If things go according to plan, Ethereum developers agree to set a Goerli fork date to activate Dencun in January 2024.
The All Core Developer Executive Meeting (ACDE), a bi-weekly meeting of developers to coordinate changes to the Ethereum blockchain execution layer, ended on Thursday with an update on the activation date for the dencun upgrade.
The developers agreed that if all goes well, they will set a Goerli fork date to activate Dencun on the testnet in January 2024.
Goerli is Ethereum's first multiclient testnet that went live in two phases ahead of Merge last year. Over the next few months, Goerli will stop receiving support from the Ethereum client and the Ethereum Testing Team, making Dencun the final upgrade to be implemented on the network.
Tim Beiko, head of protocol support at Ethereum, suggested that developers coordinate a hard fork as soon as they return from vacation, assuming no major bugs are found on the client on DevNet 12.
The team seems to be generally ready to fork the testnet!We plan to do a large Goerli shadow fork in the next few weeks, and assuming that doesn't find any issues, then the fork Goerli itself will provide the most testing value," he noted.
Beiko also created a Meta EIP document before Dencun that lists all Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) included in the upgrade.
The last item on the agenda is planning the Prague Electra network upgrade, where some of the updates will require changes to the execution and client layers, so the Prague and Electra upgrades will need to be coordinated at the same time.
The developers have already started to suggest an upgrade, which they hope will be included in the ethmagicians' post.