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Polygon Forks First, Publishes Source Later

Polygon Forks First, Publishes Source Later

Polygon hardforked its mainnet this morning. The source code showed up afterward.

Heimdall's Karwar upgrade went live on Polygon PoS at 08:54 UTC Nov. 3 (3:54 AM ET). Validators ran a private build first. The public v0.13.2, "functionally identical," was published once the fork was already active. Listed changes: size-bounded vote extensions and canonical checkpoint signatures.

Same playbook as Kyoto in August and Lugano in October, which Polygon called a "private security release." Nodes that missed the memo "stopped at the Karwar height."

Patching quietly before attackers can read the diff is defensible. It also makes it open source on a tape delay.

Source: Polygon Community Forum: Heimdall v0.13.2 released for Mainnet and Amoy

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