Reporting date: November 10, 2026, 17:53 (UTC+8).
PANews reported that Ethlabs, an independent non-profit research and development organization for Ethereum, had published a recommendation on the Glamsterdam upgrade. Ethlabs advised against making specification changes to Glamsterdam, and against scheduling a Hoodi testnet upgrade, until external audit results are published and a clear conclusion is formed.
What is under review
The Ethereum Foundation had commissioned Chain Security and Dedaub to conduct external audits of whether EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 could affect contracts that are already deployed. In this report those identifiers are improvement proposals under audit. They are not described as an activated network upgrade, an ERC, a client release, or a change already deployed.
The audit results were expected before November 16, 2026.
Meetings named in the November 10 report
The report named two All Core Developers (ACD) sessions. It did not report decisions from either one:
- On November 16, 2026 — the day by which the results were expected — the ACD testing meeting would hold a public AMA. Participants named were application developers, core developers, the Ethereum Foundation, Ethlabs, and the auditors.
- On November 19, 2026, the ACD execution-layer meeting might take a position on the audit results. Possibilities mentioned include whether to modify the specification and whether not to proceed with the fork under the current plan.
Status as of this report
As of the November 10, 2026 report, Glamsterdam is an upgrade whose specification Ethlabs asked not to change yet, and a Hoodi testnet upgrade is something Ethlabs asked not to schedule yet. Neither step is described as done. Any later choice to revise the specification, or not to advance the fork on the existing plan, was left to the audit conclusions and to the meetings above.
Original article: PANews, November 10, 2026, 17:53 UTC+8.
