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Releases¶
16.4.11 (Current)¶
Support Ethereum mining on AMD RDNA2 GPUs (e.g. 6700)
Filename
Platform
SHA256 checksum
bminer-v16.4.11-2849b5c-amd64.tar.xz
Linux x64
0671f3f282d1cbf8bab574ae56eb88dbf24515b7ced26614fdad476eed1ac8e1
bminer-v16.4.11-2849b5c-amd64.zip
Windows x64
c49ac5190fd9d4d2a13c118b9556948ebfc4882ca61ff2f87ce842a099ebd95d
bminer-lite-v16.4.11-2849b5c-amd64.zip
Windows x64
dd2ec27840f8e5602eb31cecaae539e388abc35bd1df8c66fb04a3d1fc6cb6ab
16.4.10¶
Improve the performance of ETH mining in LHR mode
Fix bugs in LHR mode
Filename
Platform
SHA256 checksum
bminer-v16.4.10-1884bde-amd64.tar.xz
Linux x64
d7136b5b8ea81d839bd5237294f3743314f8834f2e34b348e3fef14d348e5543
bminer-v16.4.10-1884bde-amd64.zip
Windows x64
1c8b9524f36ba15a284f1113230b2ee93fd69eedf6b813d4f748cda83f71eb2e
bminer-lite-v16.4.10-1884bde-amd64.zip
Windows x64
ab9dfdf4a2829343ec38a245ca87d94ec2e8c65899c985cb004c9cdd63a707b7
16.4.9¶
Improve the performance of Ethereum mining on Ampere GPUs.
Filename
Platform
SHA256 checksum
bminer-v16.4.9-c80288d-amd64.tar.xz
Linux x64
a8462a195fbc964f39f59d004a116ba8ba119af22fb1208b38559e02a8d416d6
bminer-v16.4.9-c80288d-amd64.zip
Windows x64
76aab8725227babb16e3b0027591e4803b2566ec9234aa9d217a571542ea046b
bminer-lite-v16.4.9-c80288d-amd64.zip
Windows x64
3be70aa6437e266becd93298818dae95fbe59cb3de7525be23d34fa0738136b2
16.4.8¶
Fix bugs when running on Ubuntu 20.04
16.4.7¶
Support Ethereum mining on AMD RDNA GPUs (e.g. 5700)
Enable LHR mode to unlock part of the performance of LHR GPUs (e.g. GTX3060)
Improve energy efficiency for Ethereum on the Polaris/Vega architecture
16.4.6¶
Improve performance for Conflux mining on the Turing / Ampere architecture
Fix compatibility issues on Windows
Improve energy efficiency for Ethereum on the Polaris architecture
16.4.5¶
Fix compatibility issues with Etherum mining pools.
16.4.4¶
Fix compatiblity issues with ETH pools that use the ethproxy protocols (e.g. sparkpools)
16.4.3¶
Fix bugs that lead to high rejection rates in the AMD Ethereum solvers.
16.4.2¶
Fix crash in NVIDIA Etherum miner.
16.4.1¶
Improve performance on mining ETH on AMD 4G cards.
16.4.0¶
Support mining ETH on AMD 4G cards via the -ethash-allocation parameter.
16.3.7¶
Support NVIDIA 30 Series Graphics Cards
Fix crash in NVIDIA Etherum miner
16.3.6¶
Improve the performance of the Conflux miner.
16.3.5¶
Fix compatibilties issues of various Conflux pools.
16.3.4¶
Fix compatibilties issues of various Conflux pools.
16.3.3¶
Improve the performance of the Conflux miner on Turing GPUs.
Fix compatibilties issues of the Ethereum miners.
16.3.2¶
Retire the support of the Tensority algorithm.
Initial support for the Conflux PoW algorithm.
Reduce the rejection rates when mining Ethereum.
16.3.1¶
Enable tuning memory timings for Ethash on NVIDIA GPUs via the "-fast" option
16.3.0¶
Support 6G cards for the Cuckatoo32 algorithm.
Initial support for ETH mining on AMD RX 5500/5600/5700.
Fix compatibility issues when mining ETH on 4G cards.
16.2.12¶
Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
16.2.11¶
Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
More fixes on fidelity issues on GRIN (both Cuckaroo29z and Cuckatoo32).
16.2.10¶
Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
Fix fidelity issues for GRIN.
16.2.9¶
Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
16.2.8¶
Support the Cuckaroo29z algorithm for the GRIN hardfork.
Various performance improvements on the AMD ETH miner.
16.2.7¶
Improve performance for the BeamHashIII algorithm.
Reduce rejection rates for all miners.
16.2.6¶
Fix compatibility issues with Beam mining pools.
Fix compatibility issues on Windows.
16.2.5¶
Improve performance of the BeamHash III miner.
Fix critical issues that the BeamHash III miner computes invalid solutions.
Reduce the rejection rates of the Ethereum and ProgPOW miners.
16.2.4¶
Fix critical issues that Bminer fails to connect to the pools under Windows.
Fix the miscalculations of the targets for Qitmeer.
16.2.3¶
Support the Cuckaroo29m hardfork for Qitmeer.
Retire the CKB miner.
Fix compatibility issues when mining Ethereum on Nicehash.
16.2.2¶
Improve the performance of Ethereum mining on AMD GPUs.
Retire the ZEC miner.
Improve stability of the Cuckatoo32 miner.
Support automatic transition to BeamHashIII.
Improve compatibility with Windows.
16.2.1¶
Fix compatibility issues with some Raven mining pools.
16.2.0¶
Improve the performance on mining Aeternity / BFC.
Initial support for mining SERO / Raven.
16.1.1¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m.
Support Qitmeer.
16.1.0¶
Fix fidelity issues on Cuckaroo29m.
Support for BFC and Cuckatoo32.
Improve stability of ETH mining.
16.0.7¶
Retire the supports for XVG, DCR, and VBK.
Initial support for mining Ethash as well as dual mining Ethash and Handshake on AMD platforms.
16.0.6¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
Fix the regression that the Cuckatoo / Cuckoo miners failed to start.
Fix the performance regression of Cuckaroo29m under Windows.
Fix the compatbility issues on Windows system.
16.0.5¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
16.0.4¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
Reduce the rejection rate of the Cuckaroo29m miner.
16.0.3¶
Improve performance and stability of the Cuckaroo29m miner.
Fix fidelity issues of the Cuckaroo29m miner.
16.0.2¶
Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.
16.0.1¶
Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner fails to start on Turing-based cards or cards that have only 4G memory.
Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner submits shares that have low difficulty.
Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.
16.0.0¶
Initial support for the Cuckaroo29m algorithm.
15.8.7¶
Improve the performance of Beam bminer for RTX cards.
Experimental support for dual-mining Ethash and the Eaglesong algorithm.
15.8.6¶
Improve the performance of automatic tuning of dual mining parameters.
15.8.5¶
Add an API to stop the miner.
15.8.4¶
Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm on RTX cards.
15.8.3¶
Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm.
15.8.2¶
Fix the regression on the BeamHashII fails to start on GTX 2060.
15.8.1¶
Support for the BeamHashII algorithm.
15.7.6¶
Fix the regression that the Cuckaroo29d miner fails to start on RTX-series cards.
15.7.5¶
Improve the performance of the miner of Cuckatoo31.
Increase the dynamic ranges of -intensity for older machines to fully utilize the GPUs (at the cost of a slight performance loss)
Known issues: Some users have reported Cuckaroo29d might be broken on RTX series of cards.
15.7.4¶
Improve the performance of the miner of Cuckaroo29d / Aeternity.
Support 4GB cards for Cuckaroo29d.
Fix the regression that the Cuckaroo29d miner fails to start on Windows.
15.7.3¶
Improve the performance of the Cuckaroo29d miner.
15.7.2¶
Improve the stability of the Cuckaroo29d miner.
Reduce the CPU usage of Cuckaroo29d miner.
Support 5GB cards for Cuckaroo29d.
15.7.1¶
Improve the performance of the Cuckaroo29d miner.
Fix the issue that the Cuckaroo29d failed to start for Turing-based cards.
15.7.0¶
Support the cuckaroo29d algorithm.
15.5.3¶
Fix invalid shares ETH + VBK when using multiple cards.
15.5.1¶
Fix the regression that Cuckaroo29 fails to work on Turing cards
Significantly improve the performance of ETH / VBK dual mine.
15.5.0¶
Improve the performance of the Cuckatoo algorithm.
Support dual-mining ETH and VBK.
Add the parameter -version to output the version and exit.
15.4.0¶
Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
Improve compatibility on Windows
Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems
15.3.1¶
Slightly improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
Reduce CPU usages of Cuckatoo31.
Fix the regressions of Cuckaroo29 on RTX cards.
Fix the incorrect reportings of Ethash speed to the mining pools.
15.3.0¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29 by 5%.
Slightly improve the performance of Cuckatoo31.
Improve compatibility on Windows.
15.2.0¶
Improve performance and stability of Cuckatoo31.
Slightly improved performance of Ccukaroo29.
Reduced the chance of reject and stale shares of CC29/CC31.
Support RTX 2080/2070 for Cuckatoo31. RTX 2080 expected speed 1.45G/s.
15.1.0¶
Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
Experimental support Cuckaroo29 on AMD cards (ROCM only).
Improve compatibility on Windows.
Fix the regression on UI dashboard.
Reduce reject rate of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
15.0.2¶
Improve the fidelity of Cuckaroo29 on 1060 / P106 / 1070.
15.0.1¶
Fix compatibility issues on Windows
15.0.0¶
Support 8G cards for Cuckatoo31 (except for Windows 10).
Improve stability of the Cuckatoo31 solver.
14.3.1¶
Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29.
Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares of Cuckatoo31.
Support Nicehash for both Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
14.3.0¶
Improve the performance for Cuckatoo31.
Support 2080Ti for Cuckatoo31.
Reduce the CPU usages for Grin / Aeternity by default.
Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares for Cuckatoo31.
14.2.0¶
Experimental support for Cuckatoo31 on 1080Ti.
Fix the regression where ETH dual mine fails to start on Windows.
Improve performance on mining Aeternity.
Support tweaking the CPU usage for mining AE / Grin with the -intensity flag.
14.1.0¶
Improve performance of AE / Grin on Turing cards.
Improve performance of AE / Grin on lower-end CPUs and Windows platforms.
Support mining beam on leafpool and nicehash.
Fix the regression where /api/v1/devices is occasionally unresponsive.
14.0.0¶
Improved Grin/AE mining speed.
Print fidelity information. It is a measure of the luck/miner correctness. Overtime, the number should be close to one. For miners running over two hours, the fidelity should be at least greater than 0.95.
Improved multi-card performance on Windows
Improved the miner fidelity by 8%-10%. You will not see big local difference but you will see roughly 10% higher speed on the pool side.
Reduced reject chance.
Fixed equihash issue.
Fix the regression that the equihash miner fails to start on Windows.
13.2.0¶
Improve the performance of Turing GPUs when mining Grin.
Reduced rejected share chance for all cards.
13.1.0¶
Support mining Grin / AE with 4G or 5G of video memory. (P104 only on Linux)
13.0.0¶
30% performance improvement on Grin and AE.
Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares.
12.2.0¶
Optimize CPU usage.
Fix compatibility issues with grin-pool.org and grinmint.com.
Experimental support for Turing GPUs.
Allow bminer to run with older NVIDIA drivers.
12.1.0¶
50% performance improvement on Aeternity.
10% performance improvement on Grin.
Support 8GB cards on Windows 10.
Support SSL connections for Grin.
12.0.1¶
Experimental support mining Grin
100% performance improvement on the beam miner compared to 11.4.1.
Various bug fixes
11.4.1¶
Support AMD Crimson driver
11.4.0¶
Experimental support mining beam with AMD cards (Require Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 or above)
11.3.0¶
Improve the performance of Aeternity for 6GB cards
Support mining beam over beepool
Output solution/s instead of nounce/s when mining beam
11.2.0¶
Experimental support for beam
11.1.0¶
Experimental support for Aeternity
11.0.0¶
Support ETH/BTM dual mine
10.7.0¶
Fix -devices value option bug in 10.6.0.
Fix a bug in GET /api/v1/status/device api.
10.6.0¶
Require CUDA 9.2 or above for this version.
Substantially increase BTM mining speed, e.g. 4650 on 1080Ti now.
10.5.0¶
Require CUDA 9.2 or above for this version.
Substantially increase BTM mining speed, e.g. 4500 on 1080Ti now.
Maximum temperature is monitored and controlled more precisely, so that GPU cards are better protected.
Support BTG mining on zhash.pro pool.
10.4.0¶
Add -pers auto option to support pools (e.g. zergpool.com) to automatically switch personalization string for equihash144,5 mining.
10.3.0¶
Make API robust and accessible even when GPUs are hung.
Support ethproxy protocol pools, such as dwarfpool, to display worker names.
10.2.0¶
Support all the other Equihash 144,5 based coins besides BTG, using equihash1445 scheme and -pers config.
10.1.0¶
Fix performance regression in BTM mining.
10.0.0¶
Support mining Zhash (Equihash with parameter set 144,5) based coins.
Substantially increase BTM mining speed again (up to another 30%).
Support reported hashrate feature on ETH pools.
9.1.0¶
Substantially increase BTM mining speed (up to 30%).
Fix editing problems of .bat files on windows.
Add scheme suggestions in scripts for ETH mining.
9.0.0¶
Experimental support for mining BTM.
Optimize the performance of automatic tuning in dual mining mode.
Start REST APIs much faster than previous versions.
Improve compatibility of mining Ethereum on Nicehash pool.
8.0.0¶
Support a dual mining mode for Ethereum (ETH, Ethash) and Decred (DCR, blake14r) / Verge (XVG, blake2s) without affecting Ethereum mining performance.
Automatically tune mining performance in dual mining mode.
Support dual mining mode in launcher and dashboard GUI.
Add scripts to download third party software OhGodAnETHlargementPill to improve Ethereum mining performance on GTX 1080/1080Ti.
Introduce new REST APIs to display stratum/solver/device status.
7.0.0¶
Experimental support for mining Ethereum.
Various usability improvements on the launcher GUI.
Create a lite distribution without the launcher GUI.
6.1.0¶
Fix potential regression caused by 6.0.0 for GPUs mounting on risers.
Improve mining algorithm stability.
6.0.0¶
Failover server supports. Supply multiple uris (separated by commas) via the -uri option to enable the failover support.
A launcher GUI for Windows.
Reduce reject rate caused by stale shares.
0.3-0.5% performance improvement depending on card models.
Fix inaccurate metrics at the start of Bminer.
Reduce CPU usage the start of bminer.
Support miner.reconnect().
Experimental support for miningrigrentals.
A new option -no-runtime-info to disable runtime information collection.
5.5.0¶
Show the fan speed in both console and UI.
Fix compatibility issues for pool.miningspeed.com.
Fix a bug that causes Bminer fails to start on Windows under some configuration.
5.4.0¶
Fix a reconnection issue in the network layer.
Show additional statistics in console.
Allow cross-domain requests to access the API.
Fix the compatibility issue with docker.
Introduce the option -share-check to make the time of recovering from no accepted shares configurable.
5.3.0¶
Experimental support for EthOS / Ubuntu 14.04.
Support AMD K10 CPUs.
Automatically restart hanged network connections.
Improve compatibilities with mining rigs with more than 8 cards.
5.2.0¶
Introduced the option -logfile to append the logs into a file.
Minor optimization on Windows for cards that are mounted on the risers.
Improve compatibility for NiceHash.
5.1.0¶
Support NiceHash.
Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.
5.0.0¶
Minor performance improvement for GTX 1060.
Fixed performance regressions in 4.0.0 on Windows.
Optimization on the networking layer.
Show GPU ID in case of hardware errors.
Introduced the option -no-timestamps which suppresses the timestamps in the logging messages.
4.0.0¶
Minor performance improvement.
Support older CPUs like Core 2 Duo.
Support mining rigs that have more than 8 GPUs.
Support luckpool.org.
Removed the polling option.
Introduced the option -max-network-failures which allows Bminer to exit after consecutive network failures.
Various improvement on the UI.
Localization for Russian and Chinese.
3.0.0¶
Minor performance improvement.
Disable CPU polling by default.
Introduce a Web-based dashboard.
Support slushpool.
2.1.0¶
Add the -polling option to make GPU polling configurable.
Improve the stability of the network connections.
First public release for Linux.
2.0.0¶
First public release.
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