There's one minor exception to this:  When the coinbase transaction is full (beyond the size that some mining hardware can handle without a performance penalty... mainly poorly coded or low memory embedded miners) a few smaller payouts near the bottom of the top block of the queue can be shifted out to the next block out of order in favor of some slightly newer but larger amounts due to other miners in order to better get the majority of the coinbase payout to miners vs Eligius's offline wallets.  This out of order replacement is limited to 5% of the addresses paid in the block, so for the most part queue position isn't adversely affected.  But it's a necessary exception to allow to make sure that the coinbase's block subsidy is best utilized and sent to miners vs being set aside for manual payouts.

Anyway, I'm still working on the new code for the pool and I've made some pretty good progress.  I've had to play catch up on some other responsibilities, but I'm still dedicating a good chunk of my schedule towards getting things done here.

My goal is to potentially recruit some tight lipped beta testers in about a week to help me test out some things in the sandbox (most likely via our IRC channel and some other private invites).  Assuming all goes well with the sandbox betas and live betas I'm shooting for a full pool transformation soon after.

Have I mentioned I'm very excited about all of this?

Some hints at upcoming features (disclaimer: may not all be available immediately):

• Ability to mine with all valid address types, not just version 0 addresses (1xxxx)
• Ability to change your payout address securely (!)
• Enhanced stats with worker and account data histories from present back to the beginning of time
• Live worker stats (give or take 10-15 seconds)
• Enhanced stats API
• Much more

That's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.