Ethlabs recommends holding off on Glamsterdam upgrade decision until audit results are released

November 10: Ethlabs, an independent non-profit Ethereum research and development organization, posted a statement recommending that no specification changes be made to the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade, and that the Hoodi testnet upgrade not be scheduled, until external audit results are published and a clear conclusion is reached. The Ethereum Foundation has commissioned Chain Security and Dedaub to conduct an external audit of issues in EIP-8037/8038 that could affect already-deployed contracts, with results expected to be published before November 16; the ACD testing call that day will host a public AMA involving application developers, core developers, the Ethereum Foundation, Ethlabs and the auditors, and the November 19 ACD execution layer call may take a position on the audit results, including whether to modify the specification and to not proceed with the fork under the current plan. Ethlabs said that none of the issues identified so far are exploitable, and that if the severity of the issues is unacceptable, it will consider modifying the specification or substantially adjusting the scope of Glamsterdam. Glamsterdam plans to raise the block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million.

Earlier report: the Ethereum Foundation called on contract developers and auditors to check whether their projects rely on the 8 invariants that would be broken by EIP-8037/8038.