How long before the new protocol is deployed? a few months?
well there is a roadmap but without dates:
https://pivx.org/what-is-pivx/roadmap/
it is one of the of the principles of the main dev s3v3nh4cks not to create hype and give estimates. he mentioned this severals times in the past and that is one of the reason why i support dnet/pivx from beginning and will do so in future. see her for example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1262920.msg16877278;topicseen#msg16877278
the funniest criticism I read was that the PIVX devs had not revealed their real names... I LOLed so much, here on bitcointalk... I guess they don't even know where 0.00000001 btc or called "the sat" comes from .