diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4655cf348..48ec8acbc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
   - Added new option `donate-over-proxy`.
   - Added real graceful exit.
   
+# v2.14.4
+- [#992](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/pull/992)  Fixed compilation with Clang 3.5.
+- [#1012](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/pull/1012) Fixed compilation with Clang 9.0.
+- In HTTP API for unknown hashrate now used `null` instead of `0.0`.
+- Fixed MSVC 2019 version detection.
+- Removed obsolete automatic variants.
+
 # v2.14.1
 * [#975](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/issues/975) Fixed crash on Linux if double thread mode used.
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ee16862aa..5b6dc7a03 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Originally based on cpuminer-multi with heavy optimizations/rewrites and removin
 * This is the **CPU-mining** version, there is also a [NVIDIA GPU version](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-nvidia) and [AMD GPU version]( https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-amd).
 * [Roadmap](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/issues/106) for next releases.
 
-<img src="http://i.imgur.com/OKZRVDh.png" width="619" >
+<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Ymumes5.png" width="670" >
 
 #### Table of contents
 * [Features](#features)
diff --git a/src/base/net/stratum/Job.cpp b/src/base/net/stratum/Job.cpp
index 663818e2b..1f1cd4139 100644
--- a/src/base/net/stratum/Job.cpp
+++ b/src/base/net/stratum/Job.cpp
@@ -102,24 +102,6 @@ bool xmrig::Job::setBlob(const char *blob)
         m_algorithm.setVariant(variant());
     }
 
-    if (!m_algorithm.isForced()) {
-        if (m_algorithm.variant() == VARIANT_XTL && m_blob[0] >= 9) {
-            m_algorithm.setVariant(VARIANT_HALF);
-        }
-        else if (m_algorithm.variant() == VARIANT_MSR && m_blob[0] >= 8) {
-            m_algorithm.setVariant(VARIANT_HALF);
-        }
-        else if (m_algorithm.variant() == VARIANT_WOW && m_blob[0] < 11) {
-            m_algorithm.setVariant(VARIANT_2);
-        }
-        else if (m_algorithm.variant() == VARIANT_RWZ && m_blob[0] < 12) {
-            m_algorithm.setVariant(VARIANT_2);
-        }
-        else if (m_algorithm.variant() == VARIANT_ZLS && m_blob[0] < 8) {
-            m_algorithm.setVariant(VARIANT_2);
-        }
-    }
-
 #   ifdef XMRIG_PROXY_PROJECT
     memset(m_rawBlob, 0, sizeof(m_rawBlob));
     memcpy(m_rawBlob, blob, m_size * 2);