Ethlabs Suggests Delaying Hoodi Testnet Fork Date, External Audit Expected to be Released Before November 16

Ethlabs stated that EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 in the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade involve adjustments to gas costs and billing mechanisms, which may affect some already deployed smart contracts. Ethlabs recommends postponing modifications to the upgrade specifications or determining the fork date for the Hoodi testnet until the results of the external audit are released and the related impacts are clarified. The final decision will be made by the Ethereum Core Developers Meeting (ACD). The two external audits commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation, conducted by ChainSecurity and Dedaub, are expected to be published before November 16. On the same day, a public Q&A session will be held during the ACD testing meeting. The ACD executive meeting on November 19 is expected to discuss the audit results and may decide whether to modify the upgrade specifications. Glamsterdam aims to increase the Ethereum gas limit per block from 60 million to 200 million. Ethlabs pointed out that adjustments to gas costs may affect contracts and tools with hardcoded operational costs, and changes in the billing mechanism may also lead to unexpected behaviors in some deployed contracts. For example, after an internal call rollback, the remaining gas returned by gasleft() may increase, affecting the contract's judgment on whether the call failed due to gas exhaustion.

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