Pectra testing call #4, 9 September 2024

Summary

Update by @parithosh (from Eth R&D Discord)

pectra-devnet-3:

Huge thanks to the testing team for providing reusable execution spec tests on devnets!

Status update posted on interop: ⁠interop-:night_with_stars:

Devnet launch slated for tomorrow morning, clients passing tests will be added at genesis (clients with non-consensus issues would be included)

Discussion about why local testing yielded passing tests but devnet revealed issues (Mainly due to the RPC/EngineAPI inclusion route used by devnets)

Nethermind spoke about the issues they faced with the latest tests

EOF:

3 clients are mostly ready for devnet-4, in a good place for a devnet in ~weeks timeline after devnet-3

Discussions have already been had about changes for devnet-5

peerdas-devnets:

Lighthouse-prysm seem to be stable on a local devnet Issues with teku were discussed, some issues only show up after many epochs and debugging is still going on

fuzzing:

no update given this week

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