github.com/nanopool/nanominer/releases/tag/v3.2.2

Fixed Autolykos for AMD Big Navi (Radeon 6xxx).

[2021-02-12]

github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/releases/tag/1.24

lolMiner 1.22 - 1.24 are Linux only releases that targets improvements of the performance of the zombie mode in the Linux specific code. Therefore the yesterday released version 1.21 will remain the recent release for Windows. Miners that do not have a card using the zombie mode can safely ignore this update - it will behave identical to 1.21.

Bug Fixes (from 1.24)

• Fixed a bug, that often caused the amdgpu driver to report a VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS on startup
• Fixed defect shares and wrong reported has hrate when started with fixed --zombie-tune parameters directly

Changes (from 1.23)

• Added (tunable) zombie mode kernels for R9 290(x) and R9 295 GPUs - on a popular request.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug with Baffin (RX 450,460, 550, 560) and Tonga (R9 380(X) ) GPUs showing too high hashrate and producing invalids in 1.23 zombie mode.
• Fixed a bug with ETC mining not starting up when more then two 4G GPUs in 1.23.

Personal release notes

I received quite some requests with problems about Nvidia cards and also if I can add in zombie mode kernels for 4G Nvidias and RX 5500. I need to say I tried, but there are some hurdles that prevented it. I will do better Nvidia codes in the future, but preparing it takes time.
That said the Navi cards somehow to not like to zombie tuning at all, that is why they only feature the standard zombie mode. Currently I also can not recommend mixing them into rigs where RX 4xx and 5xx cards run in zombie mode, because that seems to cause stuck systems from time to time. Mixing with 8G cards and do normal mining seems not to be an issue though.

The release of 1.25 will now (hopefully / in case of no urgent bugs to fix) take a while. I am preparing for great stuff to come, stay tuned.

[2021-02-12]

github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases/tag/0.19.11

IMPORTANT NOTE: This release mainly is a security patch for a vulnerability caused by binding miner API to 0.0.0.0 IP address by default thus exposing it to the outside world and allowing to perform various attacks. So, we strongly recommend updating to this version OR specifying --api-bind-http 127.0.0.1:4067 --api-bind-telnet 127.0.0.1:4068 as additional miner arguments in your bat/sh script to prevent these attacks. If you need to access the API or the Web UI from another device in your local network, you can bind the API to 0.0.0.0:4067 in which case it is recommended to disallow any config modifications with --api-read-only flag or set up your firewall in a way that prevents unauthorised access to the API. Security features like API password may be added in future releases. If you're running one of the Linux based mining operating systems like HiveOS, mmpOS and so on, you're very likely not affected as they bind T-Rex API servers to 127.0.0.1 by default.

Bug fixes:

• (API) Bind API servers to 127.0.0.1 by default to prevent unauthorised access to the API
• (API) Miner pause functionality is broken (regression)

[2021-02-06]

github.com/nanopool/nanominer/releases/tag/v3.2.0

Added Autolykos algorithm support for Ergo coin. Fee is 5%. Needs at least 3 GB GPU. Hashrates on stock settings:

• Nvidia 3070: 143 MH/s
• Nvidia 3060 ti: 142 MH/s
• Nvidia 1060: 33 MH/s
• AMD RX 5700: 81 MH/s
• AMD RX Vega 64: 80 MH/s
• AMD RX 580: 42 MH/s

Pool hashrate can be slightly less on not so powerful GPUs due to data generation on every block.
Example of a simplest config.ini file for mining Ergo on Nanopool:

coin=ergo wallet=9he6BZYMN8FMKxYKsqPvQJ6fbNar4bWuhJsR9JJt4x9Z6fiqSo1

Also fixed issue with disabling web interface by setting webPort option to zero.

[2021-02-04]

github.com/todxx/teamredminer/releases/tag/0.8.1

Team Red Miner v0.8.1

Key highlights:

• Big Navi support added. This is just a basic support release for all supported Navi algos (ethash, kawpow, mtp, nimiq).
  o Kernels are close to or identical with Navi10 A-mode (ethash) and default modes for Navi10 (kawpow, mtp, nimiq).
  o Please read the updated ETHASH_TUNING_GUIDE.txt for a short tuning section at the very end of the file.
  o Big Navi should run in A-mode for ethash (default choice), not B-mode. Read tuning guide for more info.

• Eth+zil mining: new pool strategy 'min_epoch' added for switching between plain eth and eth+zil pools. See the example start script start_zil_eth(.bat/.sh) for usage.

• Ethash: Navi display gpus now using A-mode by default to prevent allocation issues, especially on Windows. Navi gpus without a monitor attached will continue to default to B-mode.

• Statistics: now proper handling of negative temperatures under Linux.

[2021-02-09]

github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/releases/tag/1.23

lolMiner 1.23

lolMiner 1.22 & 1.23 are Linux only releases that targets improvements of the performance of the zombie mode in the Linux specific code. Therefore the yesterday released version 1.21 will remain the recent release for Windows. Miners that do not have a card using the zombie mode can safely ignore this update - it will behave identical to 1.21.

Changes (from 1.22)

• Reduced the amount of needed host memory when running many cards in zombie mode. Will resolve issues when there is a high number of card. If 1.22 works good for you, but 1.23 is unstable stay at 1.22.
• Slightly improve zombie mode performance on future epochs above 387.

lolMiner 1.22

Release Note:

lolMiner 1.22 is a Linux only release that targets improvements of the performance of the zombie mode in the Linux specific code. Therefore the yesterday released version 1.21 will remain the recent release for Windows. Miners that do not have a card using the zombie mode can safely ignore this update - it will behave identical to 1.21.

Changes (from 1.21)

• Significantly improved the performance of zombie mode on RX 400 and RX 500 GPUs in Linux, especially for low zombie tune values between 0 and 4 and rather high epochs. Performance increases by 7-11% on epoch 393 (--4g-alloc-size 4080 on a RX 580. 4G) and 15-20% on epoch 400. Re-tuning using the auto-tune is recommended. Also this version might draw a bit more power, but with approximately same total efficiency.

lolMiner 1.21

Changes (from 1.20)

• slightly improved the performance of Linux zombie mode on Polaris GPUs on medium tune stages (needs re-tuning from previous settings)
• increased range of accepted zombie tune parameter for GPUs with high interconnect bandwidth
• slightly decreased GPU load of Polaris GPUs during DAG build
• Added more control about handling cards that are detected to be non-working any more. Use parameter --watchdog off/exit/script to turn off any action, exit the miner with a specific exit code or to run an external script. See detail description on the 1.21 release page
• Nvidia cards that experienced a OpenCL driver error (e.g. "CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES" will now also trigger the watchdog with the configured effect.
• The --ethstratum parameter can now take two options separated by a ',' to give different options in case the dual or split mining mode is used.
• The dns resolving and the connection attempt can now timeout (after 10 seconds each) and will re-try to connect afterwards. This fixes an issue when a pool went offline and the following connection attempt takes indefinitely much time. Each timeout event contributes to the counter that will trigger switching to fail-over pools.
• New option --apihost (default 0.0.0.0) which controls to which host address the api binds. Use 127.0.0.1 to restrict api access to only your computer, 0.0.0.0 is equivalent to everyone can access when rig is reachable on the used apiport. IPV6 ip addresses should be supported, but is untested.

Fixes

• Fixed a issue that might cause the rig to drop to 0 hash rate on epoch changes - including changes with activated ZIL caching
• Fixed the pool hash rate reporting not working correctly in dual & split stratum modes
• Fixed the dual stratum connection not picking up the correct worker name when --worker is used
• Fixed miner not loading Ethash / Etchash kernels on Tahiti and Hawaii GPUs when using older then end 2017 drivers.

Note on Watchdog use

There are different reasons why a card might crash and drop to 0 mh/s or g/s or sol/s. Often this happens when the card is slightly too much undervolted, but other problems like heat are possible. Additionally the OpenCL driver of Nvidia cards sometimes crashes with a CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCE error - this is rather a software then a hardware thing and will be fixed soon.
Anyways: Once a card is crashed some cards - mostly AMD cards - need a system reboot to get the faults card working again. Other cards - mostly Nvidia - just need a closing of the miner program - a few seconds wait time - and then are fine to get going again.
Therefore the crashed card detection now allows three different options to proceed with a crashed card or driver:

--watchdog off
This will do nothing except for printing a message. If only a single card did crash and not the whole driver this means the other cards will continue mining.

--watchdog exit
This will close the miner with a exit code of 42. This can be picked up by the .sh or .bat script that did start the miner (an example is provided in mine_eth.sh and mine_eth.bat) so the miner will restart after some seconds of pause. This is recommended option for Nvidia cards.

--watchdog script
With this option the miner will call an external script (default path is current working directory and there emergency.sh / .bat), which can be configured with --watchdogscript. The moment the script is called the miner itself will exit. The script needs to take care about rebooting the rig or informing the OS what to do. Since this was the default behavior in previous versions it also is the default. In case the script can not be found, an error will be printed and the miner will continue as with --watchdog off.

[2021-02-07]

github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases/tag/0.19.10

• (API) Add ability to pause individual GPUs via API (see pause API handler in readme)
• (API) Add GPU PCI address to summary handler
• Add --script-exit parameter to execute a script upon miner exit

Bug fixes:

• Some user scripts specified in --script-start, --script-epoch-change etc. fail to execute
• GPU is idle error
• (Linux) Miner fails to start on some linux distros with TREX: ... error

[2021-01-27]

github.com/develsoftware/GMinerRelease/releases/tag/2.44

• fixed compatibility issues with ezil.me pool when no rig name passed (this bug appeared in v2.43)

[2021-02-03]

github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v6.8.1

Notes

• RandomX Benchmark 🆕
• KawPow release notes
• Stay tuned about updates, follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/xmrig_dev
• Configuration wizard
• Management panel for miners
• For NVIDIA CUDA mining support, use version with cuda10_2 suffix or any regular version with CUDA plugin.

v6.8.1

• #2064 Added documentation for config.json CPU options.
• #2066 Fixed AMD GPUs health data readings on Linux.
• #2067 Fixed compilation error when RandomX and Argon2 are disabled.
• #2076 Added support for flexible huge page sizes on Linux.
• #2077 Fixed illegal instruction crash on ARM.

2021-02-02

ERGO (ERG) nvidia miner

github.com/mhssamadani/Autolykos2_NV_Miner/releases/tag/1.0.1

[2021-01-31]

github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/releases/tag/0.6.4

+ Added algorithm 'autolykos2' (Ergo) for CPU/GPU mining, fee 1.25%

• Performance increase on 'phi5' algorithm on CPU's with AVX2
• Removed devfee for 'cryptonight_heavyx' algorithm
• Bug fixes

github.com/technobyl/CryptoDredge/releases/tag/v0.26.0

• Add KawPow Algorithm
• Add Chukwa-v2 Algorithm
• Fix MTP issue related to 'invalid device symbol'
• Support NVIDIA Ampere (RTX 30XX)
• Add --temperature-limit and --temperature-start options
• Add off flag to Nimiq optimizer (--optimizer off)
• Avoid c-ares dependency on libnsl
• Remove no longer supported algorithms. Check Readme for more information

[2021-01-29]

www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html

MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 Beta 5 (build 16047)

• Added NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture support:

• Added new fan control 3.0 API support

• Added new integrated OC Scanner API support, please read below to get more information about new OC Scanner implementation

• Updated bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application:

• Starting from 455.xx drivers family, NVIDIA OS Scanner is no longer implemented as a separate software component redistributed with each AIC partner's overclocking software. Now NVIDIA OC Scanner is integrated into the driver and third-party software can natively access it via NVAPI. Such implementation simplifies the process of OC Scanner maintenance for NVIDIA, it is no longer necessary to ship updated software components to AIC partners and re-release each partners' software when something needs to be changed inside OC Scanner from NVIDIA side. MSI Overclocking Scanner supports both implementations of NVIDIA OC Scanner API:

• Old legacy implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner via separate software components for NVIDIA Pascal and Turing architectures for pre-455.xx drivers family

• New integrated NVAPI based implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner for 455.xx and newer NVIDIA display

• drivers

• New NVAPI based OC scanner implementation features the following changes and improvements:

• Automated overlocking support for both core and memory clocks

• OC Scanners's results are now persistent. It means that once the scanning process succeeds, NVIDIA driver internally saves optimized voltage/frequency curve and overclocked memory clock and apply them as new system defaults after reboot, even if you close or uninstall overclocking application. Now there is new "Revert" button inside MSI Overclocking Scanner, which allows you to revert overclocked curve and memory clocks to their real defaults

• Manually adjusted clock/frequency curve stability testing functionality is deprecated and no longer available

• Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30x0 series graphic cards

• Added new MSI Ampere and Indigo skins by Drerex design

• Added experimental support for Intel 10th generation CPUs

• Added native NVAPI based implementation of absolute GPU power monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs

• Altered synchronization mutex name for AMD SNM registers access in AMD Ryzen temperature monitoring implementation

• Fixed abnormally high PCIE bus usage value monitored on NVIDIA GPUs after display driver crash and recovery or on Optimus

• platforms when discrete GPU is sleeping

• Added workaround for AMD driver bug causing short display flicker during applying new fan settings on some multi-monitor or single monitor high refresh rate display configurations

• Now MSI Afterburner is forcibly disabling Zero RPM when applying new fixed fan speed in order to bypass AMD driver bug

• preventing fan control from working when Zero RPM mode is enabled on some systems. If Zero RPM is working properly on your system and you still want to keep it enabled when adjusting fan speed, you may disable forcible Zero RPM override with power oriented switch in application configuration file ow MSI Afterburner is displaying the minimum allowed fan speed in software fan curve editor window on Overdrive 8 capable AMD GPUs. The latest AMD drivers will not allow you to set fan speed below this limit, that’s by design of driver AMD ADL components are loaded by absolute path now to prevent possible DLL hijacking.

• Tightened IO driver access policy, the driver can no longer be accessed by users with no administrative rights RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.0. This version introduces plugins architecture and brand new visual overlay editor plugin, we strongly recommend you to try it if you’re advanced user and want to customize your OSD beyond the possibilities of MSI Afterburner’s internal OSD layout editor.

• MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 beta 5 will additionally contain one minor functionality upgrade for AMD 6800/6900 users: now it internally switches "Tuning control" to "Manual" mode automatically, so it is not necessary to do it yourself in Adrenalin control panel. And of course, it will contain updated RTSS 7.3.0 Beta 10 bundled with it.

[2021-01-26]

PhoenixMiner 5.5c is officially released

bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.0

• Added native kernels for AMD RX6800 and RX6900 GPUs. These are faster than the generic kernels and produce a lot less stale shares
• Updated kernels for AMD Polaris, Vega and Navi GPUs that are slightly faster and use less power than before when mining ETH. To use these updated kernels, you need to use drivers 20.5.1 or later under Win10, or 20.10.x or later under Linux
• The Nvidia mining cards (P106, P104, etc.) can now use straps and hardware control options (power limit, memory overclock, max temperature, etc.) under Windows
• Added support for the latest AMD Windows driver 21.1.1 (still, we don't recommend using the 21.1.1 driver yet - we had some instability issues with it even when just idling on the desktop!)
• Added support for AMD Linux drivers 20.45-1164792 and 20.45-1188099. Use this drivers only if you have RX6800 or RX6900 GPU. WARNING: Vega and Navi GPUs won't work with these drivers!
• Automatically set -ttli instead of -tmax when the later is not supported by the driver. This will throttle down the GPUs when they reach the specified temperature to avoid overheating
• Added new -mcdag parameter to reset the memory overclock on Nvidia cards during DAG generation. This may allow you to set higher memory overclock on your Nvidia cards without risking corrupt DAG buffer, which can lead to excessive number of incorrect shares. Use -mcdag 1 (by default the value is 0, which means turned off) to use this new feature.
  Under Linux -mcdag 1 will execute provided by the user shell script named daggen.sh (if present in the current directory) for each Nvidia GPU, passing the GPU index as the first argument, and PCIE bus ID as second argument. The miner will then wait for about 7 seconds before starting DAG generation to allow the script enough time to reset the memory overclock.
• The -tt parameter is now strictly for controlling the fan behavior. E.g. -tt 60 sets auto-fan speed with target temperature 60C; -tt -70 sets fixed fan speed 70%; and -tt 0 turns off the fan control. All these can be specified per GPU.
• There is a new -hwm parameter that allows controlling the frequency of the hardware monitoring, which was also done by -tt in the previous versions of PhoenixMiner
• Other small improvements and fixes

[2021-01-26]

github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v6.8.0

• RandomX Benchmark 🆕

• KawPow release notes

• Stay tuned about updates, follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/xmrig_dev

• Configuration wizard

• Management panel for miners

• For NVIDIA CUDA mining support, use version with cuda10_2 suffix or any regular version with CUDA plugin.

v6.8.0

• #2052 Added DMI/SMBIOS reader.

  • Added information about memory modules on the miner startup and for online benchmark.

  • Added new HTTP API endpoint: GET /2/dmi.

  • Added new command line option --no-dmi or config option "dmi".

  • Added new CMake option -DWITH_DMI=OFF.

• #2057 Improved MSR subsystem code quality.

• #2058 RandomX JIT x86: removed unnecessary instructions.

[2021-01-19]

github.com/todxx/teamredminer/releases/tag/0.8.0

Team Red Miner v0.8.0

Biggest release in a long while with rewritten ethash kernels and new mining modes for all gpu types!

Users are highly(!) recommended to take a few minutes to read the 0.7-to-0.8 migration guide and the new ethash tuning guide.

Key highlights:

• Polaris: Efficiency and slight hashrate increase. B-mode reintroduced for added hash. B-mode must be enabled with --eth_aggr_mode or --eth_config=Bxxx.

• Vega 56/64: greatly improved base kernel for efficiency. New B-mode that can shave off additional 1-2W on top of the A-mode kernel. B-mode must be enabled manually with --eth_config (--eth_aggr_mode does not apply). Tuning numbers have changed - do NOT keep your old static --eth_config values.

• Radeon VII: huge boost with its new C-mode but requires a special Linux setup. Can now do 100 MH/s on most air cooled VIIs. See tuning guide.

• 5700/5700XT: can shave off as much as 8-9W(!) of power using the new B-mode and dropping core clk+voltage. B-mode now the default mining mode. Unless you retune your core clk+voltage you will see a tiny power draw increase instead and not benefit from the upgrade, so read the migration guide.

• 5600XT: new B-mode has a much smaller effect. A-mode remains the default mining mode. See new tuning guide for more details.

• The dag cache is NOT compatible with the new B/C-modes. ETH+ZIL switchers have to choose between caching the epoch 0 dag and using the new mining modes.

• Ethash 4GB kernels NOT rewritten in this release, performance remains the same as in 0.7.x.

Example performance differences between 0.7.21 and 0.8.0:

Polaris
Nitro+ 580 8GB Samsung, core 1150@840mV, mem 2100@840mV, ref 30

Version Mode Tuning Hashrate Power Diff vs 0.7.21

Vega 56/64
Vega 56 ref Samsung, A-mode 1065@850mV, B-mode 1000@850mV, mem 950@850mV, TRM timings

Version Mode Tuning Hashrate Power Diff vs 0.7.21

Radeon VII
Radeon VII Hynix, core 1600MHz@881mV, mem 1000MHz with timings

Version Mode Tuning Hashrate Power Diff vs 0.7.21

5700/5700XT
Red Devil 5700XT Micron A-Mode 1400@725mV, B-Mode 1245@675mV, Mem 912 MHz

Version Mode Tuning Hashrate Power Diff vs 0.7.21

[2021-01-20]

github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases/tag/0.19.9

• Add ability to execute custom scripts upon certain events with new parameters:

  --script-start

  --script-epoch-change

  --script-crash

  --script-low-hash

• (ethash, kawpow, octopus) Add --dag-build-mode parameter to fine tune DAG build mode (mostly to help with various stability issues, see readme for details)

• Allow non-existent GPU indices passed in to --devices / -d parameter: the miner will display a warning message but will continue mining using the GPUs it could find)

• Cosmetic changes: improve error descriptions, display block number when mining solo at some pools (2miners)

Bug fixes:

• (ethash, kawpow, octopus) Stability regression for Pascal GPUs

• Mining pool difficulty is not always updated in the summary report (#131)

NOTE: if you experience stability issues when mining ethash right at the start or upon epoch change, e.g. some GPUs fail start with GPU is idle or NVML: can't get GPU# errors, try running with --gpu-init-mode 1, it will force sequential GPU initialisation and reduce the load on your hardware (set to 2, 3, etc to indicate how many cards may be generating DAG in parallel)

[2021-01-23]

github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/releases/tag/1.20

Changes (over 1.19)

• Significantly improved Ethash mining speed on R9 390 (+6 mh/s on stock settings compared to 1.19) and Etchash speed on R9 290.

• Added new split & dual mining options. This allows more freedom or better latency and stability on ETH+ZIL dual mining as well as split mining, i.e. let some cards mine ETH while other (3 and 4G) cards mine ETC. Read instructions on usage here:

  https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/blob/master/dual_and_split_mining.md

• The archives for ZIL example files now contain examples how to bypass the ZIL pools. Also an example configuration for ETH / ETC card split is provided.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with 4G cards crash on mining ETC when trying to falsely enter zombie-tune.

• Fixed R9 380 cards not start mining Beam

• Fixed "Address already in use" API bug in Linux (that incidentally got introduced in 1.19)

About the split mining

There are two new splitting modes. Read here for configuration:
https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/blob/master/dual_and_split_mining.md

a) For ETH+ZIL or ETC+ZIL:
Usually when mining ZIL you need to mine ETH on the same pool or you need to rely on a pool proxy forwarding mechanism implemented by the pool. The first case restricts restricts your mining to a single pool while the latter might have the disadvantage of a worse ETH mining latency or pool forwarding instabilities. lolMiner 1.20 and up allow to bypass the situation by adding a second stratum connection that will pick up your ETH (or ETC) shares and bring them directly to the pool you like, while the ZIL shares will be send during the ZIL shard epochs to the ZIL pool.

b) For mining an other algorithm with your 4G cards:
Usually miners allow using only one algorithm at a time. With lolMiner 1.20 the miner starts supporting to create two connections to your favorite pools and mine two algorithms within the same miner instance. Concretely this mode was build to mine ETCHASH on some GPUS while others stay on ETH.