The Ethereum community can be present process a scheduled improve at block quantity 9,200,000, which is predicted to happen on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The precise date is topic to vary on account of variable block instances and timezones.
Please improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block instances
Ethernodes.org has kindly supplied Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer positioned at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has supplied a countdown timer positioned at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You may monitor the community improve in actual time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (will probably be up to date shortly earlier than the fork).
What’s Muir Glacier?
Muir Glacier is the identify given to this community improve. Earlier community upgrades have been given different names reminiscent of Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum person or ether holder is there something I have to do?
When you use an change (reminiscent of Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an internet pockets service (reminiscent of Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cell pockets service (reminiscent of Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (reminiscent of Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you don’t want to do something except you’re knowledgeable to take further steps by your change or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to do?
Obtain the newest model of your Ethereum shopper:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated shopper and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet appropriate Ethereum shopper written in Java.
The place can I be taught extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders have put collectively a weblog put up which outlines why we’re upgrading the community and what modifications are going into the improve. You will discover that weblog put up right here.
Thank You!
An enormous due to the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all shoppers and platforms who got here collectively to offer enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. When you select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you need to be sure to perceive the way it impacts you. It is best to perceive that there are dangers concerned together with however not restricted to dangers like sudden bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the implications. This put up and proposals will not be a sale of any variety and don’t create any warranties of any variety together with however not restricted to any referring to the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
