Compiling qt programs really isn't that difficult. If you are using linux (this was tested on elementaryOS), here is how you compile the new wallet. You need to install build-essential and possibly some additional qt dependencies. The terminal should tell you if you need something.
1. Delete everything in your .ekrona folder EXCEPT for your wallet.dat file (I'm not 100% sure removing these files is necessary, but it works)
2.Open terminal
3. cd Downloads/ekrona-master (if you downloaded and unzipped to your Downloads directory)
4. sed -i 's/-mgw46-mt-sd-1_53//g' ekrona-qt.pro
5. qmake USE_UPNP=- USE_QRCODE=0 USE_IPV6=0
Don't worry if you see any of the following messages:
Project MESSAGE: Building without UPNP support
Project MESSAGE: Building with UPNP supportRemoved plural forms as the target language has less forms.
If this sounds wrong, possibly the target language is not set or recognized.
6. make -j3
Sometimes, for me at least, the wallet can really hang on a particular block, but if you wait long enough it will update.
Windows and Mac users, look for instructions on how to compile other coins like dogecoin and modify where appropriate (that's what I did).
You realize we are able to compile the wallet just fine but it crashes when you run it right?
It never crashes for me. Now that the wallet was updated, try to contact Pengar to see if he can compile the wallet for Windows and Mac.
Are you saying you compiled the new wallet and it works for you on multiple PCs? We had a successful compile that ran great on the compiling machine but wouldn't run outside of that VM. If you have a wallet that is working with the new code why not share

I got it working perfect on my main pc running elementaryOS (not in a VM).
I just tried to install it on an old Dell Pentium 4 computer running Ubuntu 12.04 I had laying around. It compiled and doesn't crash, but it has problems connecting to the network. After refusing to connect for a while, it connected and synced up to block 44,999 and hasn't connected since. The only thing I did differently was changing step 6 (from my instructions above) from
make -j3 to
make because it is such an old computer.
You asked me to share, but I already posted instructions on how I did it.