ChangelogVersion 7.3.4 (2020-02-15)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Firmware version 1.0 for Antminer S17 and T17.
- Updated mining profile configuration in Awesome Miner to support the new firmware version
Features
- Network Scan improved to allow adding found ASIC miners by hostname instead of IP address
- Network Scan user interface improved and more of the scan settings are saved
Mining software
- XmRig 5.6
- CryptoDredge 0.23
- Nanominer 1.8.1
Corrections
- Correction to how accepted and rejected shares from the DevFee pools are excluded from the total number of shares in the miner list
Version 7.3.3 (2020-02-14)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Firmware for Antminer L3+ officially supports Antminer L3++ as well
Integration
- Made more CryptoNight related algorithms available for Yiimp-based pools
User interface
- Updates to control alignments
- Disable access to 'Default pools (via web)' for miners running the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware. Use the SSH method instead.
Features
- Exchange filter on volume can be configured to favor high volume exchanges while still being able to fallback a lower volume exchange if no better exchange is available
Mining software
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.12.3
- RhMiner 2.2b
Corrections
- Correction to display of ASIC chip performance for Antminer T9+ running the Awesome Miner firmware
Version 7.3.2 (2020-02-11)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Exclude the accepted and rejected shares from the DevFee pools in the total number of shares in the miner list
ASIC mining
- Reboot support for Avalon 10 ASIC miners
- Bulk Edit of property for Avalon 10 on External Miners
Features
- Automatic backup of all configuration before upgrading to a new version
Integration
- Changed block explorer for BTC to get bech32 address support
User interface
- New information icon and tooltip design
Mining software
- Bminer 16.0.5
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.12.2
- Nanominer 1.8
- RhMiner 2.2
Corrections
- Correction to setting fan speed for nVidia RTX 2000 on Linux
Version 7.3.1 (2020-02-06)
Corrections
- Correction to wallet balance display for user defined coins with a value specified in USD instead of BTC
- Correction to loading of Tag related actions
Version 7.3 (2020-02-06)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- New firmware release (0.9.9 beta2) for Antminer S17 and T17 available
- Mining Profile configurable for Antminer S17 and T17
- ASIC chip performance display for Antminer S17 and T17
- Mining Profile configurable for Antminer T9+
- Firmware mining profile can be access via the main toolbar of Awesome Miner
ASIC mining
- Improved pool change support for Avalon 10 ASIC miners
- Improved display of the speed of all fans for recent Antminers and Canaan Avalon miners
GPU mining
- System monitoring of disk space will query for free disk space less frequently
- Automatic disable of Windows Update on all mining computers, configurable via the Options dialog, Mining Settings section
- Automatic update of Remote Agents, configurable via the Options dialog, General section
Features
- The API to set coin profitability will also allow for making name changes to a user defined coin
- The Information column can be configured to display the fan speed for ASIC and GPU miners
Integration
- Luxor mining pool
- Nicehash CuckaToo32 pool added
Configuration
- Increased the maximum wait times configurable in the Options dialog, Mining settings
User interface
- Updates to text strings in the user interface to be more consistent
Mining software
- Bminer 16.0.3
- Miniz Miner 1.5t
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.12.0
- XmRig 5.5.3
- Nanominer 1.7.3
- Lolminer 0.9.7, incl. improved algorithm parameter configuration via Awesome Miner
- RhMiner 2.1c
- Gminer 1.96
- SrbMiner Multi 0.3.1
Corrections
- Correction to date display in the benchmark window
- Correction to device selection when using Gminer with both AMD and nVidia
Version 7.2.10 (2020-01-21)
GPU mining
- Improved compatibility for reading GPU power usage on recent nVidia driver versions
Mining software
- Gminer 1.95
- Bminer 16.0.1
- Lolminer 0.9.6
- Nanominer 1.7.1
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.11.5
- SrbMiner Multi 0.3
Corrections
- Correction to sorting by temperature in the miner list
Version 7.2.9 (2020-01-17)
Mining software
- Gminer 1.94
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.11.4
Corrections
- Correction to scenario when creating a new user defined coin
- Ensure all new Online Services pools are enabled for the profit switcher by default
Version 7.2.8 (2020-01-16)
Features
- Cloning of Clocking Profile Groups and Profit Profile Groups via the Options dialog
Integration
- Nicehash Cuckaroom29 pool added
- Removed Mining Pool Hub CryptonightV4 pool from profit switcher
Mining software
- Bminer 16.0
- Gminer 1.93
- Lolminer 0.9.5.1
- Nanominer 1.7
Corrections
- Correction to power usage display for Antminer L3+ running the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
Version 7.2.7 (2020-01-14)
ASIC mining
- Support for pool changes on Avalon 10 miners where the standard management interface isn't available
GPU mining
- Added Gminer dual mining support
- Possible to configure empty personalization string for algorithms and software where a default value is used
Features
- Awesome Miner can update coin exponential factors and algorithm overrides without having to install a new software version
Integration
- Improved Mining Dutch mining information
Mining software
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.11.3
- XmRig 5.5.1
- Z-enemy Miner 2.4
Corrections
- Correction to profit switching calculations for dual mining
Version 7.2.6 (2020-01-09)
GPU mining
- Support variables in the command line field for a pool
- The configuration file for the mining software NanoMiner and XmRig can be modified via the Properties of a Managed Miner
Integration
- Nicehash Eaglesong pool added
- Nicehash SHA-256 AsicBoost pool added in addition to the standard SHA-256 pool
- Updated block explorer for ETC wallet balance
Mining software
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.11.1
- Phoenix Miner 4.9c
Corrections
- Correction to nVidia GPU initialization on Linux
Version 7.2.5 (2020-01-02)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Improved support for Antminer S9 running in Dual mode
- Open the Antminer kernel log via the Firmware log tab for a selected miner
GPU mining
- Delay increases for Power Limit for the temperature controlled Power Limit feature
Mining software
- Nanominer integration improved to display CPU information when mining Monero
- XmRig 5.5
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.10.7
- GMiner 1.92
Changes
- Dynamic update of coin statistics will not enforce certificates for HTTPS connections
Corrections
- Correction to NbMiner dual mining hashrate
- Correction to Actual 24h display for Prohashing pool
- Correction to 'Default Pools via web' configuration for Antminer Z9
Version 7.2.4 (2019-12-20)
GPU mining
- Improved GPU name display for Linux systems
- Improved Radeon VII overclocking support
Features
- User accounts can be configured as either Enabled or Disabled, in order to temporary disable user access to the web interface
User interface
- Pool selection dialog for Change Pool and Add Pool operations includes worker name information
- For Miner Group temperature summary, use the ASIC chip temperature if configured to be displayed in the Status column
Mining software
- Nanominer integration improved to display CPU information when mining Monero
- XmRig 5.3
- GMiner 1.88
- SrbMiner Multi 0.2.0
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.10.4
Version 7.2.3 (2019-12-14)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Improved unlock support for Bitmain firmware for Antminer S17/T17
- Awesome Miner Antminer firmware 0.9.6 is available for S17 and T17. As this is also a preview version, the overclocking must be made via the Antminer web interface, Miner Configuration -> Chain Freq Settings. A good starting point for overclocking of Antminer S17: 725MHz, 19.4V to get 70TH/s. For T17: 900MHz, 19.5V to get 55TH/s.
Features
- Dynamic update of coin statistics can convert the exchange rate even if specified in other coins than BTC
- Mining Software Definitions can be updated automatically. Configurable in the Options dialog, General section.
Mining software
- Gminer 1.86
- XmRig 5.2
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.10.2
- Lolminer 0.9.3
- TT-miner 3.2.2
Changes
- A Managed Profit Miner will no longer automatically start when resetting failed pools for the miner
Corrections
- Correction to Gminer Cuckaroo29 algorithm parameter
- Correction to 2miners pool balance
- Correction to worker name display in the Information column for a scenario where the main pool is unavailable
- Correction to Eaglesong algorithm exponential factor for coin statistics
Version 7.2.2 (2019-12-05)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- There will soon be a firmware for running two Antminer S9 in dual mode with a total hashrate of 20-23TH/s at 1500W. Intended for lowering the power costs for mining with S9. Some hardware modifications are required. Please contact us for more details.
ASIC mining
- Removed support for the option 'Any computer' when configuring Antminer API access, as it's considered less secure
- Improved display of error message (authentication failures and similar) when performing certain ASIC related operations
- Detect and display name of more Antminer types
Features
- Device Temperature trigger introduces configuration for how long the temperature conditions must be fulfilled. Configurable to look at the device with either the highest or lowest temperature.
Integration
- Included support for more coins for Mining Pool Hub balance display
Mining software
- Gminer 1.83
- XmRig 5.1.1
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.10.0
- Lolminer 0.9.2
Version 7.2.1 (2019-12-02)
Integration
- Nicehash RandomX pool for Monero
Mining software
- Gminer 1.81
- TeamRedMiner 0.6.1
- XmRig 5.1
Corrections
- Correction to Grin31 revenue calculations when WhatToMine is used as source
- Correction to Monero revenue calculations
Version 7.2 (2019-11-29)
GPU mining
- Benchmark dialog will show preliminary hashrate during the benchmark
CPU mining
- CPU temperature and frequency can be displayed even if Awesome Miner or Remote Agent isn't running with Administrator privileges
- CPU temperature is displayed in the miner list in the same way as for GPU and ASIC miners
- CPU temperature is displayed for each CPU in the CPU tab for the selected miner
- Improved support for reading the temperature for AMD Ryzen
User interface
- The list of configurable items are now displayed with multiple columns in the Options dialog for Managed Templates, Clocking Profile Groups, Profit Profiles and Profit Profile Groups.
Mining software
- Gminer 1.81
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.11
- Lolminer 0.9.1
Corrections
- Correction to profit switcher for External Miners running the Awesome Miner firmware
Version 7.1.6 (2019-11-19)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Preview versions of Awesome Miner firmware for Antminer S17 (incl. S17 Pro) and T17. The Mining Profiles are not yet available, but the firmware will be feature complete in the near future
ASIC mining
- The operation to reboot Antminers (via web) can also be launched with the progress dialog to see the result of the reboot operation
Features
- Recently triggered rules can be displayed via the toolbar Tools -> Rule History
- Bulk edit of update interval for External Miners
- Dynamic update of the coin property 'Value in USD' using web sources
Mining software
- Gminer 1.75
- NbMiner 26.1
- Miniz Miner 1.5s
- SrbMiner Multi 0.1.7 beta
Changes
- Disable buttons for pool operations for the DevFee pools when using the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware, as these pools cannot be modified
- Always show password mask characters for the registration code in the Options dialog
Version 7.1.5 (2019-11-14)
Integration
- Removed HashRefinery pool as it's no longer active
Mining software
- SrbMiner Multi 0.1.6 beta
Corrections
- Correction to profit switcher for External Miners for a scenario with all pools having negative profitability
- Correction to a profit switching scenario when Awesome Miner is launched for the very first time.
- Correction to Remote Proxy communication error
Version 7.1.4 (2019-11-12)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Firmware for Antminer L3+ added
ASIC mining
- Improved matching of the pools reported by an ASIC miner with the pools defined in Awesome Miner
Mining software
- XmRig CPU miner 4.6.1
Version 7.1.3 (2019-11-09)
ASIC mining
- Increased compatibility for the profit switcher to focus on the 10 most profitable pools when rearranging the pool priorities
Mining software
- Gminer 1.73, including support for Ethereum mining on Nicehash and Mining Pool Hub
- SrbMiner Multi 0.1.5 beta
- WildRig Miner 0.20.1 beta
- Nanominer 1.6.2
Corrections
- Correction to a scenario where user defined pools identical to predefined pools could be incorrectly removed
Version 7.1.2 (2019-11-06)
ASIC mining
- Innosilicon A10 support improved
Feature
- Display of average and maximum temperature per group in the Miners tab
- Improved compatibility for processing data responses from dynamic updates of coin properties
Integration
- ProHashing pool
- Stex exchange balance
- TradeOgre exchange balance
- Zergpool pool information to exclude solo mining pools
User interface
- Clocking Profile selection in the Profit Profile has been improved to make more room for the name of the profile
Mining software
- Gminer 1.71
- Z-enemy miner 2.3
- XmRig CPU miner 4.5.0 beta
Correction
- Correction to exponential factor for ZClassic coin calculations
Version 7.1.1 (2019-10-31)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Display of voltage per chain in the ASIC tab of Awesome Miner
GPU mining
- Benchmarking improved to allow using pools that are defined with a wallet in the Options dialog, Profit switching section, but disabled for the profit switcher
- Added additional algorithms
Integration
- Graviex exchange balance
Mining software
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.3.1
- WildRig Miner 0.20.0.3 beta
- SrbMiner Multi made available for the profit switcher
Correction
- User interface correction to the temperature display in the Summary tab when a miner has a large number of devices
Version 7.1 (2019-10-28)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- In addition to the firmware with a mining fee of 2%, another firmware version is made available with a mining fee of 3% where no Awesome Miner license is consumed. This makes it possible to use the 3% mining fee firmware without having to buy Awesome Miner licenses.
ASIC mining
- The feature to update custom cgminer configuration file properties via SSH will allow a custom path to be specified for the file
- Improved compatibility for configuring privileged API access on ASIC miners
- Antminer Z11 firmware from June 28th supported
GPU mining
- Added additional algorithms
Features
- Exchange balance feature to list your account balance for exchanges like Coinbase, Bittrex and Poloniex. Configurable in the Options dialog, Balance section. Displayed in the Balance tab in the main window.
Integration
- Mining Pool Hub pool list updated
- The new Nicehash platform will be displayed as 'Nicehash' instead of 'NicehashNew' as it's the only available platform.
User interface
- The balance tab in the main window uses sub tabs for Pool balance, Wallet balance and the new Exchange balance feature
- Show API identifier in the Properties dialog of Managed Templates
- Improved display of decimals for power efficiency in the Information column
Mining software
- Added mining software: SrbMiner Multi 0.1.4
- Bminer 15.8.7
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.3.0
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.9.1
- Gminer 1.70
- Miniz Miner 1.5r
- Nanominer 1.6.1
- NbMiner 26.0, incl. dual mining support
- PhoenixMiner 4.7c, incl. dual mining support
- T-Rex Miner 0.14.6
- XmRig CPU miner 4.4.0 beta
Corrections
- Correction to profit switching for dual mining if the profit for Ethereum is negative and no dual mining pools are available
- Correction to benchmark of NbMiner
Version 7.0.6 (2019-10-04)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Firmware log file can be cleared via Awesome Miner
- Added configuration of SSH and mining fee region via the Mining Profile configuration (toolbar: Tools -> ASIC Tools)
- Display mining fee information in the Update Firmware dialog
Features
- Define color for coins on the Coins tab (via the context menu)
Configuration
- Make it configurable if passwords should be displayed in plain text
User interface
- Show number of selected miners in the Bulk Edit dialog for miners
- Bulk Edit dialog for External Miners will show current settings for SSH and web related settings
Integration
- Loki coin calculations supported
Mining software
- XmRig CPU miner 4.2.1 beta
- CpuMiner 3.9.8.1
- CryptoDredge 0.22.0
- Nanominer 1.6
Corrections
- Correction to the defined order of custom pools for the profit switcher
- Correction to XmRig API processing
Version 7.0.5 (2019-09-30)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Mining Profiles can be fully configured via Awesome Miner (toolbar: Tools -> ASIC Tools)
Integration
- Nicehash pools URL's updated
- Added Nicehash pool for X16rv2
Mining software
- Gminer 1.67
- Z-enemy miner 2.2
- TT-miner 3.0.9
- CpuMiner 3.9.8
Corrections
- Correction to bulk edit of Command Line for Managed Profit Miners
Version 7.0.4 (2019-09-26)
ASIC mining
- Antminer S15 firmware from August 22nd supported with low power mode configuration (generally not recommended to upgrade to this firmware version due to SSH limitations)
- Revenue trigger improved to better support External Miners
GPU mining
- Added additional algorithms
Integration
- Beam coin statistics via CoinCalculators.io
Mining software
- Gminer 1.66
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.9
- TT-Miner 3.0.6
- T-Rex Miner 0.14.4
Version 7.0.3 (2019-09-16)
ASIC mining
- Innosilicon A9++ Zmaster supported
- OW Miner OW1 supported
- Antminer Z11 firmware from August 26th supported
User interface
- Selecting a filter via the web interface will automatically expand miner groups
Mining software
- Gminer 1.65
- Miniz Miner 1.5q6
- Phoenix Miner 4.6c
Corrections
- Correction to the user interface of the Bulk Edit dialog
- Corrections to the sub group feature
Version 7.0.2 (2019-09-11)
ASIC mining
- Added support for monitoring of Avalon 1041 ASIC
Features
- Rule trigger for pool URL detection can be configured to only consider the currently active pool
User interface
- Improved dark mode display, including the Summary tab, GPU Clocking and temperature color display
Mining software
- NBMiner 25.2
Version 7.0.1 (2019-09-10)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Added setting for Fan check in the Mining Profile configuration
User interface
- Adjusted the green temperature color a bit to increase readability
- Improved dark mode display
Corrections
- Correction to the text output on the Firmware log tab
- Correction to the temperature display for the report saved in the Mining History dialog
- Correction to sorting of sub groups
Version 7.0 (2019-09-09)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Added Mining Profile log as a new tab in the bottom area
- Include the Mining Profile log and Kernel log in in the API Report for a miner to make troubleshooting easier
ASIC mining
- Support for GekkoScience Terminus R606 (except for temperature reporting that isn't supported by this ASIC)
- Bulk edit of the Algorithm property of External Miners
- Frequency will display the actual chain frequency instead of the global target frequency
GPU mining
- Select pools used by a Managed Profit Miner and instruct the profit switcher to ignore the pools for a specified period of time. Available via the new profit switching tab for a selected miner
Features
- The miner group concept is improved by allowing sub groups to be added to groups. Use drag and drop or the context menu item 'Move to group' to move a group into another group.
- A new tab for Groups has been added in both the Windows application and the web interface to display a summary of all miner groups with hashrate, power usage, temperature and profit details
- Note about groups: The new web interface supports the concepts of sub groups and group view, but the classic web interface doesn't
- Colors are used to visualize temperatures. Configurable in the Options dialog, General section.
- Notifications for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area
- Profit switching history for the selected miner is displayed as a tab in the bottom area for more control of how the profit switcher operates
Integration
- The old Nicehash platform has been removed and is fully replaced by the new Nicehash platform. Nicehash will discontinue the old platform on September 10th 2019.
- Note: Review the wallet settings for Nicehash in the Options dialog, Profit switching section
Configuration
- The predefined rule for detecting high temperature will now allow configuration of the temperature source (Standard or Chip temperature)
- Added a setting to disable drag&drop operations in the list of miners. Configurable in the Options dialog, Advanced section
User interface
- The layout of the Summary tab for the selected miner has been improved
- Improved user interface for selection of miners and groups for rules and for user account configuration
- System tools for Managed Miners miners made available via the toolbar Tools
- Improved context menu user interface for ASIC tools and System tools
- The operation to perform a mining software cleanup is added to the System tools menu in the context menu for a miner
- The web interface includes chip temperature display for a selected miner
Mining software
- BMiner 15.8.6
- Gminer 1.62
- XmRig CPU Miner 3.1.1
- XmRig AMD Miner 2.14.6
- XmRig nVidia Miner 2.14.5
- NBMiner 25.1
- Z-enemy Miner CUDA 10.1 support added
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.2.2
Version 6.9.4 (2019-08-29)
Configuration
- Added a new setting to configure how many ASIC miners to connect to at the same time for monitoring information
Features
- The Information column can display the miner unique worker name
- The Information column can display the power efficiency (Hashrate per Watt)
Mining software
- GMiner 1.60
Version 6.9.3 (2019-08-28)
ASIC mining
- Detect incorrect hashrate numbers reported by Antminers and calculate the hashrate in an alternative way
GPU mining
- Added a button on the System tab to restart nVidia NVML monitoring - in case the drivers fail to report power usage
Integration
- BEAM correctly supported with coin statistics
Mining software
- Claymore Ethereum miner 15.0
- BMiner 15.8.4
- LolMiner 0.8.8
- Miniz Miner 1.5q2
Version 6.9.2 (2019-08-23)
ASIC mining
- Support for FutureBit Apollo LTC miner
Integration
- Dynamic update of coin properties improved to support more API data formats
Mining software
- GMiner 1.59
- TT-Miner 3.0.5
Corrections
- Correction to Information column display for Managed Miners
Version 6.9.1 (2019-08-20)
Integration
- Nicehash BeamV2 pool added (algorithm listed as Equihash 150,5,3)
User interface
- Show API identifier in the Pool Properties
- Show current Mining Profile when opening the dialog to change Mining Profile for the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
Mining software
- XmRig CPU Miner 3.1.0
- TT-miner 3.0.3
- GMiner 1.57
- NbMiner 24.4
- BMiner 15.8.3
Version 6.9 (2019-08-15)
Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- The firmware can be automatically downloaded by selecting it from the list in the Update firmware dialog (toolbar: Tools -> ASIC Tools -> Update firmware)
- Firmware for Antminer T9+ added (only for T9+, not for T9)
ASIC mining
- Chip temperature for Antminer S15 and S17 will always display the highest temperature reading per board
GPU mining
- Bulk edit improved to include configuration of Managed Miner property for Administrator Privileges
Features
- A new Information column can be added to the list of miners where a number of predefined properties can be included and displayed. Including details from the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware, uptime, pool worker name and more.
- Create mining pool via context menu for a specific coin on the Coins tab
User interface
- NOTE: The built-in web interface will be set to use the new user interface design by default. The Classic user interface can still be enabled via the Options dialog, Web section - but will be discontinued in the future.
- The coin selection control has been improved and will also allow sorting on either coin name or algorithm name
Mining software
- T-Rex miner 0.13.2
- CryptoDredge 0.21.0
- Gminer 1.55
- XmRig CPU 3.0.0
- Lolminer 0.8.7
- Miniz Miner 1.5p
- BMiner 15.8.1
Corrections
- Correction to colors for chip status when using the Awesome Miner Antminer firmware
- Correction for profit switcher for External Miners when using both the new and old Nicehash platform
Version 6.8.3 (2019-08-08)
Awesome Miner Antminer S9 firmware
- Automatically apply the firmware no matter if the Antminer has signature check or not
- Configure AsicBoost and Full Reboot properties as part of setting the Mining Profile
- Show AsicBoost status on the Pools tab for the selected miner
Corrections
- Correction to setting Mining Profile via Awesome Miner
Version 6.8.2 (2019-08-06)
Awesome Miner Antminer S9 firmware
- Display of chip hashrate details on a new ASIC Chip tab for the selected miner
- Backup and restore of Antminer configuration
GPU mining
- The context menu for a Managed Miner will include a link to the support page for the mining software
Mining softare
- Phoenix Miner 4.5c for Linux
- TT-Miner 3.0.1
- T-Rex miner 0.13.1
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.7
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.2
Corrections
- Correction to power usage display when running the Awesome Miner Antminer S9 firmware
Version 6.8.1 (2019-08-05)
Mining software
- T-Rex Miner 0.13
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.7
Corrections
- Correction to the display of total hashrate per algorithm for the new Nicehash platform
- Correction to Remote Agent reporting Interface Offline for mining software under certain conditions
- Correction to wallet balance feature for better detecting the correct balance property in API responses
- Correction to profit switching when running the Awesome Miner Antminer S9 firmware
Version 6.8 (2019-08-02)
Awesome Miner Antminer S9 firmware
- Better performance and flexible hashrate and power configuration when mining with Antminer S9
- Integrates with Awesome Miner by providing: LED flash, pause and resume mining in a power efficient way, antivirus scan and apply mining profiles (hashrate and power usage).
- The features are available via the ASIC tools menu and as rule actions in Awesome Miner
- Display of power usage
- SSH access to the Antminer
- Mining fee 2%
- Awesome Miner can install this firmware even when the Antminer is locked with signature check and SSH is disabled (contact us for instructions)
- For more information, see the web site:
https://www.awesomeminer.com/antminerfirmware ASIC mining
- Antminer S15/T15 power mode configuration
GPU mining
- GPU power limit control based on temperature, configurable in the Options dialog, GPU Settings section
Features
- Keystrokes can be sent to mining software via the Console tab and also via the rule actons (Configurable via the Miner Command action)
- Miner highlight feature includes 5 additional colors
- Configurable if a double click on an External Miner should open the ASIC miner web interface. Configurable via the Options dialog, General section.
- Improved wallet balance feature to handle more data formats
User interface
- Antminer&ASIC menu renamed to ASIC tools
- Temperature sorting improved for miner list in compact mode
Mining software
- XmRig CPU 2.99.3 beta incl. RandomXL
- XmRig AMD 2.14.5
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.6.2
- Phoenix MIner 4.5c
- Phoenix Miner integration improved to display share information per GPU
- Nanominer 1.5.3
- Nanominer integration updated for RandomHash algorithm
- Bminer 15.7.6
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.1.26
- Z-enemy miner 2.1
Version 6.7.2 (2019-07-26)
User interface
- Show difficulty for each pool in the Pools tab
Mining software
- SrbMiner 1.9.3
- WildRig 0.19.0 preview
Corrections
- Correction to missing file on some Remote Agent installations
Version 6.7.1 (2019-07-25)
ASIC mining
- Added Innosilicon ASIC features for reboot, setting tuning profile, firmware upgrades and password change
- Added support for Antminer Z11e
Integration
- UBQ block explorer updated
User interface
- The GPU Detailed Report dialog can be accessed via the GPU tab
Mining software
- CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.1.24
- Ethminer 0.18.0
- Gminer 1.53
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.6.1
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.6
- Bminer 15.7.4
Corrections
- Correction to Ethminer protocol name for Nicehash and to not add -X parameter
- Adjusted Grin coin calculations after the recent fork
Version 6.7 (2019-07-18)
ASIC mining
- Added support for Antminer Z11j
GPU mining
- Access to mining software command line help via the context menu for a miner
- Added CuckaRood29 algorithm
Integration
- Improved support for the new Nicehash mining platform. The old and new Nicehash platforms can be used at the same time - configurable in the Options dialog, Profit Switching section.
- Improved pool balance display, including support for the new Nicehash platform
- Wallet balance can be configured with a unit adjustment of E-18
User interface
- ASIC tools menu available as a context menu in the miner list
- System tools menu available as a context menu, with easy access to operations like shutdown and Remote Desktop
Mining software
- Nanominer 1.5.2
- SrbMiner 1.9.2
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.6
- Lolminer 0.8.5
- Gminer 1.51
- NbMiner 24.2
- TT-miner 2.2.6
- Bminer 15.7.1
Corrections
- Correction to coin calculations for HUSH and SWAP
- TeamRedMiner command line parameter for cuckatoo31 algorithm corrected
Version 6.6.5 (2019-07-10)
ASIC mining
- API access configuration feature made more flexible to support more ASIC miners than Antminer and Innosilicon, by allowing a path to the cgminer configuration file to be specified
Integration
- Support for the new Nicehash mining platform. To change to the new platform, go to the Options dialog, Profit switching section and enable 'Use new Nicehash platform'. See the Nicehash web site for more details about how to sign up on the new platform.
- Pool balance improved to support more of the predefined pools, incl. Slushpool
- Modify Zpool API calls for balance to be possible to identify and accept by Zpool
User interface
- Show mining software in gray color if a Linux host is selected and the specific mining software isn't supported
Mining software
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.5
- Lolminer 0.8.4
- WildRig 0.18.0
- RhMiner 1.5.3
- Nanominer 1.5
Correction
- Improved detection of XAuthority environment variable on Linux
- Sgminer correction when a user defined command line argument is customized for an algorithm
Version 6.6.4 (2019-07-05)
Mining software
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.4, incl. correction for MTP mining
Corrections
- CcMiner Zcoin Official selectable for the profit switcher
Version 6.6.3 (2019-07-05)
ASIC mining
- Configure API access on Innosilicon A9 and similar miners
Mining software
- Added mining software: CcMiner Zcoin Official 1.1.3 for MTP algorithm
- Gminer 1.50
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.5.2
- CryptoDredge 0.20.2
Version 6.6.2 (2019-07-03)
ASIC mining
- Feature to send custom web commands to an Antminer
Mining software
- Added mining software: NoncerPro 3.0.2
- Nanominer 1.4.1
- Miniz miner 1.4o
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.5.1
- Lolminer 0.8.3
Version 6.6.1 (2019-07-01)
GPU mining
- Native overclocking can be configured to automatically reset all overclocking parameters when a miner is stopped. Configurable via the Options dialog, GPU Settings section.
- AMD Radeon VII supported with monitoring and native overclocking on Windows
Configuration
- Bulk edit of pools
- Improved bulk edit of Managed Miners, to include command line parameters
User interface
- Ctrl+C can be used to copy all selected objects (miners, pools and more) from the lists in the Options dialog
Integration
- Modify Zpool API calls to be possible to identify and accept by Zpool
Mining software
- Lolminer 0.8.2
Version 6.6 (2019-06-29)
ASIC mining
- Improved support for Avalon 921 with display of chip temperature and more details
- Obelisk SC1 second generation supported with hashrate and temperature information
- Improved configuration of Antminer API Access to make it easier to only allow connections from the computer where Awesome Miner is running
- Automatic API Access configuration can be configured to only be applied for specific miners and miner groups
GPU mining
- Improved mining software selection where older mining versions can be selected and the supported nVidia CUDA version can be detected
- Global fan control using a fan/temperature curve with the native overclocking feature. Configurable in the Options dialog, GPU Settings section.
- Remote Agent on Linux will report nVidia driver version and system memory usage
- Mining software definitions can be updated without upgrading the Awesome Miner or Remote Agent version
- GPU clocking groups improved to also support mapping based on the exact GPU name, GPU vendor and PCI Bus Id
- Improved display of AMD GPU information on Linux with vendor and power usage
- Added additional algorithms
FPGA mining
- Blackminer F1 FPGA supported with temperature display
Configuration
- SSH connection timeout configurable in the Options dialog, Advanced section. Default timeout is now set to 8 seconds.
Features
- Added a backup and restore feature to the toolbar Backup (renamed from Import/Export), intended for a complete backup of all configuration data
- GPU miner diagnostics can be configured to run for up to 5 minutes before terminating
User interface
- Network scan improved to display more relevant information about the found miners
- Network scan indicates the number of scanned IP addresses and the number of found miners
- Added additional coin images
- Description for Windows Uptime changed to System Uptime
- Added menu item for launching the web interface for the selected ASIC miner. Available via the toolbar Tools -> Antminer&ASIC.
- Display of total miner commands in queue for External Miners (for large systems only)
Mining software
- Claymore Ethereum Miner 14.7
- Ethminer 0.18.0 rc0
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.2
- T-Rex Miner 0.12.1
- GMiner 1.47
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.4
- SrbMiner 1.9.0
- Nanominer 1.4
- WildRig Miner 0.17.9
Corrections
- Added missing Blake2b pools
- Improved detection of xauthority environment variable on Linux for nVidia clocking
- Improved detection of when 'allcoins 1' needs to be added to the Claymore Ethereum miner command line
- Initialize GPU clocking information when Remote Agent on Linux is starting, to speed up clocking operations
- Correction to algorithm command line argument for user defined mining software
- Correction to a timing issue where a miner group in Awesome Miner could be lost
- Correction to user defined mining software customization for Remote Agent on Linux
- Correction to z-enemy miner integration on Linux
Version 6.5.5 (2019-06-12)
ASIC mining
- Adjust the reported pool priority for BW L21 ASIC
GPU mining
- Improved detection of environment variables for nVidia commands via Remote Agent on Linux
Features
- Added a way to detect duplicated IP addresses for External Miners in the Options dialog, External Miner section
Mining Software
- CcMiner KlausT 1.25
Corrections
- Correction to exact IP address match in the Find Miner dialog
- NbMiner console correction for Remote Agent on Linux and disable watchdog
- Correction to the console tab to correctly clear the display when selecting a miner without any console output
Version 6.5.4 (2019-06-11)
ASIC mining
- Improved support for recent revisions of BW L21 ASIC
GPU mining
- Show nVidia fan speed as RPM (in addition to percent) when running Remote Agent on Linux
User interface
- Dark mode for the main window of Awesome Miner. Configurable in the Options dialog, General section.
Mining software
- TeamRedMiner 0.5.1
- WildRig Miner 0.17.5
- T-Rex 0.11.1
Corrections
- Correction to GPU selection for TeamRedMiner
- Correction to the use of screen command on Linux
Version 6.5.3 (2019-06-06)
GPU mining
- Added setting to specify if Ctrl+C should be used to stop a mining process, configurable in the Options dialog, Mining Settings section
- Show GPU vendor name for nVidia devices when running Remote Agent on Linux
Features
- Access to formatting of hashrate using MH/s and similar units via the Customize Progress Field feature
User interface
- Added additional coin icons
- Display number of miners in the Mining History dialog, Mining Performance section
Rules
- Increased the maximum delay allowed to be configured for SSH actions
- Time trigger to display name of day in the trigger summary if only a single day is selected
API
- Added API to set Electricity Price via API
Mining software
- TeamRedMiner 0.5
- WildRig Miner 0.17.4
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.2.3
Version 6.5.2 (2019-06-03)
Features
- Access to miner power usage via the Customize Progress Field feature
- Added a new setting to keep older console output logs (generated when running mining software as Administrator)
Integration
- Added support for URL handlers to add External Miners and setting up mining software via web links
User interface
- Native overclocking controls available in a new tab GPU Clocking for the selected miner to give faster access to overclocking operaitons.
Mining software
- CryptoDredge 0.20.1, including support on Linux
- GMiner 1.45
- Nanominer 1.3.4
- TT-Miner 2.2.5
Corrections
- Correction to benchmark feature where it in some scenarios could stop running
- Correction to NbMiner implementation on Linux
- Correction to feature for setting Antminer default pools via the web interface when using the Antminer S9 March 2019 firmware
Version 6.5.1 (2019-05-31)
User interface
- GPU Clocking Profiles can be applied via the context menu in the miner list
- Display number of selected miners in the Miners tab
- Display number of selected miners and number of successful and failed operations in the Antminer Control dialog (for operations like Configure API Access and Default Pools)
Mining software
- Added NbMiner support on Linux
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.1.1
Corrections
- Corrected hashrate unit displayed in the Mining History dialog
Version 6.5 (2019-05-30)
ASIC mining
- Feature to display MAC address of External Miners without using ARP cache. Can be enabled via the Options dialog, Mining Settings section.
GPU mining
- Native overclocking supports fan/temperature curve for AMD
- Native overclocking includes better fan support for AMD Vega
- Native overclocking supports Reset command to be added to a clocking profile
- Clocking profiles can be added and modified in a more flexible way via the Options dialog, GPU Clocking Profiles section
- Added diagnostics support for mining software running with Administrator privileges
- Added X25x algorithm
Features
- The Mining history dialog includes a feature to export the data to a text file
- The Mining history dialog includes hashrate information per miner
- The application taskbar icon can be highlighted if there are active notifications. Configurable in the Options dialog, Notifications section.
- Copy and paste of hashrate, power usage and software selection between profit profiles
- Exchange filtering allows user defined exchanges to be specified in case the exchange name isn't found in the predefined list
Integration
- Added Block Explorer for JEM
API
- Include the property Exponential Factor for a coin in the API api/coins/stats.
Rules
- Device power usage trigger has been updated to take user defined additional power per miner into consideration when the trigger condition is for an entire miner
User interface
- Include PCI Bus ID on the GPU mapping page
- Benchmark window allows scrolling during benchmark and improves progress display
- Web interface: Display performance and revenue information per group
- Web interface: The miner list will not automatically expand all groups if there are multiple groups and a larger number of miners.
- Web interface: Improvements to miner list when viewing from mobile device
- Web interface: Sorting by column in the miner list
- Web interface: Better column width used for notifications
Mining software
- Adjusted Phoenix Miner to use PROTO 1 by default for ProgPow (BCI) mining
- Claymore Ethereum Miner 14.6
- Z-enemy miner 2.0
- SrbMiner 1.8.9
- WildRig Miner 0.17.3
- CpuMiner-Opt 3.9.0.1
- TT-Miner 2.2.4
- Gminer 1.44
- Nanominer 1.3.2, including adjustment to Ethereum hashrate unit
- T-rex 0.11.0
- XmRig 2.14.4
Corrections
- Correction to power usage reporting for systems with a mix of nVidia GPU's based on TCC and WDDM
- Correction to how processes running with Admininstrator privileges are closed
- Correction to Claymore Ethereum and Phoenix Miner wallet address parameter to ensure it's not empty
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Version 6.0 (2018-11-28)
ASIC mining
- Support for up to 200,000 ASIC miners in a single system using multiple instances of Awesome Miner Remote Proxy.
- Global SSH credentials configurable in the Options dialog, Mining Settings section.
- External Miners can be configured with custom SSH credentials to override the global SSH credentials settings
- Reboot ASIC miners (via SSH) available as a menu item via the toolbar Tools -> Antminer & ASIC
- Any SSH commands can be executed for the selected miners via the toolbar Tools -> Antminer & ASIC -> Run SSH commands
- Antminer operations using SSH (for example Default Pools and Configure API Access) will use either the miner specific SSH credentials or the global SSH credentials if the username and password fields are left empty
- Avalon miner hashrate reporting to use 1 minute average values to reduce large hashrate variations reported by the ASIC
- Support for Antminer S9 running Braiins OS firmware, including a feature to blink the LED of the ASIC miner and display of per-device frequency
GPU mining
- Support for up to 25,000 GPU miners in a single system.
- New setting to force CUDA device order to follow the GPU PCI Bus ID. In case of mixed nVidia GPU models in the same system, this can resolve issues to the GPU selection order.
- Add GPU selection to more mining software
- Diagnostics includes information about MS VC++ runtime versions installed, as these runtimes are required by some GPU mining software
- The profit switching setting to ignore pools with no accepted shares can now be configured for up to 20 minutes (was 10 minutes previously)
- The Benchmark dialog allows configuration of if disabled algorithms should be part of the benchmark
- Added additional mining algorithms
Features
- New Mining History feature to give easy access to information about recent mining activities including mining properties like software, coins and pools. Requires Premium Edition or above, except for the data representing the last 15 minutes.
- Significant speed optimizations for the Performance History feature
- Performance History also includes estimated revenue and profit
- Performance History export to CSV allows selection of data to export
- Overview feature in the Options dialog, Security section, to display an overview of miners assigned to user groups.
- Coin Properties dialog allow override of coin exchange rate, while keeping the difficulty and reward as reported from the coin statistics provider
Integration
- Pool Balance feature supports mining pools based on MPOS like suprnova.cc
- New algorithms added to the predefined Yiimp-based pools will automatically be available if the algorithm is known to Awesome Miner
- Import pools for all algorithms by pointing to the API for a Yiimp-compatible pool, making it easier to add custom Yiimp-based pools. The feature is available via the Options dialog, Online Services section.
- Added NLPool.nl to the profit switcher
- BlockMasters pool configurable for region
- Zpool region added for South East Asia
- Mining Dutch Lyra2REv2 profit unit adjusted to latest API changes
- Nicehash blake2b is now the new sia version of blake2b
- Block Explorer configuration for wallet balance to allow balance unit of 1E-7 and 1E-24 to support a wider range of number formats
- CoinCalculators.io setting for filtering of exchanges will still include coin values for coins without an exchange
- Siacoin algorithm changed from Blake2b to Sia, which is a modified version of the Blake2b algorithm
API
- Added HTTP API for returning the assigned miners and users accounts for each user group (/api/groups/details)
- Added HTTP API for working with Pool Groups (/api/poolgroups)
- A random HTTP API key can be generated with a button click in the Options dialog
Rules
- Triggers looking at hashrate and accepted shares can now be configured for looking back at statistics for up to 20 minutes (was 10 minutes previously)
- The predefined trigger for Accept Progress will by default be set to 16 minutes (was 8 minutes previously) on new installations
- The Check Statistics trigger can compare the hashrate of a miner with a percent value of the hashrate in the profit profile
- The SSH action will correctly use the delay per miner configuration. A new setting for delay per batch of miners are also introduced.
- The SSH action can be configured to execute multiple lines as a single command
User interface
- Display of power usage per miner group and as a total for all miners. Configurable via the Options dialog, General section.
- Display of power usage for the selected Profit Profile on the Coins and Online Services tabs
- Improved user interface for configuring predefined pools for the profit switcher and for custom wallets for miners
- Added links to getting started guides on the first wizard page
- Additional coin images added
- Improved context menu for miner list with more icons and better grouping of menu items
- Renamed Performance History to Mining History Export
- View Details dialog improved to allow command line information to be selected and copied to clipboard
- Combine the Antminer and ASIC toolbar buttons into a single button with grouped menu items
- Introducing a new section Mining Settings in the Options dialog, including many settings previously available in the Advanced section
- When selecting a pool from a Managed Miner or the Profit Switching settings, the new Actions button includes a feature to edit the pool
Mining software
- Added mining software: JCE GPU Miner 0.33b6
- Added mining software: Gminer Cuda Miner 1.08
- CryptoDredge 0.11.0
- T-Rex miner 0.8.2
- Z-enemy Miner 1.25
- WildRig Multi Miner 0.13.2
- TeamRedMiner 0.3.8
- SrbMiner 1.7.1
- JCE CPU Miner 0.33f
- BMiner 10.7
- Sgminer-kl 1.0.9
Corrections
- Improved detection of nVidia GPU driver version
- Correction to scenario where user defined Online Services are being removed, to ensure no old statistics are listed on the Online Services tab
- Correction to the Profit Profile properties, Override section, where the feature to add a new custom pool didn't work correctly in some scenarios
- Correction to both profit switching and manual pool change with TeamRedMiner where the pool changes wasn't performed correctly
- Correction to Profit Profile configuration where an algorithm has been disabled globally and then re-enabled
- Correction to Detect Pool trigger
- Updated download links for ProgPow miner
- Minor corrections
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Version 5.0 (2018-05-08)
- GPU mining
--- GPU selection in the Properties for Managed Miners and Managed Profit Miners to only include specific GPU's when mining
--- Display power usage on GPU tab when using Ccminer
--- Adjustment to XMRig miner command line by forcing either Cryptonight or CryptonightV7 as the auto detection in XMRig isn't always working
--- Automatically set command line argument --gpu-platform for Sgminer when AMD OpenCL platform isn't the only platform
--- Improved benchmarking to apply GPU clocking according to profit profile settings
- ASIC mining
--- Antminer X3 Cryptonight ASIC support
--- Antminer B3 Tensority/Bytom ASIC support
--- Antminer T9+ chip temperature support
--- Innosilicon A8+ Cryptonight ASIC support
--- DragonMint B29 ASIC miner temperature support
--- Show Antminer chip temperature on the ASIC tab in addition to PCB temperature
--- Show both standard temperature and Antminer chip temperature on the Summary tab
- Configuration
--- Prevent Windows from going into sleep mode while the application is running
--- Managed Templates can be configured with multiple exceptions in the new section Template settings
--- Managed Miners supports the same IP variables for worker name as External Miners
--- Additional settings for specifying duration of benchmarks
--- Bulk edit for configuration of algorithms in profit profiles
--- Bulk edit for Managed Miners and Managed Profit Miners
--- Improved bulk edit for External Miners where the setting to enable or disable 'Add to worker name' can be changed without modifying the worker name
--- Add support for variable [MinerDescription] in worker name field, to be replaced with the Description of the miner
--- Added a test button in dialog for wallet balance to verify the configuration
--- Added a default Block Explorer for BTCP for wallet balance
--- Default miner API timeout changed to 5 seconds and the graceful termination timeout for Managed Miners are also set to 5 seconds
--- Added Tensority, Blake256r8, Cryptonight-LiteV7 and Cryptonight IPBC algorithms
- Rules and API
--- Added new rule action for applying GPU clocking profiles
--- Added API for listing all GPU's for a specific host
--- Added API for listing, adding and updating Managed Hosts
--- Added API for listing all algorithms
--- Added API for listing all mining software
--- Added API for listing all Pool Groups
--- Added API for listing, adding and updating Managed Miners
- Profit switching
--- Improved profit switching to take pool priority into consideration for Custom Pools and use as secondary sort order after profitability
--- Profit switching information in the View Details dialog lists the configured hashrate per algorithm
- User interface
--- The operations to start a miner, stop a miner and perform pool changes are enabled even if some of the selected miners are in a state where not available
--- Improved failure messages when a miner cannot start, to show more information about mining software and algorithm used
--- Improved sorting in the lists on the Balance tab
--- Multiple temperatures are displayed with a space instead of slash as separator to increase readability
--- Add two additional configurable coins with exchange rate in the status bar
--- Allow Remote Agent to be started automatically after installation
--- More detailed error messages from SMTP server when testing mail settings
--- Added link to the Awesome Miner Affiliate Program from the main menu
- Mining software
--- SRBMiner 1.5.1 for Cryptonight algorithms
--- CastXMR 1.0 with Cryptonight-Lite support
--- Claymore Dual Ethereum Miner 11.7
--- Claymore NeoScrypt AMD Miner 1.2
--- Bminer 7.0
--- CpuMiner-Opt 3.8.8
- Corrections
--- Correction to Block Masters API integration, to use HTTP as HTTPS is no longer supported
--- Correction to custom online services where multiple services uses the same algorithm
--- Correction to Pool Balance total value when using specific display currencies
--- Correction to display of Mining Dutch X11 profit information
--- Correction to display of hashrates in the case a miner reports extreme hashrates due to internal failures
--- Correction to network scan to allow including IP addresses ending with 0
--- Minor corrections and improvements
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Version 4.0 (2017-09-07)
- Awesome Miner Cloud Services
--- Cloud Services is an optional subscription service that adds additional features to Awesome Miner
--- Web interface hosted in the cloud. All monitoring statistics are pushed to the cloud by Awesome Miner and can be accessed from any computer, tablet or smart phone.
--- Mining operations can also be controlled via the cloud without any firewall configuration
--- SMS notifications, send SMS as rule action and send SMS manually
--- Listen to Awesome Miner heart beat and send a notification if missing
--- Multiple instances of Awesome Miner can all send data to the same Cloud account, and each site can be individually viewed from the Cloud web interface
- GPU mining
--- More flexible algorithm configuration. New algorithms can be defined by user and configured for each mining software.
--- More flexible Online Service configuration
--- Managed Software can be added and used by both Managed Miners and by the Managed Profit Switcher. Define custom command line arguments for new algorithms per mining software.
--- GPU clocking profiles can be defined and automatically applied when a Managed Miner is starting and/or stopping. Works without any dependencies on the mining software being used.
--- New algorithms and coins added
--- Display Claymore miner invalid shares as HW errors
--- Ccminer 2.2 replaces older Ccminer SP-mod
--- Claymore Ethereum Miner 10.0 (changes GPU order - may require updates to 'Map to system monitoring' in Awesome Miner)
--- Claymore Zcash Miner 12.6
- ASIC mining
--- iBeLink fully supported with temperature
--- Antminer R1-LTC hashrate correction
--- Better detection of Antminer types in the network scanner
- Profitability Switching
--- Benchmarking of algorithm hashrates
--- Profit switching improvements, including configuration to disable individual algorithms per pool and separate dual mining hashrates
--- Managed Profit Miners can be configured with environment settings like Managed Miners, where window mode and processor settings can be defined.
--- Managed Profit Miners can override global worker names for default profit switching pools
--- Better support for multi-algorithm coins like Digibyte
--- Configurable to use current or 24 hour statistics for profit switching and profit display
- User interface
--- The coins listed with exchange rate in the statusbar can be customized
--- Added 6 more currencies, to support display in local currencies for more countries
--- Moved e-mail server confi