diff --git a/release_scripts/build_all.sh b/release_scripts/build_all.sh
index d5ca00e..0e7d526 100755
--- a/release_scripts/build_all.sh
+++ b/release_scripts/build_all.sh
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@ gnome-terminal --tab -- linux_x64/build.sh $1
 gnome-terminal --tab -- windows_x64/build.sh $1
 gnome-terminal --tab -- macos_aarch64/build.sh $1
 gnome-terminal --tab -- macos_x64/build.sh $1
+gnome-terminal --tab -- source/build.sh $1
diff --git a/release_scripts/images/ubuntu/prepare.sh b/release_scripts/images/ubuntu/prepare.sh
index 2626ef9..53811ff 100755
--- a/release_scripts/images/ubuntu/prepare.sh
+++ b/release_scripts/images/ubuntu/prepare.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ LINUX_HEADERS_VERSION=6.15.4
 MACOSX_SDK_VERSION=15.5
 MAKE_VERSION=4.4.1
 MINGW_VERSION=12.0.0
+XZ_VERSION=5.8.1
 
 _7ZIP_SHA256="914c7e20ad5ef8e4d3cf08620ff8894b28fe11b7eb99809d6930870fbe48a281"
 CMAKE_SHA256="585ae9e013107bc8e7c7c9ce872cbdcbdff569e675b07ef57aacfb88c886faac"
@@ -411,6 +412,21 @@ tar -xf $FREEBSD_FILE ./lib/ ./usr/lib/ ./usr/include/
 rm $FREEBSD_FILE
 #find /usr/local/cross-freebsd-aarch64/usr/lib -xtype l|xargs ls -l|grep ' /lib/'|awk '{print "ln -sf /usr/local/cross-freebsd-aarch64"$11 " " $9}'|/bin/sh
 
+echo "Install xz"
+
+apt-get remove -yq xz-utils
+
+cd /root
+
+git clone --depth=1 --branch v$XZ_VERSION https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz
+cd xz
+mkdir build && cd build
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang
+make -j$(nproc)
+
+cp -f lzma* /usr/bin
+cp -f xz* /usr/bin
+
 echo "Deleting system glibc files to force our glibc"
 
 rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o
diff --git a/release_scripts/source/Dockerfile b/release_scripts/source/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1e556f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_scripts/source/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+FROM p2pool_build_ubuntu
+ARG P2POOL_VERSION BUILD_TIMESTAMP
+ADD p2pool_source.sh /root
+RUN /root/p2pool_source.sh ${P2POOL_VERSION} ${BUILD_TIMESTAMP}
diff --git a/release_scripts/source/build.sh b/release_scripts/source/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8afcef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_scripts/source/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Example usage: ./build.sh v4.8.1
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+docker build --build-arg P2POOL_VERSION=$1 --build-arg BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$(git show --no-patch --format=%ct $1)" -t p2pool_source_build .
+
+docker create --name p2pool_source_build_container p2pool_source_build:latest
+docker cp p2pool_source_build_container:/root/p2pool_source-$1.tar.xz ../p2pool_source-$1.tar.xz
+docker rm p2pool_source_build_container
+
+docker image rm -f p2pool_source_build
diff --git a/release_scripts/source/p2pool_source.sh b/release_scripts/source/p2pool_source.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..65fedbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_scripts/source/p2pool_source.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+export TZ=UTC0
+
+CURRENT_DATE=$(date -u -d @$2 +"%Y-%m-%d")
+CURRENT_TIME=$(date -u -d @$2 +"%H:%M:%S")
+TOUCH_DATE=$(date -u -d @$2 +"%Y%m%d%H%M.%S")
+
+cd /root
+
+git clone --depth=1 --recursive --branch $1 https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool
+
+tar --format=pax --pax-option='exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=atime,delete=ctime' --sort=name --owner=0 --group=0 --mtime="$CURRENT_DATE $CURRENT_TIME" --exclude=".git" --exclude="release_scripts/*.tar*" -f p2pool_source-$1.tar -c p2pool
+touch -t $TOUCH_DATE p2pool_source-$1.tar
+
+xz --version
+xz --lzma2=preset=9e,dict=256MiB,pb=0 p2pool_source-$1.tar