desired: Detect failover-only conditions for loadbalance
+and balance strategies
+- Bugfix: Only display pools as Failover state when it is effectively so
+- Make sure KEY_EVENT from wincon is ignored (it conflicts with ncurses)
+- README.ASIC: Add details for BFx2 USB
+- Titan: Submit stale shares while doing flushes
+- README.ASIC: Remove CFLAGS hack not needed for KnCMiner Titan build
+- Bugfix: Need unicode_micro in non-Unicode curses builds
+- Remove unused variables from curses-less builds
+- Bugfix: Cannot duplicate userpass option or we end up with it processed double
+
+
 BFGMiner Version 4.10.0 - October 21, 2014
 
 - Upgraded Windows libjansson from 2.6 to 2.7

+ 1 - 1
README.RPC

@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ https://www.npmjs.org/package/miner-rpc
 Feature Changelog for external applications using the API:
 
 
-API V3.3
+API V3.3 (BFGMiner v5.0.0)
 
 Modified API command:
  'addpool' - accept an additional argument to indicate mining goal by name

+ 1 - 1
configure.ac

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ dnl * any later version.  See COPYING for more details.
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_maj], [4])
 m4_define([v_min], [99])
-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))

+ 12 - 0
debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+bfgminer (4.99.1-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * Multi-blockchain support: BFGMiner can now be told which pools use the same "mining goals", and will track the blockchain independently for ones that don't. This allows you to mine multiple cryptocurrencies concurrently using any pool strategy (including balance and load-balance).
+  * Multi-algorithm support: BFGMiner is now capable of hashing on both scrypt and SHA256d work at the same time, and you can assign the mining algorithm to use on a per-goal basis. As with multi-blockchain support, this works even in balancing strategies. Note that at this time, only CPU, OpenCL, and Proxy drivers actually support multiple algorithms at the same time (DualMiner must be preconfigured for only one, and GridSeed remains scrypt-only).
+  * Stratum extensions for mining goals: New experimental methods mining.capabilities and mining.set_goal for Stratum allow you to expose control of the mining algorithm to the pool. These extensions are considered draft and may be changed based on the needs of multiblockchain pool operators.
+  * RPC: Also extended for multiple mining goals/algorithms. Interface is subject to change.
+  * kncasic: New driver for KnCMiner Neptune (and 2nd-gen Jupiter modules).
+  * Titan: Work flushing optimisations from KnCMiner.
+  * Keccak: Support for the SHA-3 winner hash as a proof-of-work algorithm.
+
+ -- Luke Dashjr <luke+bfgminer@dashjr.org>  Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:07:24 -0000
+
 bfgminer (4.10.0-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
 
   * minergate: Support for Spondoolies SP30.

+ 1 - 1
debian/control

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: bfgminer
 Priority: optional
 Section: misc
 Maintainer: Luke Dashjr <luke_bfgminer@dashjr.org>
-Standards-Version: 4.10.0
+Standards-Version: 4.99.1
 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, git, quilt, uthash-dev, libsensors4-dev
 
 Package: bfgminer

+ 1 - 1
openwrt/bfgminer/Makefile

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=bfgminer
 PKG_TITLE:=BFGMiner
-PKG_VERSION:=4.10.0
+PKG_VERSION:=4.99.1
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).txz