This release supports the cryptonight_v8 POW of the upcoming Monero fork on 18th Oct 2018.

Use the currency setting monero for automatic switching on the next fork.

A bug which broke AMD HD6XXX GPUs is fixed.

We dropped NVIDIA Fermi support in the precompiled Windows binaries. The minimum required CUDA Version for NVIDIA GPUs is 9.0.
The precompiled binaries includes OpenSSL 1.1.1 for a better TLS compatibility.
You can now use with AMD Rocm 1.9.X.

Config files from 2.5.0 are compatible and 2.4.X or older are NOT compatible to this release.

We would like to thank the community for their tests and contributions to xmr-stak.
Changelog:

    Add console warning on GPU error. #1956
    update AMD install docu #1954
    Remove dead code #1950
    Add missing test for cryptonight_lite #1949
    fix broken AMD OpenCL compile #1945 #1951
    reduce blocking during metric update #1940
    fix access uninitialized value #1928