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-PPCoin 0.1.0 BETA
+NovaCoin 0.4.2 BETA
+
+Copyright (c) 2013 NovaCoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2011-2012 PPCoin Developers
+Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
+file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
+the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).  This product includes
+cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
+
+
+Intro
+-----
+NovaCoin is a free open source project derived from Bitcoin, with
+the goal of providing a long-term energy-efficient scrypt-based crypto-currency.
+Built on the foundation of Bitcoin and PPCoin, innovations such as proof-of-stake
+help further advance the field of crypto-currency.
+
+-----
+
+PPCoin 0.3.0 BETA
 
 Copyright (c) 2011-2012 PPCoin Developers
 Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
@@ -29,6 +49,16 @@ incoming connections.  PPCoin works without incoming connections,
 but allowing incoming connections helps the PPCoin network.
 
 
+Upgrade
+-------
+All you existing coins/transactions should be intact with the upgrade.
+To upgrade from 0.2, first backup wallet
+ppcoind backupwallet <destination_backup_file>
+Then shutdown ppcoind by
+ppcoind stop
+Start up the new ppcoind (0.2.2).
+
+
 See the documentation/wiki at the ppcoin website:
   http://www.ppcoin.org/
 for help and more information.