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@fireice-uk fireice-uk released this 03 Feb 18:14
· 250 commits to master since this release
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This release adds support for Cryptonight-GPU, a new FPGA-proof PoW for Ryo.

Warning! CN-GPU can use up to 75% more power than CN-Heavy, or 33% more than CN-V8. Please make sure your card is adequately powered and cooled.

This release also fixes a long-standing problem with some AMD drivers and implements support for the new Turtle PoW variant.

Changelog:

Necessary prerequisites for Windows

If the application does not start properly, please make sure that Visual Studio libraries are installed.
You can download them from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746572

Anti-virus detection

All miners are detected as viruses. Please add the binary as an exception.

Pre-compiled Binaries and Checksums

Please use the Developer PGP Key's to verify the integrity of the precompiled binaries.

The pre-compiled Windows binaries uses OpenSource Software hwloc, OpenSSl and microhttpd: https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-dep/releases/tag/v3
The pre-compiled Linux binaries uses OpenSource Software

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XMR-Stak 2.8.0 Build Checksums

compiled by: psychocrypt

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$ sha1sum 
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25cb8cd6142a661ca4422aa9af0ed2d426ee60d7  xmr-stak-win64-2.8.0.7z
c92a3e1dfe19520e37d4d7392b9b8e57953532a3  xmr-stak-win64-2.8.0.zip

$ sha3sum 
32de2c2d73cbaa2d4d464eda75b94a5bfb41c8253d81966ffbb3d4e3  xmr-stak-linux-2.8.0-cpu_cuda-nvidia.tar.xz
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d1375d85ccf37e2df7077f7a1b7f171348750b32c8ad26bca675ba25  xmr-stak-win64-2.8.0.7z
5dc93f9b4213c0ccd14b89e5056e85cd48f189153f59c13b7dfb3766  xmr-stak-win64-2.8.0.zip

$ date
Sun Feb  3 18:48:36 CET 2019
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