Ethereum's Constantinople Hard Fork Is Being Delayed Until 2019
CoinDesk
Published Dec 31, 0000 07:00PM ET
Updated Oct 19, 2018 03:15PM ET
Ethereum's next hard fork, dubbed Constantinople, will be postponed until early 2019, developers confirmed in a meeting Friday.
Initially targeted to activate in November this year, developers opted to postpone the hard fork push after several bugs were found in the code that was released on a test network. Now aiming for sometime in late January or February, developers on the call Friday agreed that moving ahead with the hard fork next month would be unwise.
Speaking to this during the live-streamed meeting, developer Afri Schoeden remarked:
"I keep getting the feeling that we're trying to rush this and I would second that we should breathe and see what happens."Constantinople features five backward-incompatible changes to the network, from minor code optimizations to more controversial changes like one that would reduce the amount of new ETH created with each transaction block.
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