# \[Action Required\] Flow Testnet: Upgrade your Testnet Access Node and EVM GW node

**URL:** <https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-upgrade-your-testnet-access-node-and-evm-gw-node/8281>\
**Category:** Node Operations\
**Created:** [September 17, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-upgrade-your-testnet-access-node-and-evm-gw-node/8281 "2025-09-17T17:09:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![vishal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vishal](https://forum.flow.com/u/vishal)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-upgrade-your-testnet-access-node-and-evm-gw-node/8281/1 "2025-09-17T17:09:34Z")

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The Flow **Testnet** network upgrade is now complete.

**Access Node**

You can now start your Access node by following step 1 and 2 ( [Flow Developer Portal](https://docs.onflow.org/node-operation/spork/#step-1---cleaning-up-previous-spork-state) ).

Docker image tag: `v0.43.0`  
Pull token - `testnet-53` (if you are not indexing execution state data)  
Pull token - `testnet-53-execution`  
Start height is: `280224020`

**EVM Gateway**

Please update your EVM GW to docker tag `v1.3.3` (updated tag) and update the following flag:  
`–access-node-spork-hosts=access-001.devnet52.nodes.onflow.org:9000`  
and  
`–access-node-spork-hosts=access.devnet.nodes.onflow.org:9000` or point it to the gRPC endpoint of your own access node if you are running one.

Thank you,

Flow Team

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**Author:** ![vishal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vishal](https://forum.flow.com/u/vishal)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-upgrade-your-testnet-access-node-and-evm-gw-node/8281/2 "2025-09-18T00:46:20Z")

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Please see follow up announcement: [[Action Required] Flow Testnet: Please ensure the pebble-dir flag is set correctly on the Testnet Access Node](https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-please-ensure-the-pebble-dir-flag-is-set-correctly-on-the-testnet-access-node/8282)

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**Author:** ![vishal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vishal](https://forum.flow.com/u/vishal)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/action-required-flow-testnet-upgrade-your-testnet-access-node-and-evm-gw-node/8281/3 "2025-09-22T18:08:15Z")

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Please use the EVM Gateway tag [`v1.3.3`](https://github.com/onflow/flow-evm-gateway/releases/tag/v1.3.3) (instead of v1.3.2 which was previously shared).