Ethereum’s Glamsterdam test gets last-minute fix before major capacity jump
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Key takeaways
- Ethereum developers released a software update to fix a validator setting before the Sepolia test.
- The Glamsterdam test will raise the Sepolia test network gas limit from 60 million to 200 million.
- Prysm released version 7.2.1 with the new 200 million setting built in.
Ethereum developers issue a last-minute fix
Ethereum developers pushed out a last-minute software update ahead of Tuesday's Glamsterdam test on Sepolia, fixing a setting that could otherwise have left some validators producing much smaller blocks than intended.
Glamsterdam is Ethereum's next major upgrade, and it activates first on Sepolia, a test network where developers rehearse changes using tokens with no real value. One part of Tuesday's test raises Sepolia's gas limit from about 60 million to 200 million.
Understanding the network gas limit increase
Gas is the unit Ethereum uses to measure how much computing work fits into a block. A higher limit gives the network room to process more transactions and more complex activity at once, though it also asks more of the computers that run Ethereum.
Prysm, software used by Ethereum validators, released version 7.2.1 late Monday with the 200 million setting built in. Its previous release was finished before that setting was added to Sepolia's configuration, so validators running it would have stayed at 60 million unless operators changed the number by hand.
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