There is little time for the upcoming HF20 activation date. After the fix for the recent blockchain halt, I have switched my witness node from 0.19.12 to 0.20.1 and produced a block already.
$ steemd -v
steem_blockchain_version: 0.20.1
steem_git_revision: de88134b69e50d5d4cd56484a56f00fa16faef78
fc_git_revision: de88134b69e50d5d4cd56484a56f00fa16faef78
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STARTING STEEM NETWORK
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initminer public key: STM8GC13uCZbP44HzMLV6zPZGwVQ8Nt4Kji8PapsPiNq1BK153XTX
chain id: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
blockchain version: 0.20.1
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I do manual builds and compiling, so fetching the v0.20.1 tag, and compiling it is enough. Migrating from 0.19.12 to HF20 requires a blockchain replay.
I see some other witnesses complaining about the long replay times, so dropping here my stats for the reference:
My server's CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz and it took 3 hours, 40 minutes to catch up with the block production.
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