We estimate about a week or two away.

Here are the latest release candidates

https://earthcoin.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/1.3.0.rc4/win32/earthcoin-1.3.0.rc4-win32-setup.exe
https://earthcoin.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/1.3.0.rc4/linux/earthcoin-1.3.0.rc4-linux.tar.gz
https://earthcoin.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/1.3.0.rc4/macosx/EarthCoin-Qt-1.3.0.rc4.dmg

We need people, especially pools, to help us test.


Changes in this release include:

• Forked off Litecoin Release 0.8.7.1
  
  • Includes lots of bugfixes compared to 0.6 based release
  • Upgrade to openssl-1.0.1g for CVE-2014-0160
  • Upgrade qt, miniupnpc, zlib, libpng, qrencode
  • Transaction malleability mitigation
  • Coin Control Feature
• Checkpoints up to block 153,000
• Enable QR code generation
• Setup a working testnet
• Add alert keys to enable network alerts
• Add DNS seed nodes
• Add IP addresses of reliable nodes to source code
• Updated translations
• Make true release builds
  
  • installer for windows releases
  • DMG for Mac releases
  • 32-bit and 64-bit binaries for linux releases
• Fix several inconsistency in the old client

More detailed notes here: https://github.com/earthcoinproject/earthcoin-1.3/blob/release/1.3/doc/release-notes.md

Thanks to Linki aka Earthshit for taking over the development role.

Thanks to Dasource for setting up  the second earthcoin dnsseed node on http://dnsseed.earthchain.info as well as a permanent node on http://seed.earthchain.info

Our Github Source Repository is located at: https://github.com/earthcoinproject/earthcoin