Ethereum Foundation Warns Tools May Break With Glamsterdam Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation is warning developers that some tools may break due to gas-model changes in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.
The foundation's Protocol DevOps team said any tool relying on a hardcoded maximum gas limit 'will break' and must be updated. They urged developers to test their systems on Plataberget, a public testnet launched on Aug. 13 that will operate for several months.
The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the network on Thursday, before its deployment on the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets.
The foundation said EIP-8037 would introduce a separate state-gas dimension for operations that create new state. This means a plain ETH transfer to an existing account will still cost 21,000 gas, but sending ETH to a new account will incur an additional state-gas charge.