v5.0.0 - Taurus 🐂

Summary

This release is a mandatory upgrade. Please make sure you upgrade before block 1,500,000.

Taurus is the next hard fork for Ubiq and is planned to activate at block 1,500,000, currently estimated for March 20, 2021.

For more information, see our blog post: https://blog.ubiqsmart.com/announcing-the-taurus-hard-fork-and-gubiq-5-0-3184c5564fcf

Changes

The Taurus hark fork has been in development and testing for the past few months by the Ubiq core development team.

This update will activate Istanbul EIP’s from upstream Ethereum.

This release also sets the default miner minimum gas price from 1 to 10 Gwei. Historically, this was originally set as 18 Gwei however this was set to 1 Gwei in a merge from upstream Geth. This change helps to promote a healthier fee market moving forward.

The next release of Gubiq is anticipated to be a maintenance release that will also include some new features from the Ubiq team including more advanced transaction tracing.

Support for Go 1.15

All binaries have been built with the latest Go 1.15.7 and compatibility changes have been integrated.

Checksums

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