Happy new year guys.  I'm back from Holiday and ready to continue working on the coin.

The new features that I've been working on have required lots of risky changes to the KHC protocol so, more developer testing is required before I can release a version with all these changes.  
But, for the mean time, I'm preparing a Wallet version 0.70 that will only contain important bug fixes.  I'm planning to release this version after block 150,000 gets mined in the next few weeks.

Also, since most of the problems with KHC have been related to the PID algorithm to calculate the difficulty re-target time every 100 blocks, I'm seriously considering getting rid of the PID algo altogether and switch to a more standard approach to calculate the diff.  Don't get me wrong, the PID algorithm was a pretty neat addition to the crypto-world but, in my opinion (and after a lot of pain debugging every possible corner case), the PID algo has only added unnecessary complexity with no apparent benefits to the KHC protocol.


Finally, about the cgminer getting stuck issue.  I began experienced the same problem after I reinstalled Windows on one of my miners so, I'm going to debug what's going on.