Update: We’ve released it Version 1.3.5 Includes networking hotfixes for Farmhouse 1.3.4.
The development of Ethereum began in December 2013 when two developers and a college dropout researcher decided to put their heads together and develop this amazing technology. we will do later joined By many like-minded people. Our first proof of concept (PoC) took place on February 1, 2014. When we launched the crowdsale on July 23rd, we reached PoC 5 with a nearly complete protocol and achieved compatibility across multiple clients. The team was excited when we won our first million, second, third, and so on. It’s so crazy! It was one thing to believe that we could deliver on the Ethereum platform, but it was incredibly encouraging to see other people believe in it and want to participate.
Somewhat later, in October 2014, Gav and I were sitting on a train heading to Zurich Airport. At that time we thought the Ethereum conference would be really awesome and decided to hold it in November of that year. It was a bit of a busy time for those who organized it (thanks Aeron, Christian & Jason!), but we were determined to hold our first internal developer conference and we were able to pull it off. Developmentcon0.
When January 2015 came, we all knew that this would be the year to release the Ethereum beta version. The PoC series concluded with the PoC 9 hackathon on March 5 and the successful launch of Frontier on July 30, 2015. Miners around the world have booted up their mining rigs, users have spun up their nodes, and the network has gone live. It worked. There are no hiccups, no issues, and from a developer’s perspective, the release couldn’t have gone more smoothly. Over the next month, our team and community showed their potential and true brilliance in handling network issues and solving two consensus bugs together.
We felt it was very important to clearly communicate to our users how we think about network security. Today, we’re very proud to announce that as we move into a new phase, Homestead, we’re finally ready to remove the scraped word “Safe” from our website. Homestead blocks include: 1.150.000 For the main network, the Homestead transition takes place around noon on Pi Day, and the Homestead block for the Morden network is: 494.000.
What is Homestead?
Homestead is the second major version release of the Ethereum platform. It includes several protocol changes and networking changes that provide the ability to perform additional network upgrades.
- EIP-2 Major Farm Hardfork Changes
- EIP-7 Hardfork EVM update: DELEGATECALL
- EIP-8 Compatibility with versions later than devp2p
client release
that much go The Ethereum (geth) versions for Homestead are: Release 1.3.4 Release 1.3.5 Includes protocol and network changes mentioned above. Following the launch of Homestead, the Go team will also be launching soon. 1.4 releaseis our major feature release and involves months of work. The reason for keeping Homestead and feature releases separate is to keep Homestead release changes to a minimum, making debugging easier when needed.
that much C++ Homestead’s version of Ethereum(eth) is: Version 1.2.0. In addition to protocol and network changes, we try to be as compatible with geth as possible. You can use Mist and “geth attachment” with an eth node already running in the background. Next week we will tie key management into geth. EVM’s new DELEGATECALL function can be used for library calls in Solidity (not yet released). For more information, see: release notes.
what future plans
Over the coming weeks, the team will come together to pave the way for future developments on both the Ethereum protocol and the roadmap for its clients and sub-protocols such as Swarm and Whisper. I will provide more details in another blog post once I have a clearer picture of the work ahead.
To learn more about Ethereum, Homestead, and how to operate one of the Ethereum clients, farm documents Let’s move the project forward and prepare for the next phase of Ethereum together.
