Update: we released Version 1.3.5 Including Hotfix networking for Homestead 1.3.4.
Ethereum’s development began in December 2013 when two developers and a university dropout researcher decided to come together and develop this incredible technology. We were later seal by many people sharing the same ideas. Our first proof of concept (POC) occurred on February 1, 2014. When we started our crowdsal on July 23, we were up to POC 5 with a protocol that was almost finished and had obtained compatibility between several customers. The team was excited when we obtained our first million and our second and our third and so on. It was crazy! To believe that we could deliver the Ethereum platform was one thing, but to see others believe and want to participate is incredibly inspiring.
A little later in October 2014, Gav and I were sitting on the train for Zurich airport when we thought that an Ethereum conference would be absolutely brilliant and settled in November the same year. It was a bit eventful for those who organized it (thank you Aeron, Christian and Jason!), But we managed to achieve it because we were determined to organize our first conference of internal developers, Devcon0.
When January 2015 arrived, we all knew that it would be the year when we had to launch our beta version of Ethereum. Our POC series was closed with the Hackathon POC 9 on March 5 and July 30, 2015, we successfully launched Frontier. Minors around the world have started their mining platforms, users have pulled their nodes and the network has come to life. It worked; No hiccups, no problems and from the point of view of a developer, the version could not have been more fluid. During the following months, our team and our community demonstrated its potential and its real impression in the treatment of problems on the network and by solving two consensus bugs together.
We estimated that it was extremely important to clearly communicate to our users what we thought about network security. Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that we are finally ready to delete the “safe” striped word from our website by going to a new phase: Homestead. The closed property block will be 1,150,000 For the main network, which means that the transition of family ownership will be roughly around noon on the IP day and that the property block for the Morden network will be 494,000.
What is Homestead?
Homestead is the second major version of the version of the Ethereum platform, which includes several protocol changes and a network change that gives us the opportunity to carry out additional network upgrades:
- EIP-2 Main main Hardfork changes
- EIP-7 Hardfork EVM update: Delegatecall
- EIP-8 compatibility of DEVP2P
Sorts of customers
THE Go The version of Ethereum (Geth) for Homestead will be version 1.3.4 version 1.3.5 And includes the changes mentioned above in the protocol and the network. After the publication of Homestead, the Go team will also soon go with the 1.4 Liberationwhich is our large version of features and includes months of work. The reason to keep Homestead and our separate functionality version is to maintain the release of family ownership to an absolute minimum, which facilitates debugging if necessary.
THE C ++ The version of Ethereum (ETH) for Homestead will be Version 1.2.0. In addition to the protocol and network changes, it also tries to be as compatible with Geth as possible. You can already use Mist and “Geth Attach” with an ETH node operating in the background. In the coming weeks, we will align key management with Geth. The new EVM Delegatecall functionality will be used in Solide for library calls (this is not yet published). For more details, please consult the Liberation notes.
What is the next step
Over the next two weeks, the teams will meet to open the road for future development on the Ethereum protocol as well as a roadmap for customers and sub-protocols such as Swarm and Whisper. Once we have a clear image of the work to come, we will provide details in another blog article.
For more information on Ethereum, Homestead and how to use one of the Ethereum customers, please go to the Family ownership documentation Project and let us Together Prepare the next phase of Ethereum.
