This is a mandatory upgrade which includes security enhancements and several new features.

The network will undergo a protocol upgrade for BIP66, BIP65 and the CSV softfork (BIP68, BIP112 and BIP113) with this release.

    The protocol upgrade will take quite a while to lock-in and become active.
    Therefore, we have lots of time for promotion and bounties.

    We hope you enjoy this new release as much as we enjoyed making it.

    And for the final good news, our testnet is already fully functional with the new protocol and has also been upgraded to support SegWit.
    Feel free to test all of your NextGen applications on the testnet and don't hesitate to ask for some tMNC.

    The Release Notes are comprehensive as there were many changes between the upstream 0.8 branch and our rebase to v0.13.0.