Ethereum developers have postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi test network after security researchers warned that proposed gas-accounting changes could alter how existing smart contracts handle failed transactions — potentially making errors permanent.
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The upgrade was scheduled to activate on October 26 at 17:42:48 UTC, but developers called it off during Thursday’s All Core Devs Execution meeting to investigate the flagged risk.
Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Test After Security Devs Flag Risk to Existing Contracts
The concern centers on EIP-8037, which changes how Ethereum charges for creating new records in its database — a move designed to limit the growth of that database as the network increases its transaction throughput.
According to researchers at ChainSecurity, the changes in EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 could leave some contracts with more or less gas than expected, meaning otherwise valid operations could fail, or failed operations could be permanently recorded on-chain.
That is exactly the kind of subtle breakage Ethereum’s developers fear most: a change that works on paper but behaves differently against the vast body of contracts already deployed on mainnet.
No New Date for Hoodi Test or Mainnet Upgrade
No replacement date has been announced for the Hoodi test or its planned 200 million gas limit, and Ethereum’s mainnet upgrade date remains unconfirmed. The delay pushes back one of the key steps in Ethereum’s roadmap for scaling throughput.
Delays like this are the system working as designed: test networks exist so that breaking changes get caught before they touch the billions of dollars secured by Ethereum smart contracts. For users and holders, nothing changes today — the news matters mainly as a read on how carefully the upgrade pipeline is being managed.
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