- connecting to nodes is much faster and more reliable now
- reduced the amount of spaghetti in libwalletqt and greatly simplified the logic in nodes.cpp
- Settings -> Node dialog should feel slightly more responsive
- during synchronization the status bar will now display the amount of data downloaded
- fixed some edge cases that could cause unreasonably long hangs
- Help -> Debug Info screen now auto-updates every 5 seconds
- Don't use SSL over Tor
