Safety Alert – [Implementation bug in Go clients causing increase in difficulty – Fixed – Miners check and update Go clients]

Implementation bug within the go consumer results in regular improve of issue unbiased of hashing energy.

Affected configurations: All Go consumer variations v1.0.x, v1.1.x, launch and develop branches. The bug was launched in a latest replace and launch by way of commit https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/7324176f702a77fc331bf16a968d2eb4bccce021 which went into the affected consumer variations. All miners operating earlier talked about variations are affected and are suggested to replace as quickly as doable.

Chance: Excessive

Severity: Medium

Impression: Improve in block time will result in an exponential improve in issue

Particulars: A bug within the go consumer results in regular improve in issue within the following block, as timestamp in new block = timestamp + 1 of previous block, whatever the precise time, when mining. This results in a rise within the issue independently of the hashing energy

Results on anticipated chain reorganisation depth: None

Proposed momentary workaround: None

Remedial motion taken by Ethereum: Provision of hotfixes as under:

If utilizing the PPA: sudo apt-get replace then sudo apt-get improve

If utilizing brew: brew replace then brew reinstall ethereum

If utilizing a home windows binary: obtain the up to date binary from the release page

In case you are constructing from supply: git pull adopted by make geth (please use the Grasp department 587669215b878566c4a7b91fbf88a6fd2ec4f46a)