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Ethereum Dev Finds Issue Ahead Of Shanghai's Shapella Upgrade

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Other clients also reported the same issue. VanDerWijden said the team found that Go Ethereum (Geth) client nodes facing difficulty syncing with the Zhejiang testnet. advertisement “The last 4 and a half stressful hours of debugging culminated in this amazing bug fix. We got reports that geth nodes wouldn’t sync the Zhejiang devnet correctly. The issue was that if a block body was empty (no tx, no withdrawals) we wouldn’t initialize it correctly.” However, developers believe the problem can be fixed with a patch as it’s fairly easy to test. In addition, core developer Tim Beiko asserts an additional Hive test is proposed for ensuring the issue is resolved correctly. Interestingly, Ethereum core developers think the issue likely will not impact the Sepolia upgrade scheduled on February 28 at 4 AM UTC. The client releases for the upgrade and blog on the same will be announced early next week. Trending Stories ...

Ethereum News: "Holli (Holesovice)" Testnet To Solve ETH Supply Issues

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Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko in a tweet on February 24 announced that the team plans to launch the Holli testnet near September 15, 2023. The plan to launch a new testnet has been in process since the Merge upgrade last September. advertisement A new testnet , Holli, is planned to launch later this year, and hopefully we can figure out these things before then! I've made two suggestions on the repo, and would love to hear from application layer devs about how we could better approach this! — timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) February 23, 2023 Trending Stories ETH Price Prediction: New Recovery Cycle in Ethereum Price Hints a 10% Rally Ahead 24/7 Cryptocurrency News PEPE Price Prediction: This Chart Pattern may Determine if PEPE Token Price will Rally 70% or Fall 40% 24/7 Cryptocurrency News Bitcoin Price Reversal from a Healthy Retracement Level Hints 6% Jump; Enter Today? 24/7 Cryptocurrency News ADA Price Pr...

Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade: Dev Set Sepolia Upgrade Time

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Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko on February 22 announced that the Sepolia Shapella upgrade is scheduled for February 28 at 4 AM UTC. advertisement According to a blog by Ethereum Foundation, the Shapella (Shanghai/Capella) network upgrade will be activated on the Sepolia testnet at block height 56832, which is expected at 04:04:48 UTC on February 28. The upgrade will enable validators to withdraw their Ethereum staked on the Beacon Chain to the execution layer. It will also introduce new functions to both the execution and consensus layers. Full Ethereum staked withdrawal capability will be available with the Shanghai upgrade. The Shapella upgrade introduces changes to the execution layer (Shanghai), consensus layer (Capella), and the Engine API. Ethereum users or ETH holders don’t have to upgrade anything. However, stakers and non-staking node operators are required to upgrade nodes to Ethereum client releases for the Sepolia upgrade. ...