Introducing our next test network release:
💎 The Topaz Testnet 💎
☑️ 32 ETH deposits
☑️ Full mainnet configuration
☑️ Latest ETH2 phase 0 spec v0.11.1
☑️ Built on Goerli 💪
☑️ 70+ contributors
Send your test deposits now!
Genesis in a few days🧑💻
We are announcing v4.0.3-hotfix. This release contains the optimization to prevent the beacon node from high resource usage during turbulent times. It is highly recommended to upgrade if your node is under heavy usage.
See release notes for more info:
Introducing our next test network release:
💎The Onyx Testnet💎
✔️32 ETH deposits
✔️Full mainnet configuration
✔️Latest ETH2 phase 0 spec v0.12.1
✔️Multiclient ready
✔️80+ contributors
Send your test deposits now! 📨
Genesis in a few days ⏰
🎉 We are proud to promote Prysm to v1.0.0, it is ready for mainnet on December 1st, 2020
Check release notes for changes:
Follow our doc portal for guides:
Latest sharding update is out!
💎 Rebranding as an ethereum 2.0 team, renaming from geth-sharding to Prysm
💎 Latest merged code, pull requests, and issues
💎 Discussion on upcoming work
💎 New grant from Wanxiang Blockchain Labs
@WXblockchain
🥁🥁🥁 bi-weekly update is out! In this update we went over:
💎 Latest merged code, pull requests, and issues
💎 Future work
💎 Eth2.0 client implementers call
#1
New week, new development updates! This week:
🔸Massive bug fixes & efficiency improvements
🔸Optimize LMD GHOST fork choice rule
🔸New benchmark numbers
🔸Simple Serialize Caching
🔸Integrating spec v0.6 to run time, and more!
New release alert!
We are announcing v4.0.4. This release contains many optimizations since the last one. This is the first full release following the recent mainnet issue. It's highly recommended to upgrade to his release immediately.
Release notes:
🚨 Attention Prysm + Geth users! 🚨
Please hold off on updating Geth to v1.13.0 A bug has been identified in Geth that interferes with block production from Prysm.
Note: While most clients don't need local production with mev-boost, Prysm always validates against the local…
🐼v3.0.0 is here🐼
This is our mainnet merge release! All mainnet users MUST upgrade to the v3.0.0 release before the Bellatrix fork by Sep 6, 2022. Please visit release notes and documentation for further details ❤️
We have released Prysm v4.0.2. It includes a critical fix when the validator interacts with mev-boost. It's mandatory to upgrade if you are running mev-boost. V4.0.2 also contains misc optimizations and fixes. See release notes for detail.
🚨 Please update Prysm to v1.3.8-hotfix-6c0942
This release contains two critical fixes to resolve on-going issues in mainnet
See release note for further details and the full retrospective will be coming in the next few days
We are pleased to announce that we’ve selected
@Quantstamp
as our vendor for our first Prysm security audit! We received so many amazing proposals and met with many teams over the last two weeks.
@Quantstamp
really stood out to us and we are really excited to work with them!
Gm! We are releasing v3.1.1. It contains a fork choice bug fix which could lead to a memory leak and a gossipsub optimization. It's highly recommended you upgrade to this before the merge:
🎉New Prysm release v3.2.1🎉
This is our first official release for supporting the upcoming Capella / Shanghai network upgrade. It’s *mandatory on Sepolia testnet* & *recommended on Mainnet*. Change log & release binaries:
Announcing v4.0.0 for the upcoming Shapella upgrade!
This release is mandatory for all the mainnet beacon nodes and validators. You must upgrade before April 12. See release notes for further detail.
Earlier today, Prysm Beacon Nodes were unable to produce blocks for a period of 18 epochs (~2hours). This incident was widespread and resolved itself without intervention. Here's an initial update on our investigation.
Thread👇
An update on the mainnet block proposal incident!
The
@prylabs
team believes the incident is an extremely rare edge case. We have identified a potential solution, but we are working on increasing confidence to the highest level before issuing any emergency release.
Thread 👇
Prysm pre-genesis patch release!
- Several fixes in Prysm's UI
- Added more default bootnodes
- Updated go-ethereum version
- Log improvements
- And more
We recommend users update to this version. Please read the release notes:
🎉 New release v1.1.0 and it includes several significant changes.
Updating to this release is recommended at your earliest convenience, it is important to read the release notes before upgrading.👇
📣Release day! v2.0.0 is here!
⚠️You must update your prysm node and validator to v2.0.0 before Oct 27, 2021 or you will fork from rest of the network!
Full change list is available here:
New release drop!
v4.0.6 highly recommended to upgrade with bug fixes and optimizations to shorten block proposal time under various edge cases. Highlights:
Prysmatic Labs is seeking an external security assessment of Prysm! If your team conducts security audits and are familiar with ETH2, send us an email!
🐼Gm! We are excited to announce v3.1.0. It contains several bug fixes from v3.0.0. It's highly recommended to upgrade to v3.1.0 before the merge date. Release note for more info:
Prysm release v1.0.5 🎉
Updating to this release is highly recommended
Notable changes:
- Reduced disk I/O in validator client
- libp2p updated to 0.12.0
- Fallback option for eth1 nodes
See release notes for full change log:
We have a new release v3.1.2! 🎉
This release includes several bug fixes and improvements since the merge. We recommend upgrading at your earliest convenience!
Release notes:
🎉 Special update. 50th biweekly put together by amazing
@0xKiwi_
* Schreis Testnet 🌇 Witti Testnet 🌅
* Finality incidents reports
* Improvements on p2p networking, slasher and more!
* Ongoing progress with v0.12 and custom chain config testing
Gm. Announcing v4.0.3 with some important bug fixes for users with the mev-boost code path and key manager.
Recommended upgrade for everyone, but it especially improves those two areas of the application.
Notes and change list can be found here:
Prysm v1.3.7 release 🎉
This release contains bug fixes including changes to default cryptography library and upcoming changes for Altair network upgrade.
Updating to this release is strongly recommended.
The Topaz Testnet Launch Party will be hosted by /r/ethstaker tomorrow at 7:30pm ET!
Join us as we celebrate the genesis of our latest testnet release!
The Topaz Testnet from
@prylabs
now has a genesis time of April 18th, 2020 at 00:00:00 UTC!
In this genesis, we accepted around 5000 external deposits from users in our discord. Wow! 🤯
Should we have a virtual launch party?
New release v2.1.0 is here! 🎉
- Bellatrix (merge) support 🐼
- Web3signer support 🔑
- Early weak subjectivity sync support ⛓️
- Vectorized sha256 optimizations 🔥
- ... and many more optimizations + bug fixes!
Our first release including a local demo of Ethereum 2.0 so far, is live!
Come check out the following:
💎 Spin up a beacon chain node from a genesis config
💎 Connect a validator to the beacon node
💎 Validator gets shuffled into a shard and slot
0/ We are now hiring a remote, full-time, frontend and UX software engineer to work on the software behind the eth2 blockchain. Come join us
#Typescript
#UX
#Ethereum
- 0/ Prysmatic Labs is currently hiring for embedded security engineer and software development engineer in test (SDET) roles to work on our Ethereum proof of stake implementation, Prysm
New release v2.1.2 is here! 🎉
- Updated to Golang v1.18.1
- Updated to go-libp2p v0.18.0
- Important bug fixes
- Enable a lot of useful optimizations which has been in internal testing for months
See release notes:
Prysm patch release v1.0.4 🎉
This optional release includes features like runtime db backup, load graffitis from file, sync improvements and more…!
See release notes for full change log:
⚠️Users using mev-boost must to upgrade to 4.0.2 urgently to stop missing blocks!
If you are unable to upgrade at this time, you can disable mev boost but make sure to disable builder in your proposer-settings flags on the validator client.
We have released Prysm v4.0.2. It includes a critical fix when the validator interacts with mev-boost. It's mandatory to upgrade if you are running mev-boost. V4.0.2 also contains misc optimizations and fixes. See release notes for detail.
Prysm v1.2.2 release 🎉
This release includes several performance improvements that are important given the increasing state size. Updating to this release is highly recommended at your earliest convenience.
gm
@LidoFinance
, we are confirming our team is joining Lido as a Node Operator, "Prysmatic Labs", with address 0x3bF3A9260fE18A1239767aC6F0F0bc7c1E5d1cBC
📣Prysm pre-genesis minor patch release!
This minor patch release includes two bug fixes.
- Better lookback period for initial sync
- Handle missing block metadata better
Updating to this release is recommended prior to genesis. Full change log:
📢 New release alert!
v2.1.3-rc.0 is available. It's only intended for testnets with full support for the Ropsten beacon chain. See release notes for detail
Prysm v1.3.1 release 📣
This patch release contains an important fix for an issue in v1.3.0 where some validator databases could not be upgraded
Upgrading to this patch is only recommended for validator databases that managed many validating keys
Gm Sepolia testnet node operators! ☀️
Shapella hard fork is tomorrow! (2/28/2023, 4:04:48 AM UTC) 🍴
We have a new release that's ONLY for Sepolia testnet. Please do not use this release on Mainnet and other testnets. See release notes for more details.
Gm Goerli node operators! We got a new release! ☀️
Shanghai / Capella hard fork is coming soon! (March 14 10:25:36 pm) 🍴
We have a new release that's mandatory for Goerli testnet, and low priority for mainnet.
See release notes for more details.
New dev updates! lots on beacon chain and geth-sharding repo!
🔹Research notes leading up to the beacon chain
🔹Removing go-ethereum codebase & introducing bazel
🔹Integrating the beacon chain with the geth-sharding repo
🔹Libp2p work for ruby release
Time for a bi-weekly development update!
💎Sharding and Casper Being Merged Through a Full PoS, Random Beacon Chain
💎Simulator and Sync Services
💎Handling Collation Data Requests Between Nodes
💎Validator Registration Contract for Beacon Chain
Latest biweekly update!
💎Prylabs at Devcon, did you see us?
💎Attestation aggregation!
💎41 Merged PRs (not goofing off at devcon)
💎Faster epoch processing
💎SSZ is better than ever
💎Getting dirty with Phase 2
Prysm patch release v1.0.3!
This release includes a fix that prevented users from proposing when setting up their validator accounts through certain workflows like DAppNode
Updating to this release is required if your validator is missing block proposal
April Development Updates:
🔹New sharding phase 1.1 spec
🔹New proposals on sharded P2P network, collation body serialization and local state storage
🔹A special thanks to
@SpankChain
for the donations!
🚀Calling all Ethereum solo stakers!
🌐Participate in the
@ethStaker
survey and shape the future of solo staking. It takes less than 15 mins and fully anonymous.
🔗Survey link: ✅ Available in English, Mandarin, Spanish, & Italian. Whether you're on…
Prysm V2.0.0-rc.0 is out! 🎉
This is a REQUIRED update for all pyrmont nodes in ~3 days
This is NOT intended for current mainnet
See release note for more detail:
May Development Updates:
🔹Latest research on proof of custody and safety notary pool size
🔹Merged Code, pull requests, and issues
🔹First Bounty Closed with
@GetGitcoin
on a sharded blockchain explorer
🔹Accepted into the
@AragonProject
grant program
Hey everyone! The latest development update is out!
💎 Latest research on sharding + casper 2.1 and p2p msg serialization standard
💎 Merged code, pull requests and issues
💎 Upcoming work
Earlier this week, our Co-Founders
@preston_vanloon
and
@terencechain
sat down with the Bankless team to help unpack
#Ethereum
's non-finality event.
Check out the conversation below!👇
...So, did Ethereum break?
Co-Founders of
@prylabs
,
@preston_vanloon
, &
@terencechain
will unpack Ethereum's non-finality event
- DID ETHEREUM BREAK?☢️
- What happened? Big deal?
- What is ‘non-finality’?
- What risk do L2s have?
LIVE @ 12pm EST
Prysm v2.0.6 release is out!💎
V2.0.6 is a patch release with a few features enabled, improvements to memory usage, JSON API fixes, and many other great changes🔥
Happy staking! and happy birthday
@VitalikButerin
!🎂
Mainnet is stable and there is no action required or recommended at this time for Prysm operators. Stand by for a hotfix release in the coming hours.
Thanks for your support and understanding.
👋 Gm everyone! Prysm release v2.1.1 is out!
This is a *required* release for users on v2.1.0. The release includes three fixes for regressions found in v2.1.0.
Release notes: