Apricot Phase Four on Avalanche
Apricot Phase Four will activate on the Avalanche Mainnet at 5 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. UTC) on Wednesday, September 22nd.
Following a successful AP4 activation on the Fuji Testnet, Avalanche Mainnet AP4 activation has been scheduled for 5 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. UTC) on Wednesday, September 22nd. The code ([email protected]) for Avalanche Mainnet activation can be found here.
Because this upgrade includes protocol optimizations that are not compatible with AvalancheGo versions < v1.6.0, your node will be marked as offline if you don’t upgrade by the activation time. If your node is a validator, that means other nodes will report your node as having lower uptime, which may jeopardize your staking rewards.
This morning, the pre-release code was published for Phase Four of the Apricot Upgrade (“AP4”), which will activate at 5 p.m. EDT (9 p.m. UTC) on Thursday, September 16th on the Fuji Testnet. Note, this pre-release code only works on Fuji. If you run it on Mainnet, it will exit on startup.
Pending a successful AP4 activation on Fuji, the Avalanche Mainnet AP4 activation time will be announced and the official AP4 AvalancheGo release (v1.6.0) will be published.
This upgrade includes protocol optimizations that are not compatible with AvalancheGo versions < v1.6.0. If you run a node on Fuji Testnet, it is recommended that you update your software to AvalancheGo >= v1.6.0 before the activation time on Fuji. If you are a Mainnet node operator, there is no action required until the official [email protected] code is published.
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