The long-awaited Ethereum Merge has finally started as Ethereum clients release updates in preparations for the Merge on September 15. However, the Go Ethereum and Nethermind have found bugs in their Mainnet updates Geth v1.10.22 (Promavess) and v1.14.0, respectively. Still, the bugs are unlikely to delay the Merge as developers perform quick fixes and the availability of other execution clients.
Ethereum Clients Report Bugs in the Mainnet Merge Updates
The Ethereum clients Go Ethereum and Nethermind have found bugs in their Mainnet Merge updates. Ethereum developer Peter Szilagyi in a tweet on August 23 announced a regression bug in the Geth v1.10.22 (Promavess). It is one of the pull requests (PR) the team merged towards the new storage model or online pruner.
“Aaand our latest release is borked. Geth 1.10.22 contains a regression that causes the trie/state to go bad. Most probably it’s one of the PRs we’ve merged towards the new storage model / online pruner. Trying to find and fix the issue.”
The Go Ethereum team is currently looking to find and fix the issue.
Nethermind core developer “DanielC” replied to Peter Szilagyi’s tweet saying a similar regression bug was found in the release v1.14.0. However, the team has fixed the issue by deciding to switch to a strict stabilization phase before the Merge.
