Developers deploy fixes after Ethereum Pectra upgrade encounters obstacles on Sepolia test network

PANews March 6th news, according to The Block, Ethereum's Pectra upgrade encountered another hurdle in its latest testnet launch earlier on Wednesday. However, the developers have found the problem and introduced a fix. "We are investigating issues caused by custom deposit contracts on Sepolia, which has caused problems with some EL clients, including transactions in blocks," Tim Beiko, head of agreement support at Ethereum Foundation, said in a message on X on Wednesday. "In other words, the Pectra deployment on Sepolia seems to have broken the testnet, causing the block to fail to record transactions. So the testnet was basically down for about five hours. This problem seems to stem from a feature of Sepolia deposit contracts that “issues” data related to transaction transfers and deposits rather than bundling them into a message. "Some execution clients are stuck as a result and the transactions are stopped being included," said Rohit Jain, an executive of CoinDCX, on X.

About six hours after the error was discovered, Beiko pointed out that a hot fix had been found. "The client team has coordinated the fix and is trying to deploy it to the validator node. If everything goes well, we will release a more detailed update soon." According to Etherscan, the testnet began propagating blocks containing transactions about an hour before release. This is not the first time that Pectra upgrade deployment has problems. On February 24, the deployment of the Holesky test network failed due to chain split caused by a false verification configuration. Ethereum developers now expect the activation to take at least two weeks to complete. Pectra's mainnet deployment will only be attempted after the Holesky and Sepolia test networks are successfully upgraded. The Ethereum Foundation originally planned to release the mainnet in early April, but the testnet problem may be delayed to ensure that these issues do not reappear on the mainnet.