P2Pool to hardfork and enable merge mining on October 12 2024

SChernykh¹ has released P2Pool² version 4.0³ with merge mining support⁴, which will be enabled after its next hardfork on October 12th 2024 at 20:00 UTC:

P2Pool (not Monero!) will hardfork to new consensus rules on October 12th, 2024 at 20:00 UTC. Merge mining will be enabled at that time. You must update to P2Pool v4.0 or newer before this date.

Changes overview

Features:
-Merge mining support (available after the fork)
-Stratum: calculate hashing blobs in parallel [..]
-Stratum: autodiff will use 500k starting difficulty now [..]
Bugfixes:
-Updated internal dependencies to the latest versions [..]
-Exit early with an error message if the command line is invalid [..]
-Fixed a few rare crashes and data races

The complete list of changes since v3.10 is available on Github⁵.

It is worth noting that this will be P2Pool’s second HF, after its successful network upgrade from March 18 2023⁶.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.