# DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma

DevFeed: [DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dao-wars-your-voice-on-the-soft-fork-dilemma-16766.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/24/dao-wars-youre-voice-soft-fork-dilemma>)

Author: Péter Szilágyi

Published: 2016-06-24T17:46:38Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>)

Tags: [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [protocol-announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol-announcements.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces Geth 1.4.8, codenamed "DAO Wars," and a corresponding Parity mechanism to let Ethereum miners decide whether to support a temporary soft fork affecting DAO fund-release transactions. It explains the proposal's consequences, including its potential impact on legitimately split DAOs.

## Source excerpt

The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than we originally anticipated; but also that it takes a surprising amount of debate to reach a consensus on issues of this scale. ...