What's new in Asteroid 0.9.7 Beta
Feb 17, 2014
- Live coin balance monitoring
- Added new mining engine, sgminer, for scrypt mining
- Can now pick which kernel to use for scrypt mining
- Improvements and bug fixes to community scrypt settings
- Full support for multiple GPUs
- Mac OS X Notification Center support
- Updated mining engine to cgminer 3.12.3
- Devices remember on/off state between launches
- Redesigned pool editing sheet
- Added a command-line options window
- Added international support for non-US number formats
- Reduced CPU usage when Asteroid window is closed
- Added checkbox to turn off autostarting mining
- Added Asteroid log to console window
- Countless bug fixes and tweaks
New in Asteroid 0.9.6 Beta (Jan 22, 2014)
- Adds support for new ASICs (including bitfury, nanofury, and Antminers)
- Updated to latest cgminer engine (still supporting GPU mining though!)
- Rewrote MobileMiner support with better error reporting, keychain support, bugfixes and more
- New device detection and display code
- USB driver conflicts are resolved when detected and relevant
- Fixed scrypt settings recommendations
- Detects previous crashes and offers to send diagnostic logs
- New default intensity values for quicker first-time mining
- Added menu option to semi-permanently disable conflicting drivers
- Fixed bug preventing adding more than one custom pool
- Fixed apparent spike in scrypt hashrates due to a logging bug
- Countless bugs fixed
- Numerous UI tweaks to improve user experience
- Removed BTC value monitoring in preparation for a new, better, feature to debut in 0.9.7
- CPU usage of Asteroid reduced by 60%
New in Asteroid 0.9.5 Beta (Dec 2, 2013)
- Preference window should no longer blank out when entering a bitcoin address
- Recommended settings for litecoin/scrypt have been tweaked with sanity checks
- Fixed scenario where Asteroid would never appear to do anything upon launch
- Added ability to disable FTDI VCP drivers
- Option to disable conflicting USB drivers is now only presented when applicable, and in a unified box
- Added ability to remember choice when disabling drivers
- Adding custom pools should now work as expected
- Fixed some scenarios where the miner would be running but Asteroid wouldn't update
- Added "SHA-256" and "scrypt" wordings where applicable, to highlight how to mine altcoins
- Editing a pool will always load entries from the Mac keychain automatically
- Progress bar is set to previous maximum values on launch
- Reset UI elements to reflect changes when switching between coin types
New in Asteroid 0.9.4 Beta (Nov 26, 2013)
- New: Improved Mavericks compatability checks, Asteroid will turn drivers on and off to get your devices working
- Updated: Now using cgminer 3.7.2, which is the latest version still supporting GPU mining
- Updated: List of default pools has been updated for quicker and more reliable connections
- Updated: Accepted/rejected shares are shown based on diff1 difficulty, providing more quantitative and relevant numbers
- Updated: Shares readout now abbreviates when shares get more than 10,000, so that more fits in one line
- Fixed: ASICs would tend to kill Asteroid's status readout if present, this is now fixed
- Updated: Removed ability to look at device list until after the miner has started (to be re-introduced in a future version)
New in Asteroid 0.9.3 Beta (Sep 3, 2013)
- Fixed: USB-based miners (particularly ASICMINER USB Block Erupters) produce ~40% more work than before (check your pool's stats)