Meeting summary for All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) (05/01/2025) Quick recap
The meeting covered discussions on the main Shadow Fork, including deposit problems and client issues, as well as updates on the upcoming Pectra Mainnet Fork and client releases. Plans for Devnet 7 were addressed, with suggestions to delay its launch until after Spectra updates and considerations for including validator custody. The team also discussed various technical aspects, including syncing issues, PRs related to minimal spec execution payload, and the need for more review on consensus specs blob schedule PR. Next steps
• Tim to update the blog post with either “version X or later” language or strike the old release and add the new one for Lighthouse and Prism clients.
• Saulius to provide contact information for Grandine client team for the instant response plan.
• Terence to release Prism 6.0.1 with bug fixes.
• Client teams to continue working on fixing syncing issues for Devnet 7.
• Barnabas and team to consider launching Devnet 7 to help with debugging, particularly for Lighthouse.
• Client teams to review the consensus specs Blob Schedule PR shared by Justin.
• All teams to focus on final preparations for the Petra mainnet upgrade.
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**Summary**
**Shadow Fork and Pectra Mainnet Updates**
In the meeting, Stokes led the discussion about the main Shadow Fork, which went mostly fine with some deposit problems on some clients. Barnabas explained that the issues were due to the Shadow Fork config and could not happen on Mainnet. Notices Forked Petra, and everything went well. There was a discussion about the instant response plan and the need for updates on the main Shadow Fork. Sean announced the release of Lighthouse 7.0.1, which helps with state cache misses. Terrence mentioned that Prysm is making a release today, which is recommended on top of 6.0.0. There was also a discussion about the upcoming Pectra Mainnet Fork, with updates on the blog post and the need for clients to be ready. The conversation ended with a discussion about the readiness of relays and builders for the upcoming fork.
**Devnet 7 Launch and Syncing Issues**
In the meeting, Barnabas suggested delaying the launch of Devnet 7 until after the Spectra updates, allowing more people to focus on it. He also mentioned that the syncing issues were being worked on by multiple client teams. Sean from Lighthouse team expressed the need for Devnet 7 to work through debugging. Terrence raised a question about the Devnet 7 spec, to which Barnabas responded that they were considering including validator custody in it. Justin Traglia discussed a PR related to the minimal spec execution payload, and Barnabas mentioned a need for more eyes on the consensus specs blob schedule PR. The team agreed to provisionally plan for Devnet 7 with Beta 5 and the data column by root requests change. The conversation ended with no further topics to discuss.
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