Peercoin has been re-based to Bitcoin v0.8.6.

Opt-out of synchronized checkpoints has been implemented and can be activated through an option in the menu (this allows the client to stop using the special “checkpoint” node as a reference point when it comes to consensus).

BIP65 (OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY) has been implemented and a client is being prepared to start testing the new protocol through a fork of the testnet.

Autotools-based build process has been backported from Bitcoin v0.9.5. This brings the peercoin-cli command line utility as well.

Both mainnet and testnet have new dns seed nodes.

The reference client’s GUI now uses QT5 by default.

All desired Peerunity features have been ported to the Peercoin reference client. The reference client now has coin control and the minting tab. This means that the Peerunity community client will be disbanded and will no longer receive updates. The development team will focus only on the core reference client from now on. Pull requests are currently being reviewed.

The remainder of the work needed to be done includes forking the testnet to new protocol, further testing and re-skinning the client. It’s possible (but not guaranteed) that we may need some help with the latter, so if you are familiar at all with QT5 and wish to help the Peercoin Team, we would appreciate it if you could contact @Sentinelrv about it so we can get in touch with you.