the comment below that so called fix doesn't sound too promising to be honest:
You don't think the ETN devs could have figured this out? Obviously they just don't want to do this, for some unknown reason.
If you really want to be useful, try to find the bug that is causing rejected blocks when not empty.
LOL.. I don't blame him for being upset. I'm not happy with how this went down. I guess the other pull addressed that issue. I think there are two issues.
Edit: I think AngeGallego's fix only fixes the difficulty issue and not the ring issue.
Edit2: So I guess the ring issue still needs a fix.