Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Test On Hoodi Over Smart Contract Compatibility Questions

TL;DR: Ethereum developers have removed the planned October 26 Glamsterdam activation on Hoodi while they investigate EIP-8037 interactions with existing contracts; no replacement date has been announced. Ethereum developers have pulled the October 26 activation of Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet, introducing a pause that matters directly to operators preparing for the next network upgrade. The Ethereum Foundation said Thursday that developers want additional time to investigate how EIP-8037 interacts with existing mainnet smart contracts. The old Hoodi target, October 26 at 17:42:48 UTC, epoch 132,352, is no longer valid. A replacement activation time has not been chosen. This is a testnet scheduling decision, not a rollback of transactions already confirmed on Hoodi, and it should not be presented as an announced delay to a specific Ethereum mainnet launch date. The change extends beyond one activation flag The decision removes the planned Amsterdam execution-layer activation and the Gloas consensus-layer activation from Hoodi's schedule. It also drops the accompanying plan to raise the testnet gas limit to 200 million at that epoch. Those details matter because network upgrades...