4 May 2025 [mining]

SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.5

SChernykh1 has released P2Pool2 version 4.53 with a few new features and various bugfixes.

Changes overview

Bugfixes:
* Fixed build flags for the release binaries
* Fixed a crash in RISC-V build when huge pages are not available
* Logging: fixed unsafe memory read
* Fixed unaligned memory accesses
New Features:
* Set thread names for better debugging
* Switch to another host during startup if the first host is unavailable [..]

The full list of changes since v4.4 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 it is strongly recommended to synchronize your system clock before you start mining.

  1. https://github.com/SChernykh/ ↩

  2. https://p2pool.io/ ↩

  3. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases/tag/v4.5 ↩

  4. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/compare/v4.4…v4.5 ↩

  5. https://p2pool.io/SChernykh.asc, https://github.com/monero-project/gitian.sigs/blob/master/gitian-pubkeys/SChernykh.asc ↩

  6. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/blob/master/README.md ↩

  7. https://p2pool.io/#faq ↩

  8. #monero-pools, #p2pool-log, #p2pool-mini (IRC-Libera) ↩

  9. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/#donations ↩