At the All Core Developers Executives (ACDE) meeting held on Thursday, Ethereum developers agreed that if everything goes according to plan, they will set a Goerli fork date in early 2024 and launch Dencun on the test network in January.
Goerli is Ethereum’s first multi-client test network, and in the coming months, Goerli will stop accepting support from Ethereum clients and the Ethereum Foundation test team. Dencun will also be the last upgrade deployed on the network.
Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko summarized the discussions at the ACDE meeting on the X platform. He suggested that if no major bugs are found in the clients on Devnet 12, developers should coordinate a hard fork shortly after the holidays.
Beiko also created a Meta EIP document before Dencun, listing all the Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) included in the upgrade. The last item on the agenda is the Prague/Electra network upgrade plan, where certain code updates require simultaneous changes to the execution layer and client layer, so the Prague and Electra upgrades need to be coordinated simultaneously.
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