I am on wallet version 1.3 and haven't used wallet for a few days.
I changed the addnodes in the conf. file with the latest in OP before starting up wallet.
The block count matches exactly to the explorer link given by devs.
So if you haven't opened your wallet for few days, in this way the problem can be averted.
Coins has started minting and getting a few incoming, now thats super!!
If the devs may want to comment as I don't want to give people the wrong advice.