Changelog

0.7.0 — 2021-05-26

Changed: The global context API (aka "managed" API) has been moved to separate library ethash::global-context and ethash/global_context.hpp header. #175
Added: CMake options to disable building of individual libraries:
- -DETHASH_BUILD_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=NO disables building ethash::global-context.
- -DETHASH_BUILD_ETHASH=NO disables building ethash::ethash and ethash::global-context. Only ethash::keccak is built then.
Added: Basic support for building to WebAssembly #175

0.6.0 — 2020-12-15

Added: The ethash::keccak library received the optimized Keccak implementation which uses BMI and BMI2 x86_64 extensions. This implementation is automatically selected at startup provided the used extensions are available in the hardware. #162 #168

0.5.2 — 2020-08-03

Fixed: Fix compilation with MSVC/C++17. #154

0.5.1 — 2020-01-30

Added: Experimental Python bindings — ethash package. #123 #138
Added: More functions exposed in C API. #136
Changed: ProgPoW implementation updated to revision 0.9.3. #151

0.5.0 — 2019-06-07

Changed: The Keccak implementation has been moved to separate library "keccak", available as ethash::keccak target in the ethash CMake package. #131

0.4.4 — 2019-02-26

Fixed: Fix compilation on PowerPC architectures (-mtune=generic not supported there). #125

0.4.3 — 2019-02-19

Added: The public version.h header with information about the ethash library version. #121
Added: Ethash and ProgPoW revisions exposed as {ethash,progpow}::revision constants. #121

0.4.2 — 2019-01-24

Fixed: The progpow.cpp file encoding changed from utf-8 to ascii.

0.4.1 — 2018-12-14

Added: [KISS99 PRNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_(algorithm) distribution tester tool.
Changed: ProgPoW implementation updated to revision 0.9.2.
Changed: ProgPoW implementation optimizations.

0.4.0 — 2018-12-04

Added: Experimental support for ProgPoW 0.9.1.