I have to agree with nsummy we need just one place for announcements, not spread all over several place like here, discord, biblepay forum and reddit. I would suggest biblepay forum as you would have more control over that avenue of communication with our own mods. It would be great if possible to have the choice of the wallets having a setting for auto update and restart, but I suppose it would all depend on the difficulty in making that work with the wallets and such.
On the mandatory upgrades we have been good about A) Checking in a Release (in contrast to a Commit), B) Posting a mandatory notice here, C) We post on twitter, D) We update the pool front page, E) The client gives a warning when the version changes (I admit, this changes for *every* version, so its not working as intended for releases).
For this particular upgrade:
Please keep your eyes peeled for a twitter update and a post here in a couple more days.
The auto-update feature may be possible some day in windows. (Linux is too big of a security risk to code it in).