On November 10, 2026, PANews reported that Ethlabs, an independent non-profit Ethereum research and development organization, recommended that no specification changes be made to the Glamsterdam upgrade and that a Hoodi testnet upgrade not be scheduled until external audit results are published and clear conclusions are reached.
The Ethereum Foundation has commissioned Chain Security and Dedaub to conduct external audits of whether EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 could affect contracts that are already deployed. Those results are expected before November 16. The ACD testing meeting that day is to include a public AMA with application developers, core developers, the Ethereum Foundation, Ethlabs, and the auditors. The ACD execution-layer meeting on November 19 may take a position on the audit results, including whether to modify the specification or not to advance the fork under the existing plan.
This account follows PANews’s report of Ethlabs’ recommendation and the stated review schedule. Original report: PANews, November 10, 2026.
