#Ethereum Development Meeting Discusses Pectra Devnet 5 Release#

The All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call discussed the launch of Pectra Devnet 5 and the outstanding Pectra spec updates. Pectra Devnet 5 is now live and under testing. The call also discussed Pectra spec updates, including EIP 7623, EIP 7840, EIP 7691, EIP 2537, and EIP 7702. Of these, EIP 7623 has been merged on GitHub and incorporated into Pectra Devnet 5 testing, while the other EIPs are still under progress. The meeting also discussed next steps for testing the increased gas limit on the Holesky testnet, RPC standardization efforts, and minimum node hardware and bandwidth requirements specifications. Additionally, EF developer operations engineer Parithosh Jayanthi reported observing gas fee estimation issues on Devnet and will be collecting logs related to the issue to share on the Ethereum Research and Development Discord channel. The Pectra system contract audit has been completed with no major issues. The meeting recommended setting the Holesky default gas limit to 36m. The Pectra testnet upgrade is expected to launch on the mainnet in early to mid-March.