Summary
This release is a mandatory upgrade. Please make sure you upgrade before block 1,791,793.
Orion is the next hard fork for Ubiq and is planned to activate at block 1,791,793, currently estimated for January 10, 2022.
Announcement blog post: https://blog.ubiqsmart.com/announcing-the-orion-hard-fork-and-gubiq-6-0-30f9265b9b6c
Changes
The Orion hark fork has been in development and testing for the past few months by the Ubiq core development team.
This update will activate the following UIPs
| UIP | omit or include |
|---|---|
| 10 (Aries hard fork update) | include |
| 11 (Fee market change) | include |
| 12 (Reduce Target Time for Blocks) | include |
| 13 (Change Block Rewards) | include (modified via UIP-16) |
| 14 (Orion hard fork update) | include |
| 16 (Change block rewards + Consolidate hard forks to one hard fork) | include |
Which includes activating the following EIPs from the Ethereum Berlin and London upgrades.
| EIP | omit or include |
|---|---|
| 2565 (ModExp Gas Cost) | include |
| 2929 (Gas cost increases for state access opcodes) | include |
| 2718 (Typed Transaction Envelope) | include |
| 2930 (Optional access lists) | include |
| 3198 (BASEFEE opcode) | include |
| 3529 (Alternative refund reduction) | include |
| 3541 (Reject new contracts starting with the 0xEF byte) | include |
| 1559 (Fee market change) | include |
| 3228 (💣 delay) | omit |
% shasum -a 256 gubiq-*
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