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@psychocrypt psychocrypt released this 17 Nov 20:30
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2.6.0
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This release contains cryptonight_heavy and small OpenCL-AMD optimisations.

Pre-compiled binaries for Linux are back.

Config files from 2.5.X are compatible and 2.4.X or older are NOT compatible to this release.

Changelog:

  • AMD: speedup cryptonight_heavy division #2045
  • Topic amd refactoring #2070
  • change load order for backends #2071

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 2.6.0 Build Checksums

compiled by: psychocrypt

# released compressed binaries

$ sha1sum 
176d916ab729d265c48349587e90bbd44732fa4f  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu_cuda-nvidia.tar.xz
538e65ed28be735fbd9ecd84aa3f955e66bf859a  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu_opencl-amd.tar.xz
7ecfe6971ccc706317311f02040a8788087f4976  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu.tar.xz
ec11aedb4f201627eebc4c1f885c9d48427f227e  xmr-stak-win64-2.6.0.7z
4d68c75bf1c754577f8d85009f712bd8459f212b  xmr-stak-win64-2.6.0.zip

$ sha3sum 
2a01d08c5861a0d00d8be3392e99c699351188d182190c44101f43c2  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu_cuda-nvidia.tar.xz
4bdc34978435f35e1fad006a917daa365d63b50d9b2bbcbf0c0ae501  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu_opencl-amd.tar.xz
be607a4a0b5b06428bdf43aa636fd194904d537531eb8edff281b9d1  xmr-stak-linux-2.6.0-cpu.tar.xz
c7e75bb107babab24e9d21d8fc231c929fe9de9f9ad9cdcf3bf8f8b6  xmr-stak-win64-2.6.0.7z
8089e51fe59459f67c105fc02164a8b2d805018efb7d44f658ad770f  xmr-stak-win64-2.6.0.zip

$ date
Sat Nov 17 21:21:43 CET 2018
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