Ethereum News: While Ethereum’s Constantinople upgrade is expected to massively improve the working of the Ethereum (ETH) network, the release date has been pushed multiple time. This time around the delay can be blamed to a critical vulnerability that was discovered in one of the planned changes.
ChainSecurity, smart contract audit firm pointed out on Tuesday that Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)1283 could provide hackers easier access to the code for stealing user funds. A discussion on a call between ETH developers, the developers of clients and other projects running the network agreed that the hard fork shall be delayed temporarily to asses the issue.
The on-call participants included ETH creator Vitalik Buterin, developers Hudson Jameson, Nick Johnson, Evan Van Ness, and Parity release manager Afri Schoedon, among others. The new release date will be decided during another ethereum dev call on Friday.
The original timing for release was set to be 04:00 UTC on Jan. 17. The project’s core developers have decided that the bug would take longer to be fixed, thus the delay was inevitable. Dubbed as a reentrancy attack, the bug will enable an attacker to “reenter” the same function multiple times without updating the user about it.
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