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2024:

• August 7: Zen5's AVX512
• July 20: Zen5 Optimizations
• July 1: Version v0.8.5 Released
• June 28: Pi Record Smashed at 202 Trillion Digits
• May 10: Version 0.8.5 Preview
• April 3: Countering the Compiler Regression with Optimizations
• March 13: Limping to a new Pi Record of 105 Trillion Digits
• February 21: Version 0.8.4 Released
• February 13: Version 0.8.3 Patched
• February 9: FLINT: The Rising Star of Bignum Libraries

 

2023:

• December 27: Amdahl's Law and Large Computers
• December 2: Version 0.8.3 Released
• November 13: Some Love for SSDs
• October 25: New Formulas by Jorge Zuniga
• September 4: Version 0.8.2 Released
• July 11: Version 0.8.1 Released
• June 7: Upcoming Changes for v0.8.x
• April 19: The Need for Speed!
• April 17: Intel Optimizations (or lack of)

2022:

• September 26: Zen4's AVX512
• August 31: Version 0.7.10 and AMD Zen4
• June 8: 100 Trillion Digits of Pi
• March 14: Pi Day and Version 0.7.9

 

2021:

• August 19: 62.8 Trillion Digits of Pi

 

2020:

• March 1: Version 0.7.8 Patch with Zen 2 Optimizations
• January 29: The Pi Record Returns to the Personal Computer

 

2019:

• November 1: Second Formula for Zeta(5)
• October 5: Version v0.7.8 Public Beta
• June 24: Technology Wishlist
• April 22: Commercial Use Reminders
• March 14: Google Cloud Topples the Pi Record
• January 5: Version v0.7.7

 

2018:

• October 28: Custom Formulas
• August 23: Catalan's Constant is No Longer a Slow Constant
• August 11: Version 0.7.6
• August 7: Spectre Attack via AVX Clock Speed Throttle
• July 2: AVX512 Scalability - One Year In
• March 14: Pi Day and "houkouonchi"
• January 7: Page Table Isolation and Large Pages

 

2017:

• October 24: AV False Positives
• October 14: Version 0.7.4
• August 15: Updates on Skylake X and Threadripper
• July 6: Skylake X and AVX512
• March 14: Version 0.7.2 and AMD Zen

 

2016:

• November 15: Pi Computed to 22.4 Trillion Digits
• October 10: Knights Landing Xeon Phi with AVX512
• May 16: y-cruncher v0.7.1
• April 3: GUI Benchmark Wrapper and HWBOT Integration
• March 14: Pi Day and some Spin-off Projects

 

2015:

• December 5: Version 0.6.9
• November 8: Performance Announcement for Ubuntu 15.10
• June 8: 200 billion digits of Catalan's Constant
• May 7: Version 0.6.8 (fix 2)
• March 17: Version v0.6.8 Patched
• March 14: Pi Day of the Century
• February 8: Version 0.6.7 Released
• January 27: Version 0.6.7 Preview

 

2014:

• December 21: Version 0.6.6 Patched (again)
• November 5: Version 0.6.6
• October 8: World Record - 13.3 trillion digits of Pi
• May 26: Version 0.6.5
• March 14: Pi Day and Version 0.6.4
• February 21: Version 0.6.3 Patched

 

2013:

• December 29: Version 0.6.3 is out
• December 28: 12.1 Trillion Digits of Pi
• December 22: 119 billion digits of Euler's Constant
• November 24: User Guide for v0.6.x's Swap Mode
• October 9: Version 0.6.2 (fix 1) Canceled - Digit Viewer Source Released
• July 14: Some random things...
• June 30: v0.6.2 for Linux

 

There were older entries. But I no longer have a record of them... :(