Ethereum (ETH) progress: Planned Constantinople fork and resolution of spy mining
Within one month after Devcon, release on the mainnet
According to the biweekly developers' meeting held on the 12th, the code has already been coded into the main ETH client (node). The meeting included participants from the Ethereum Foundation and the UK startup Parity (1*).
Developers say that a live upgrade within the year is highly likely. Still, a specific date has not been confirmed yet. (Usually, a date can be estimated because the code is embedded to activate at a particular block.)
Constantinople includes five backwards-incompatible (2*) changes to the network, ranging from minor code optimizations to reductions in mining rewards for each block.
To ensure a smooth live upgrade of Constantinople, the new code will first be tested on the testnet “Ropsten.” The fork on this testnet, scheduled for October 9, has been delayed, but is planned to occur within the next few days. It has been reported that this delay is due to a bug found in one of the five changes of Constantinople or a DoS (Denial of Service) attack.
