How about getting a small group of people to install the new client and let them test it?
-tb-
That will happen after i have made sure the forking issue is 100% resolved as i don't want people making a boatload of forks by accident
( the new client didn't fully stop POS blocks being mined before it was in sync causing me to go of on my own fork )
we are working on patching that bit up and an updated version will be done today and hopefully i will have everything sorted for tomorrow morning if needed the hard fork will be pushed back but i will only do that if its absolutely necessary