Bump version to 5.5.0

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@
+BFGMiner Version 5.5.0 - January 3, 2018
+
+- Update official Win32/64 build compiler and libraries:
+- - Win64 compiler (GCC) from 5.3.0 to 7.2.0 (Win32 remains at 4.7.4)
+- - c-ares from 1.10.0-r1 to 1.11.0
+- - libjansson from 2.7 to 2.10
+- - libcurl from 7.47.1 to 7.57.0
+- - libevent from 2.1.5-r4 to 2.1.8
+- - libusb from 1.0.20 to 1.0.21
+- - libmicrohttpd from 0.9.48 to 0.9.58
+- - zlib from 1.2.8-r1 to 1.2.11-r1
+- Update copyrights
+- AUTHORS: Update
+- README.ASIC: Update Alcheminer
+- alchemist: Reset using DTR as well
+- alchemist: Experimental USB->UART Dongle Support on RPi
+- make-release: Add crypt32.dll to OS-provided library list
+- README: Expand on --set-device documentation
+- Update libblkmaker to 0.6.0
+- openwrt: Update for LEDE 17.01
+- ccan: Update to latest version (which fixes musl libc support)
+- Bugfix: probe_device_thread: Fix threadname buffer size
+- Bugfix: appdata_file_call: Fix buffer size and loop
+- Bugfix: SSM: Clear desired_default_share_pdiff when initialising
+desired_share_pdiff before authentication
+- cpu: Avoid relocations for x86_64 assembly that interfere with building
+BFGMiner as a PIE
+- Bugfix: SSM: We already hold the pool lock when we need to call stale_work,
+so avoid trying to lock it a second time inside the function
+- Bugfix: Hold the control lock when updating the generate-to script
+- Bugfix: Hold the pool lock when updating lp_id
+- Bugfix: icarus: Explicitly specify type wide enough for bitshift in
+icarus_proc_for_nonce
+- configure: BFG_FIND_INCLUDE_PATH: Handle more unusual syntax correctly
+- Bugfix: SSM: Handle network problems safely, and use thread-safe libevent
+
+
 BFGMiner Version 5.4.2 - March 26, 2016
 
 - Update official Win32/64 build compiler and libraries:

configure.ac

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ dnl * any later version.  See COPYING for more details.
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_maj], [5])
-m4_define([v_min], [4])
-m4_define([v_mic], [2])
+m4_define([v_min], [5])
+m4_define([v_mic], [0])
 ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##
 m4_define([v_ver], [v_maj.v_min.v_mic])
 m4_define([lt_rev], m4_eval(v_maj + v_min))

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+bfgminer (5.5.0-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * Support for Alcheminer using a USB->UART dongle
+
+ -- Luke Dashjr <luke+bfgminer@dashjr.org>  Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:09:52 -0000
+
 bfgminer (5.4.2-0precise1) precise; urgency=low
 
   * Fix some possible edge case problems with stratum proxying (--stratum-port)

debian/control

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: bfgminer
 Priority: optional
 Section: misc
 Maintainer: Luke Dashjr <luke_bfgminer@dashjr.org>
-Standards-Version: 5.4.2
+Standards-Version: 5.5.0
 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

openwrt/bfgminer/Makefile

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=bfgminer
 PKG_TITLE:=BFGMiner
-PKG_VERSION:=5.4.2
+PKG_VERSION:=5.5.0
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).txz