The Tezos network has activated a protocol update called Florence, which is the sixth Tezos update. It was initiated by Nomadic Labs, Marigold, DaiLambda, и Tarides.
https://twitter.com/tezos/status/1391937291531300869 https://medium.com/tqtezos/florence-tezos-sixth-protocol-upgrade-goes-live-bringing-further-gas-optimizations-more-557836cc63ba171 bakers participated in the voting on the proposals of Nomadic Labs, Marigold, DaiLambda, и Tarides they account for 59.61% of the votes
https://www.tezosagora.org/period/43Major changes to Florence:
- Expansion of the maximum size of operations from 16 to 32 KB. Smart contract size doubled developers can create more complex applications.
- Optimization of gas consumption. The platform executes complex smart contracts at a lower cost.
- Changing the order of relationships between smart contracts. Previously, the treatment between them was based on the principle of breadth first [first in — first out], now-depth first [first in — last out]; It is easier for developers to design connections between smart contracts.
- Changing the edit process. The update disabled the test network feature in the Tezos economic protocol. In practice, it has never been used