This topic is to discuss the History Expiry Meta EIP
Update from geth. The latest release includes the ability to a) offline-prune an existing datadir up to the merge block via prune-history command, b) snap sync without fetching the premerge block bodies and receipts. In both cases you will need to pass the --history.chain postmege flag to indicate a pruned history.
These are not advertised lest users get the idea to try it on mainnet before Pectra which we’d like to avoid. We have partial integration of era files with more coming in this direction.