Bad news 
This release contains the proposed upcoming Vertcoin main network hard fork to the new Lyra2REv3 mining algorithm at block 1080000 in order to rid the network of the current generation of Lyra2REv2 ASICs and FPGAs. It also contains the hard fork for the test network which already occurred at block 158221. The related pull request is here: #72. The difficulty will be forced down to 0x1b0ffff0 for 10 blocks after the fork before the usual KGW difficulty adjustment algorithm kicks in again to prevent the network from stalling due to the large expected decrease in network hashrate post-fork.
This release contains the proposed upcoming Vertcoin main network hard fork to the new Lyra2REv3 mining algorithm at block 1080000 in order to rid the network of the current generation of Lyra2REv2 ASICs and FPGAs. It also contains the hard fork for the test network which already occurred at block 158221. The related pull request is here: #72. The difficulty will be forced down to 0x1b0ffff0 for 10 blocks after the fork before the usual KGW difficulty adjustment algorithm kicks in again to prevent the network from stalling due to the large expected decrease in network hashrate post-fork.
Monacoin, the last hope...
Yeah I mean VTC was always planning to fork around ASICs, so this was to be 100% expected. Surprised it took so long honestly. We forked more than once before, and will fork around any ASICs in the future.
Mona is a tag-along coin that I guess you will all be forced to mine now. Or some other obscure shitcoin. VTC made the Lyra2REv2 algo and Mona just decided to take the algo. Thats fine, thats open source code, but now that VTC devs made Lyra2REv3 I wouldn't put it below the Mona devs to fork to it as well. We shall see. To be honest it will be nice to see the ASICs gone from "The peoples coin." VTC I believe will soon make it back into the top of GPU mineable coins.