# Breaking change coming to Flow Epoch Smart Contracts for Automatic Rewards

**URL:** <https://forum.flow.com/t/breaking-change-coming-to-flow-epoch-smart-contracts-for-automatic-rewards/4517>\
**Category:** Node Operations\
**Created:** [March 28, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/breaking-change-coming-to-flow-epoch-smart-contracts-for-automatic-rewards/4517 "2023-03-28T19:27:22Z")\
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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:** [March 28, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/breaking-change-coming-to-flow-epoch-smart-contracts-for-automatic-rewards/4517/1 "2023-03-28T19:27:22Z")

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> [@Breaking change coming to Flow Epoch Smart Contracts for Automatic Rewards](http://forum.flow.com/t/breaking-change-coming-to-flow-epoch-smart-contracts-for-automatic-rewards/4516):
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> The Flow team has tentative plans to enable automatic staking rewards payments on mainnet on April 27th after the next network spork on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. This will not break any smart contracts, but any software that is monitoring events for rewards payments will be affected and will need to update their software to remain compatible. More information is below. Expected dates to get the changes in effect is as follows: CanaryNet: Wednesday, April 5th Testnet: Thursday, April 6th And…