New version -> 2.9.1Main thing in this new point release is support for the pooled GBT mining protocol. This is once again a large chunk of new code and carries with it the attendant risks of new instability so I'm leaving 2.8.7 up for download. The GBT implementation is my own from scratch, not using an existing implementation. luke-jr helped debug a few things to do with how the protocol worked since no one else seems to understand it.
Note that I have serious reservations about recommending GBT as significantly advantageous for the miner (in terms of performance) unlike stratum. See my post here as to why:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1317574Human readable changelogSupport for GBT mining protocol.
Minor stratum tweaks, bugfixes and improvements.
Full changelogVersion 2.9.1 - November 6, 2012
- Reset work flags to prevent GBT shares from being submitted as stratum ones
after switching.
Version 2.9.0 - November 6, 2012
- Add endian swap defines for where missing.
- Only retarget stratum shares to new pool diff if diff has dropped.
- Remove resetting of probed variable when detecting GBT.
- Count lost stratum share submits and increase message priority to warning.
- Only retrieve a new block template for GBT pools that are the current pool.
- Show which pool untracked share messages have come from.
- Add management for dead GBT pools.
- Count lost shares with stratum as submit stale lost.
- Discard record of stratum shares sent and report lost shares on disconnection
since they will never be reported back.
- Swab, don't just swap the bytes in the GBT target.
- Change status window message for GBT connected pools versus LP.
- Generate a gbt work item from longpoll when required to set new block and
message appropriately.
- Use existing pool submit_old bool from gbt data.
- Retrieve a new block template if more than 30 seconds has elapsed since the
last one to keep the data current and test the pool is still alive.
- Update GBT longpollid every time we request a new longpoll.
- Manage appropriate response codes for share submission with GBT.
- Allow the longpoll thread to start with GBT and only set the longpollid once.
- Correct last few components of GBT block generation courtesy of Luke-jr.
- Use correct length for offsetting extra nonce and remaining data.
- Flip all 80 bytes in the flip function which was wrongly named flip256 for its
purpose.
- Calculate midstate for gbt work and remove now unused variable.
- Use a standard function for flipping bytes.
- Insert the extra nonce and remaining data in the correct position in the
coinbase.
- Remove txn size debugging and enlarge gbt block string to prevent overflow.
- Remove varint display debugging.
- Build varint correctly for share submission and sleep 5 seconds before
retrying submit.
- Make gbt_coinbase large enough for submissions, swap bytes correctly to make a
header from GBT and encode the number of transactions in share submission.
- Store the fixed size entries as static variables in GBT in binary form,
byteswapping as is required.
- 32 bit hex encoded variables should be in LE with GBT.
- Target and prevblockhash need to be reversed from GBT variables.
- Construct block for submission when using GBT.
- Use same string for debug as for submission and make string larger to cope
with future GBT messages.
- Skip trying to decipher LP url if we have GBT support.
- Store all the transaction hashes in pool->txn_hashes instead of separating
txn0 and correct generation of merkle root, fixing memory overwrites.
- Hook into various places to generate GBT work where appropriate.
- Create extra work fields when generating GBT work.
- Generate header from correct hashing generation of the merkle root for GBT.
- Generate the merkle root for gbt work generation.
- Create a store of the transactions with GBT in the minimum size form required
to generate work items with a varied coinbase.
- Create a function that generates a GBT coinbase from the existing pool
variables.
- Extract and store the various variables GBT uses when decoding gbt work.
- Check for invalid json result in work_decode.
- Decode work in separate functions for getwork vs gbt.
- Check for the coinbase/append mutable in GBT support to decide whether to use
it or not.
- Add a gbt mutex within the pool struct for protecting the gbt values.
- Convert work decode function to prepare for decoding block templates.
- Check for GBT support on first probing the pool and convert to using the GBT
request as the rpc request for that pool.
- Make the rpc request used with getwork a pool variable to allow it to be
converted to/from gbt requests.
- Changes to build prototypes to support building on FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 amd64
- Free old stratum_work data before replacing it
- There is no need for addrinfo any more.
- server and client sockaddr_in are no longer used in struct pool.
- Merge pull request #322 from luke-jr/bugfix_stratum_tmpwork
- Set sshare id and swork_id within the sshare mutex to avoid multiple share
submits with the same id.
- Initialize temporary stratum work
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