tl;dr
Altair is quick approaching. Improve your nodes! Now!
🚨Improve to Altair earlier than Oct 27🚨
As talked about within the previous Finalized post,
Altair is scheduled to go reside at epoch 74240 — Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC. See the Altair Mainnet Announcement for particulars on who, how, and why.
Suffice it to say right here that the improve is in roughly one week, so the time to improve your node is now. In case you run a validator on the beacon chain, you should improve earlier than the Altair improve epoch or else you’ll expertise downtime penalties.
Word: 4 of the 5 mainnet shoppers — Nimbus, Teku, Lighthouse, and Prysm — have made minor model releases for the reason that unique Altair announcement (up to date record here). As a result of these new releases include a mixture of safety patches and optimizations, we extremely suggest operating the most recent shopper launch even if in case you have already upgraded for Altair.
Improve now! 🚀