Ethereum Foundation postpones Hoodi testnet Glamsterdam upgrade; new date not yet determined
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The Ethereum Foundation announced that the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet has been postponed, and the new date has not yet been determined.
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Ethereum Foundation postpones Hoodi testnet Glamsterdam upgrade; new date not yet determined
BlockBeats reports,October 23, the Ethereum Foundation announced that the Glamsterdam upgrade originally scheduled for October 26, 2026 will be postponed 17: 42: 48（UTC) on the Hoodi testnet, and the new activation date has not yet been determined. Core developers decided to postpone the upgrade at the 248 th Ethereum Consensus Layer Developers Meeting (ACDE #248) to further investigate the interactions between EIP-8037 and smart contracts on the Ethereum mainnet.
The postponement will cancel the originally scheduled Amsterdam execution-layer activation and Gloas consensus-layer activation, while also withdrawing the plan to raise the Hoodi testnet gas limit to 1 during the same 200000000 cycle. The Ethereum Foundation stressed that this adjustment only rolls back the configuration for future upgrades and will not roll back historical on-chain data on the Hoodi testnet. The upgrade originally scheduled for October 26 is no longer planned, and the new activation cycle and specific date will be announced later.
Original link https://m.theblockbeats.info/flash/373451
Key points
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The Ethereum Foundation announced that the Glamsterdam upgrade originally scheduled for October 26, 2026 will be postponed 17: 42: 48（UTC) on the Hoodi testnet will be postponed.
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Core developers decided at the 248 th Ethereum Consensus Layer Developers Meeting to postpone the upgrade to further investigate the interactions between EIP-8037 and smart contracts on the Ethereum mainnet.
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The originally scheduled Amsterdam execution-layer activation and Gloas consensus-layer activation will be canceled.
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The plan to raise the Hoodi testnet gas limit to 1 during the same 200000000 cycle will also be withdrawn.
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This adjustment will not roll back historical on-chain data on the Hoodi testnet.
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The new activation cycle and specific date will be announced later.
AI-assisted interpretation
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A testnet upgrade is a phased arrangement for developers to verify new features. This postponement means that the originally scheduled upgrade will no longer proceed on October 26, the related configuration will be withdrawn, but existing historical on-chain data on Hoodi will not be rolled back.
Why it matters to readers
The postponement of the upgrade will change the Hoodi testnet's subsequent arrangements; the new activation date and the results of the EIP-8037 interaction investigation still await subsequent publication.
For ordinary users, the report concerns a Hoodi testnet upgrade, not a rollback of Hoodi's historical data.
Risks and unknowns
The new activation date and specific time have not yet been determined.
EIP-8037 The results of the further investigation into interactions with smart contracts on the Ethereum mainnet have not yet been published.
It remains unclear whether the Amsterdam execution-layer and Gloas consensus-layer activation arrangements will be reinstated.
The information comes from BlockBeats' account and should be verified against subsequent announcements from the Ethereum Foundation.
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