Without further ado, I’d like to present a labor of love months in the making, (as labors of Love typically go) 
@davidtavarez has been cranking away in the grin++ workshop- refining, re-tooling, refueling the ease-of-use and stability of the community’s favorite node and wallet.
Please find below the newest, most-improved-est, and downright damn-good Grin++ 1.2.8 Beta 5 release.
Don’t forget to hug a developer today 
good work
happy grin forum anniversary 
All credit goes to @davidtavarez 
Grin++ state is the whole day “Waiting for Peers”. An incoming transaction can not complete.
Any ideas?
I also had this issue, I run a few full nodes so I just want to be able to connect through my own nodes to be able to use grin++ at this point. Not worth getting vpn for that reason only.
Managed to solve this issue by re-sync the node.
Settings > Actions > Sync
I will try that, but in general feature to select personal node would be much appreciated