lolMiner

A git repository for lolMiner release versions

Recent Changelog:

lolMiner 0.9.8

• Improved GRIN-C29M solver, Better performance (+7-12% depending on card) and smaller memory use (fits 6G now)
• Added support for Radeon 5500 (XT) and 5600 (XT) on all Grin algorithms
• Added BEAM support for Radeon 5500, 5600 and 5700 series (Needing 19.30 and newer driver)
• Fixed driver incompatibilities with some newer driver versions (e.g. Linux 19.50)
• Renamed GRIN-AD29 to MWC-C29D to mine cuckarood-29
• Added a small penalty to C32 in auto switcher - it seems the solver has not perfect fidelity and the penalty will make it switch a bit later to cover this. Will hopefully be fixed in next version
• Removed 14 cycle fidelity from overview - new C29M solver does not output it properly.

lolMiner 0.9.6

• Significant improvement on GRIN-C29M performance (+6-7% on 580 and Vega cards, +10% on Navi)
• Significant improvement on GRIN-C31 and GRIN-C32 solver (~ +6% on all AMD cards)
• Added a 16G GRIN-C32 solver (Approx 20% faster on Radeon VII, Vega FE and 570 16G)

lolMiner 0.9.5

• Added support for Grin CuckarooM-29 (hard fork on Jan 16th) on 8G AMD GPUs, use --coin GRIN-C29M to mine with it.
• Improved C31 performance on 8G cards by ~5% (Windows: relatively to 0.9.3, Linux: relatively to 0.9.4)
• Navi on Windows now runs same kernels as in Linux
• Slightly lowered energy use of C31 / C32 solver
• Added aliases GRIN-C31 and GRIN-C32 for the Cuckatoo solvers (the old names still exist and continue to work)

lolMiner 0.9.4

• New GRIN-AT31 performance code for Vega (+7%) and Navi (+12%). Requires amdgpu-pro 18.50 or newer or ROCm 2.10 driver
• Experimental support for Cuckatoo-32 (use --coin GRIN-AT32) on 8G AMD cards (see further notes on releases page)
• Windows release postponed due to incompatibilities with the new performance codes.

lolMiner 0.9.3

• Extended GRIN-AT31 compatibility to older drivers (18.x +)
• Improved GRIN-AT31 performance on ROCm (RX 470/480/570/580/Vega/VII)
• Introduced early job cancellation for GRIN-AT31+ (improves hash on pool side, see further release notes on releases page)
• Deeply reworked kernel scheduler
• Fixed GRIN-AT31 kernel bugs (improving stability and fidelity)
• Fixed Bug: Vega FE loading 8G instead of 16G GRIN-AT31 solver in Windows
• Fixed Bug: Watchdog did not call right file in Windows
• Added --disablewatchdog 1 parameter to disable the 0 sol/s / 0 g/s detection

lolMiner 0.9.2

• Significant performance improvement of GRIN-AT31 on 8 / 16G cards (+5% on Polaris & Vega, +10 on Navi)
• Experimental support for GRIN-AT31 and Polaris, Vega and VII using AMD ROCm drivers
• Added range checks to GRIN-AT31 code (improves better stability)
• Added function to call external watchdog scripts in case a GPU fails during mining (see release notes)

Usage of Watchdog Script

In case the miner detects no action of a GPU for at least a minute it will call the included scripts "reboot.sh" (Linux) or "reboot.bat" (Windows) and display a warning message in red. Afterwards the counters are reset. The scripts can be used to trigger a reboot of the rig or to call any other watchdog actions. The miner itself will take no further action and continue operation on the remaining cards.

lolMiner 0.9.1

• Added GRIN-AT31 solver for 16G AMD cards (Better performance on Radeon Vega FE, Radeon VII and Sapphire RX 570 16G)
• Updated GRIN-AT31 solver for 4G AMD cards (Better performance on Fiji based GPUs, Polaris 10 4G)
• Fixed a bug causing too low pool hash on GRIN-AT31
• Added experimental GRIN-AT31 support for AMD Navi (8G), AMD Fiji (4G) and AMD Hawaii (4G / 8G) GPUs

Edit: support for Fiji was broken, A fix can be found here: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-preview/releases/tag/0.9.1hotfix

lolMiner 0.9

• Significant performance improvement for GRIN-AT31 on 8G AMD cards (+22% on Polaris to 30% on Radeon VII)
• Disabled 16G solver for GRIN-AT31 (the 8G is faster at the moment)
• Reduced Grin stale shares
• In command line lolMiner now accepts --pool address:port pattern
• Fixed a bug with the API crashing when accessed by Chrome based browsers
• Fixed a bug in EXCC stratum not passing number of submitted shares to the API

lolMiner 0.8.7

• Added support for Beam Hash II on older AMD cards (R 9 200 / 300 4 & 8G cards; R9 280(X), HD 79x0 with 3G). Note that the auto-switcher is only working with at least 4G, for the 3G cards please use --coin BEAM-II manually on fork height.
• Fixed an issue with Genesis Network (GENX) missing in lolMiner 0.8.x

lolMiner 0.8.6

• Added support the BEAM hard fork on block 321321 (approx Aug15th).
• Fixed a bug with the BEAM stratum back end in case of formatted job descriptions (e.g. new Nicehash platform)

lolMiner 0.8.4

• Fixed a 0 sol/s issue for Zelcash
• Reduced Zelcash memory usage to 2.9 GBytes
• Fixed a bug with the stratum for 125/4, 144/5, 192/7 and 96/5 in case the pool sends a very low job id.

lolMiner 0.8.3

• Added 16 GByte solver for Cuckatoo-31 (GRIN). Better performance and less energy use for Radeon VII, Radeon Pro Duo Polaris, Vega Frontier and RX 570 16GByte

lolMiner 0.8.2

• Added support for ZelHash (EquihashR 125/4/0) for the hard fork (July 2nd)

lolMiner 0.8.1

• Added support for NiceHash on Grin
• Fixed a bug with some pool software (e.g. grinmint.com)
• Reduced number of stale shares submitted

lolMiner 0.8

• Added support for Grin (Cuckatoo-31) for 4G (Slean) and 8G cards. The parameter is "--coin GRIN-AT31"
• Grin cycle finding is completely done on GPU, the miner has almost 0 CPU load (on AMD, Nvidia has some due to OpenCL back end)
• Stratum bug fixes (NiceHash) for 144/5, 192/7 and 96/5
• Fixed AUTO192_7 configuration
• Improved general stability
• Added a distinct 1G / 3&4G / 6&8G kernel for mining MNX (Windows, Linux had this in 0.7.1)

lolMiner 0.7

• Added support for Beam (BEAM, modified Equihash 150/5), only tuned for AMD cards
• Added TLS support for stratum. The default is off for all coins except Beam but on for Beam. This adds a new parameter --tls to control TLS on / off (see manual on usage)
• Some bugfixes and reworks in the stratum code. It is more stable now
• Complete rework of the mining back end. Lower CPU load for AMD graphic cards.
• GPU sorting changed. Its now sorted by PCIE bus address. This addresses are also shown at startup and in API.
• Integrated all kernel files to the executable
• Lowered fee of ALL algorithms / coins to 1%
• Added --help parameter (needs formating)
• API update interval is now fixed to 10 seconds
• API now smooths the performance data over approx one minute

Coin specific changes:

• Removed workbatch parameter for MNX, its obsolete now
• Removed 96/5 Nvidia specific kernel
• Changed Safecoin (SAFE) from Equihash 144/5 to 192/7
• Added Vidulum (VDL), Equihash 192/7