SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.1

SChernykh¹ has released P2Pool² version 4.1³ with new features and various bug fixes.

Changes overview

New Features: 
- Stratum: added SSL/TLS support for stratum connections
- New command line parameters --tls-cert and --tls-cert-key - see documentation
- Stratum: detect HTTP requests to the stratum port and send a P2Pool Stratum online response [..]
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a random failure to start on some Windows systems because of failed to bind port [..]
- Fixed an occasional deadlock on exit with merge mining active
- Updated internal dependencies to the latest versions [..]
- P2Pool API: skip unnecessary file writes

The full list of changes since v4.0 is available on Github⁴.

Before using the software, you should verify the SHA256 sums with SChernykh’s GPG key⁵.

The README⁶ has valuable information about features, defaults, how pool shares work, build instructions and a short mining guide.

If you need assistance, read the FAQ⁷ and join the project’s IRC channels⁸.

To support further development of P2Pool, transfer any amount of XMR to the project’s donation address⁹.

Note that P2Pool miners running v3.x will not be able to join the P2Pool main/mini chains after the October 12 2024 hardfork¹⁰.