Yes, everyone having wallet sync issues please edit src/CryptoNoteConfig.h and change BLOCKS_IDS_SYNCHRONIZING_DEFAULT_COUNT to 1000 and rebuild.
Updated binary and source released.
Run simplewallet, wait until it is synced, optionally run set_log 5 and then reset. The issue was fetching 10000 blocks at once instead of 100.

The next objective to do is block explorer.