v6.0.0 - Orion

Summary

This release is a mandatory upgrade. Please make sure you upgrade before block 1,791,793.

Orion is the next hard fork for Ubiq and is planned to activate at block 1,791,793, currently estimated for January 10, 2022.

Announcement blog post: https://blog.ubiqsmart.com/announcing-the-orion-hard-fork-and-gubiq-6-0-30f9265b9b6c

Changes

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

This update will activate the following UIPs

UIP	omit or include
10 (Aries hard fork update)	include
11 (Fee market change)	include
12 (Reduce Target Time for Blocks)	include
13 (Change Block Rewards)	include (modified via UIP-16)
14 (Orion hard fork update)	include
16 (Change block rewards + Consolidate hard forks to one hard fork)	include

Which includes activating the following EIPs from the Ethereum Berlin and London upgrades.

EIP	omit or include
2565 (ModExp Gas Cost)	include
2929 (Gas cost increases for state access opcodes)	include
2718 (Typed Transaction Envelope)	include
2930 (Optional access lists)	include
3198 (BASEFEE opcode)	include
3529 (Alternative refund reduction)	include
3541 (Reject new contracts starting with the 0xEF byte)	include
1559 (Fee market change)	include
3228 (💣 delay)	omit

% shasum -a 256 gubiq-*
1786a099f054b4e0777c616a660614add36f3918091b8f28662c4f1f5cd6be3e  gubiq-darwin-amd64
54182f803e94eb9af073332793f2ab6c5f1fb706fb10470d74d740b9a7514fbe  gubiq-linux-amd64
778c2662fbf35869e5a449b6643cf0a4247c37fe121a65befa323202e7131d5b  gubiq-linux-arm64
31a8dd7305955154a2e83b43396bfd8d92b43e0f753fb1dc4b0362930413e05c  gubiq-linux-arm7
6e2a86712db9447c07fbfa236d21149f9fb0f757fc63974366483b8257a49bef  gubiq-windows-amd64.exe