Gingerbread Hard Fork: Timeline & Specification Update [All Core Devs call on Aug 18]

[matt]

the baklava release including the updates discussed above is live: please update if you agree with these changes to the protocol!

Baklava Gingerbread Hard Fork Release: Sep 1, ~14.00 UTC

Dear Validator Community, The Gingerbread Hard Fork is proposed on Baklava for block #19157000 targeting an activation around Sep 1, ~14:00 UTC Validators, if you agree with this hard fork, please upgrade both your validator nodes and proxies to v1.8.0-beta.2 (see github for release) For more details on the changes introduced with this hard fork, please refer to the original hard fork announcement on the forum. Thanks to all the validators for their support of the Celo network! The best plac…