After weeks of testing, we are pleased fully release software for the upcoming mainnet launch of Service Nodes on the 20th of September. Many thanks to the community who have helped us test and find issues - without you this would have been a lot slower! This release marks the beginning of the mandatory upgrade period. You will need to update your software if you are a pool operator or exchange, and clients will need to update before they can send transactions after the hardfork. A GUI update will also go live in the next 24 hours.

A note to pool operators - there appears to have been some issues with a common dependacy for many mining pools with recent updates. Jack has updated his reference implementation to include the fix for these issues: https://github.com/jcktm/node-cryptoforknote-util or if you do not use this particular software, the specific commit that fixes the issue can be found here: https://github.com/jcktm/node-cryptoforknote-util/commit/dde20b6a43029003d1ef18a8879dc338b44eea88 As always, if you need help with upgrades, jump on the discord!

Very exciting times! I look forward to seeing who gets the first Service Nodes up at the hardfork!

Download the mainnet release here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc