Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on November 24, 2016

Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary:  An issue has been identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The new Geth release 1.5.3 fixes the journaling issue and repairs the fork. [Read More]

From Morden to Ropsten

Posted by Martin Swende on November 20, 2016

Testing a fork The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for the coming week; block 2675000 is likely to occur Tuesday evening (CET). The block number for the testnet “Morden” was scheduled at block 1885000. Performing the fork in the test network prior to performing it in the main network was... [Read More]

Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon

Posted by Hudson Jameson on November 18, 2016

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2,675,000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. The Morden test network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 1,885,000. [Read More]

Analysis of Storage Corruption Bug

Posted by Christian Reitwiessner on November 9, 2016

This blog post provides an update on our findings following the discovery of the storage corruption bug last week. In summary, the bug was much less severe than we initially thought. The small number of affected contracts we found is either only exploitable by the owner, or the exploit can only cause a disruption in... [Read More]