According to an update from Founder Charles Hoskinson, the Hard Fork Combinator (HFC) event will take place on the 1st of March. Noting that the HFC will likely clear all the quality assurance and developer checks on 24 February, Hoskinson added that the actual event will be in the five days that follow its initial trigger from the previous epoch.
Users on the network will have to upgrade their nodes by downloading the latest version of Daedalus in order to gain access to this network upgrade.