2021 Q4 Release plan

Release Overview

Simple Overview

Release 1.5.0 marks the fifth Mainnet major version upgrade of the Casper protocol. The team has identified several areas of opportunity where the protocol will benefit from performance and sustainability fixes.

This release will focus on Performance & Sustainability.

The goal is to patch Mainnet with the fourth round of sustainability features:

• Fast Sync
• NFT support

Detailed Overview

Node

• Fast Sync

Execution Engine

• Fast Sync
• Account Unification (Design)
• Tech Debt work

Protocol

• Optimize Consensus memory usage
• Finality signatures improvements

SRE

• Permissioned network performance measurement
• Archival strategy

Ecosystem