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🚨 MANDATORY UPGRADE — alpha-miner v1.5

This update is required. v1.5 changes the stratum wire protocol for DDoS mitigation. Old v1.4 and earlier miners will stop working with AlphaPool within 24 hours. Upgrade now to keep mining.

What changed in v1.5

  • Stratum spec update required for the pool's new DDoS-mitigation layer (the primary reason this release is mandatory)
  • Slight hashrate improvement on some cards
  • Stability bug fixes
  • Binary version: alpha-miner 1.5 (verify with ./alpha-miner --version)
  • Backend matrix unchanged: volta · ampere · ada · hopper · blackwell · blackwell-native

How to upgrade

Linux (direct binary)

curl -L -o alpha-miner https://github.com/AlphaMine-Tech/alpha-miner/releases/latest/download/alpha-miner
chmod +x alpha-miner
./alpha-miner --pool stratum+tcp://us2.alphapool.tech:5566 --address prl1pYOUR_PRL_ADDRESS --worker rig01

Regional pool hosts (pick closest — do not use pearl.alphapool.tech for stratum, that hostname is HTTPS/Cloudflare only):

  • us2.alphapool.tech:5566 — US West
  • eu1.alphapool.tech:5566 — Europe
  • sg1.alphapool.tech:5566 — Asia

Solo mining: same hosts, port 5567.

HiveOS

In your flight sheet → edit your Custom Miner → update Installation URL to:

https://github.com/AlphaMine-Tech/alpha-miner/releases/download/v1.5.0.01/alpha-V1.5.0.01.20260518.tar.gz

Then save and re-apply the flight sheet so HiveOS reinstalls. Wrapper rev 03 (multi-pool failover supervisor, per-GPU kH/s stats, idle-reaper) is unchanged — only the binary inside the package and CUSTOM_VERSION are bumped.

Docker

docker pull alphaminetech/pearl-miner:1.5.0
docker run --gpus all \
  -e PEARL_ADDRESS=prl1pYOUR_ADDR \
  -e PEARL_POOL_HOST=us2.alphapool.tech \
  -e PEARL_POOL_PORT=5566 \
  alphaminetech/pearl-miner:1.5.0

PEARL_POOL_HOST required. Same env var set as v1.4 (no entrypoint changes).

Prior releases

Prior version tarballs remain available for reference:

These older binaries will stop working with AlphaPool within 24 hours of this release. Keep them for archival/forensics only.

Architecture support

volta (V100, CMP 100-210) · ampere (RTX 30-series, A100, CMP 170HX/220HX) · ada (RTX 40-series) · hopper (H100, H200) · blackwell (RTX 50-series, B100, B200) · blackwell-native

Turing (RTX 20-series, T4, CMP 30/40/50/90HX) still on the roadmap.

Smoke test (pre-release)

  • zkcluster07 (RTX 4090, ada backend): 152.74 TH/s, clean share submission
  • jd100 (3070 + 2× 3060Ti, ampere backend): 50/48/47 TH/s respectively, all GPUs reporting
  • Volta backend not retested on internal fleet (epyc-alphagamers torn down for unrelated reasons); will be canary-validated by public V100/CMP miners on adoption.

Checksums

See SHA256SUMS.

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