It is a pleasure for us to announce the new release of xmr-stak 2.0.0. /u/psychocrypt and me working the last few month to simplify mining and allow everyone to participate with their hardware.

The most obvious change is that there is no longer need to download for AMD/NVIDIA and CPU independent miner. You can mine on all architectures just from one pre- or self-compiled binary. During the first start you will be guided to configure the miner.

XMR-Stak is now supporting Monero and Aeon without recompiling.

Features

• 10% boost to CPUs without hardware AES
• Supports all common backends (CPU/x86, AMD-GPU and NVIDIA-GPU)
• Supports all common OS (Linux, Windows and MacOS)
• Supports algorithm cryptonight for Monero (XMR) and cryptonight-light (AEON)
• Guided start (no need to edit a config file for the first start)
• Automatic configuration for each mining backend
• Allows to tweak each core or gpu by hand
• Supports backup pools
• TLS support
• HTML statistics
• JSON API for monitoring
• Support the new stratum statistics extension
• Easy precompiled and portable Linux binary

The miner is fully open source (GPLv3). This means each improvement can be reused by the community and you have always the possibility to verify the source code.

https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases

We are also raising funds for two new exciting projects to take Monero mining to a new level - see if you like them:

GUI Miner

New, easier to use pool software