^ yep.
i have the exchange admins in my contacts. same for pool owners. they are the first people i contact whenever an update it made.
for those of you in irc, steam, i2prc, and now slack, we have a bot that posts in the room whenever a change is made to the source code, along with a link that will take you to the commit and show you exactly what was changed, along with a description i (usually) enter..
when im done testing, the exchanges and pools will be notified (possibly within the next couple of hours)
then i will compile wallets and replace them on our website, and post them for everyone. i will also make a post here the moment after i gave the green light to the exchanges to update =]
Your hard work and dedication is amazing Dogedarkdev. thank you heaps.

Really looking forward to the Multi-Algo update.
more people mining - Not people mining more

And for what it is worth, Bittrex did the right thing by halting trading until the new release.
They know the VERGE update is worth waiting for.