# Flow Mainnet spork on 8th November at 3:00 PM UTC

**URL:** <https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-spork-on-8th-november-at-3-00-pm-utc/5272>\
**Category:** Node Operations\
**Tags:** spork\
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-spork-on-8th-november-at-3-00-pm-utc/5272 "2023-10-11T02:28:34Z")\
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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:** [October 11, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/flow-mainnet-spork-on-8th-november-at-3-00-pm-utc/5272/1 "2023-10-11T02:28:35Z")

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Flow Mainnet will be sporking on the **8th of November (2023-11-08) at 08:00 AM PT (3 PM UTC)**, going from Mainnet-23 to Mainnet-24.

Flow Mainnet will be unavailable between 8:00 AM PT to 11:00 AM PT on that day.

Please note this is an expected **3 hours** of downtime.

Once the Spork is complete, the network will again start accepting transactions.

If you are running a Flow access node, please shut it down before 8:00 AM PT on November 8th.

Thank you,

The Flow Foundation