tl;dr
Altair is coming fast. Upgrade your nodes! now!
🚨Upgrade to Altair before October 27th🚨
As mentioned in Previous Last Post, Altair is scheduled to launch at epoch 74240, October 27, 2021, 10:56:23 AM (UTC). reference Altair Mainnet Announcement Learn more about who does it, how, and why.
Suffice it to say here that the upgrade will be completed in about a week. So the time it takes to upgrade a node is now. Running a validator on the beacon chain ~ have to If you do not upgrade before the Altair upgrade period, you will incur a downtime penalty.
memo: Four of the five mainnet clients (Nimbus, Teku, Lighthouse, and Prysm) have released minor versions since the original Altair announcement (updated list here). These new releases include a mix of security patches and optimizations. highly We recommend that you run the latest client release even if you have already upgraded for Altair.
Upgrade now! 🚀