Yesterday, I updated according to the post. Today, I updated with the second update and all seemed fine, however when I checked one of the last blocks (getblock
Almost certainly that block was mined on a fork that was orphaned. The RPC issue was our nodes getting blocked yesterday, which led to a number of problems. We have addressed that issue, but we are still investigating sync problems right now. If you got up to date on the network and don't see the block, 99.9% (or more) chance that it was just mined on an orphaned chain.
Are you saying that it was also mined by someone else, and that's why it was orphaned, or something else?
Was it normal that I was on another chain despite having installed the (first) update before the deadline? It seems the second update is mandatory to mine on the right/strongest chain, if so, can you please make a(n official) post about it here?
Glad to hear that you are working on fixing issues, not that I doubted it in the first place . Keep up the good work.