Announcing Verus v1.2.5 - CRITICAL UPDATE FOR BRIDGEKEEPER OPERATORS AND FIRST UPDATE INCLUDING PROTOCOL CHANGE, SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 15TH, 8PM UTC, (OCTOBER 29TH, 7PM UTC FOR TESTNET) ADDRESSING ONE KNOWN PROTOCOL ERRATA UPDATE YOUR NODES TO v1.2.5 OR GREATER FOR VERUS AND ALL PBaaS CHAINS BEFORE JANUARY 15TH, 8PM UTC TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF YOUR NODE FALLING OUT OF SYNC WITH THE MAIN CHAIN OR DELAYS ON CROSS-CHAIN NOTARIZATION FOR PBaaS CHAINS AFTER A REORG IF YOU RUN BRIDGEKEEPER, WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU UPGRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AS v1.2.5 INCLUDES RESILIENCE TO A CHANGE EXPECTED BY ETHEREUM RPC PROVIDERS. UPGRADING NOW WILL HELP ENSURE ROBUST OPERATION OF THE ETHEREUM BRIDGE IF / WHEN SUCH A CHANGE HAPPENS

CLI RELEASE: https://github.com/VerusCoin/VerusCoin/releases/tag/v1.2.5
GUI RELEASE: https://github.com/VerusCoin/Verus-Desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.5

GUI TESTNET RELEASE: https://github.com/VerusCoin/Verus-Desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.5-testnet

v1.2.5 includes some minor API improvements, easier reporting of earnings from mining, staking, and conversions with listtransactions, and a protocol errata fix to address an inability to use secondary referral identities with currency ID registrars that specify exactly 1 ID referral level.

This protocol change will take place as scheduled on January 15th (October 29th on testnet) for all PBaaS chains and will be present in all releases between now and then.