The Street to Altair version 🛣⭐️
tl;dr
Pyrmont forks, testing in progress
After a collection of small however very precious Altair devnets, Pyrmont — a big public testnet — upgraded final week. The transition to Altair went off with no hitch, setting the stage for the subsequent wave of testing and upgrades.
This week, Pyrmont is being put by way of the ringer as we run quite a lot of check situations on the soon-to-be-deprecated testnet. Do not panic! On the time of writing, Pyrmont is already 482 epochs with out finality with a big share of validators taken offline for a number of days. Such exams assist shake out nook instances within the consensus code as properly spotlight consumer points in dealing with load underneath distinctive situations.
Prater up subsequent
With Pyrmont upgraded, Prater — a bigger and longer-term testnet — is up subsequent. Consumer groups have agreed on a September 2nd (12pm UTC) improve date. See full configuration for Altair Prater community right here.
Preserve your eyes peeled for consumer releases that embody the Prater fork configuration. These ought to drop over the subsequent week and permit you to improve your testnet nodes in preparation for the fork subsequent Thursday.
After the Prater improve, it is a good time to induce varied operations on the community — exit a validator, get your self slashed — have enjoyable!
When mainnet Altair?
Though there’s nonetheless a lot to do between right here and there, the Altair mainnet fork is quick approaching. Assuming a comparatively uneventful testing of Pyrmont and a profitable Prater improve, consumer groups are focusing on an end-of-September Altair mainnet launch 🚀
