Upcoming preparation release, HARD FORK AT BLOCK 50 000 in two months!!

A release is upcoming in the coming days. It will contain preparations for coming features. The release will be a drop in replacement if you are running version 0.9.1.7x.

However, this release will create a HARD FORK at block 50 000. Block 50 000 will be created in approximately two months.

The following updates are included in the release:
- Deposit transactions will be allowed to have more than one input. This will enable the wallet (in the release after this one) to automatically create deposits from any content that you have in a wallet.
- The number of deposit transactions in a block will be allowed up to a maximum of 1000, updated from previously 10. This will make it easier to enable pooled mining, with externally provided deposits.
- Changed difficulty adjustment algorithm at block 50 000. The new diff adjustment algorithm will be much faster. It will update every 252 blocks with a max adjustment factor of 2 up or down. Adjustment speed will be 64 times higher than current diff adjustment. The reason for this is twofold:
   1. To prevent block generation from being stuck if a sudden drop in mining power occurs.
   2. In the future when deposit mining will be more and more important, preventing the block generation from being stuck if deposits are being withheld.

Updates and new release branch will be created on Thursday.