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Yes.. it is true that the fork has been called off, take a look at these recent news. A small setback for a greater leap, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It seems like the fork wouldn't have succeeded, even if they had followed through with it:
https://twitter.com/AaronvanW/status/931513254861471749Apparently there's a bug in BT1's node code that would have prevented the hardfork from being triggered in the first place. This "upgrade" would have basically shut down the Bitcoin network until a patch were to be released and widely deployed.