We are please to announce that the new release is now ready. Testing on the Testnet has been successful @everyone.  Source is now available for anyone wishing to take a look and compile themselves,  deterministic binaries (wallets) will be available on Tuesday at 20:00 UTC.

Due to a transaction version bump, this new release will not process new transactions from v12.2.5 nodes until the mining pools update. So if you are going to compile yourself, please be aware of this.

This gives us time to finish the release notes and installer scripts. Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 will be supported by installer scripts. We may increase this to other OS's later in the week.

v12.2.5a will activate a number of BIPs and a hard fork will occur at block 385440, any nodes on older versions will then be on the wrong fork. We estimate that this will be on the 12th of April.

All old protocol Masternodes (70209) will be disconnect for the reward structure on the 7th of April at 12:00 UTC.

We will be updating the Wiki and installer guides tomorrow, Watchdog_Expired in particular has been replaced in this release, so hopefully this update should make it easier for the community to setup new nodes.