The Ethereum community will likely 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 as a consequence of variable block occasions and timezones.
Please improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block occasions
Ethernodes.org has kindly offered Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer positioned at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has offered 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/ (it is going to 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 resembling Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum person or ether holder is there something I have to do?
If you happen to use an alternate (resembling Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (resembling Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (resembling Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (resembling Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you do not want to do something except you’re knowledgeable to take extra steps by your alternate or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to do?
Obtain the most recent 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 study extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders have put collectively a weblog submit which outlines why we’re upgrading the community and what modifications are going into the improve. Yow will discover that weblog submit right here.
Thank You!
A giant 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. If you happen to select to implement the suggestions on this submit and proceed to take part, you need to be sure you perceive the way it impacts you. You must perceive that there are dangers concerned together with however not restricted to dangers like surprising bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the results. This submit 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.