Ethereum's next major network upgrade will not be activated on the Hoodi testnet yet, with developers holding back the fork until open security questions about its gas-accounting changes are resolved.
Ethereum Foundation developer Marius van der Wijden disclosed the decision in a developer update dated November 6. The Glamsterdam upgrade, which bundles changes to how the network handles gas, remains paused on Hoodi pending clarity on those security issues.
The delay comes as developers work through a separate fix tied to the upgrade's consensus-layer work. A code change addressing a validator public-key cache poisoning vulnerability in one of Ethereum's consensus clients has been merged on GitHub, according to a report citing UToday.
The flaw is linked to Gloas, the consensus-layer component of Glamsterdam. Under certain conditions, a validator's public-key information could be stored incorrectly, causing some nodes to treat otherwise valid signatures as invalid. If exploited, that could split some nodes from the legitimate chain and produce a fork.
The merged fix changes the client so that a public key is written to the global cache only after a validator's activation eligibility has been finalized. That prevents validator records from different chains from conflicting with one another.
Neither the timing for resuming the Hoodi fork nor a new target date for the full upgrade was disclosed.
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