HardFork 0.20.0 Might Be Closer Than We Think - And No, It's Not The One Enabling SMT (Yet)

As I already wrote a few times, one of my favorite pastimes is to peruse the Steem GitHub repository. Not only to stay informed, as a witness, about the state of the blockchain, but also to spot any potentially disruptive changes before they actually occur.

While doing my regular check this morning I observed something interesting.

In my last post about the SMT status, I pointed out there are two possible hardforks in the projects pipeline: 0.20.0 and 0.21.0. All the SMT code was in the 0.21.0 branch and I was left thinking what's the role of the 0.20.0 milestone.

And today I saw that an inconsistency between the protocol and p2p code was observed and, given the fact that it is a bit pressing, it will be addressed in this 0.20.0 hardfork.

There is no set date for it, but I'd bet on a rather soonish release.

This is not a UI problem so most likely regular users will not even notice.

For witnesses, though, this might be a mandatory upgrade.

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