OK I am impressed. I have been a fan of Zen for a while now, but this upcoming transformation is really mind boggling, I have to say. Is there any infos of the time all this transformation will need?

I thought it would help everyone understand the reasoning behind the change.  The initial estimate was end of May and now it is beginning of July so it is not too big a slip.The hard fork need to be after the  deprecation of the current version as it affects full wallets, nodes, pools and exchanges.