For the first time, ethrex is listed alongside every other execution client in an Ethereum Foundation upgrade announcement. ethrex v28.0.0 is ready for Glamsterdam on Sepolia, activating October 6. We've run every Glamsterdam devnet since devnet-0 and Platåberget since August to get here. Proud to be part of Ethereum's client diversity. If you haven't run ethrex yet, it is always a good time to start.

More about what ethrex v28.0.0 includes:

ethrex v28.0.0 schedules Glamsterdam on Sepolia. If you run a Sepolia node, this is the release you need to follow the fork. ⚠️ Sepolia activates Glamsterdam at timestamp 1791294816, which is 2026-10-06 13:53:36 UTC, epoch 353024. The fork time ships in the bundled network config, so there is no configuration change to make, only the upgrade. An earlier version will not follow Sepolia past that point. Mainnet and Hoodi have no Glamsterdam time scheduled yet and are not affected by this deadline. Snap sync also gains EIP-8189 snap/2, which replaces iterative trie-node fetching during state healing with block access list replay. A healing node asks peers for the access lists of the blocks it is missing and replays them instead of walking the trie node by node, and it can serve those lists back over snap/2 once it is synced. Version negotiation is per connection, so snap/1 peers are served exactly as before. It builds on block access lists, so it applies to networks where Glamsterdam is active. Also in v28.0.0: - Storage ranges keep downloading when the pending set is too large to heal, instead of stalling on it. - Engine API and RPC: engine_getBlobsV4 returns compact cell matrices, eth_estimateGas and eth_createAccessList accept a block hash, and callTracer reports correct log indices under onlyTopCall and in debug_traceCall. - Performance: less redundant work around the block pipeline on the Engine API path, no per-payload block copy, single-pass engine_newPayloadV5 deserialization, and JUMPDEST analysis over 64-byte blocks. - Fixes: the initcode admission cap is gated on the fork ordinal, imported execution witnesses carry the correct first block number, the fused JUMPDEST trace step is emitted when its own gas charge exhausts the frame, and the precompile cache is memory-bounded. - L2: gas estimation for commit transactions no longer fails on some nodes. If you run ethrex on Sepolia, upgrade before 6 October. Everyone else, upgrade at your convenience. No resync is needed.

ethrex v27.0.0 adds state and block overrides to the RPC simulation methods. It also ships the Ethereum Foundation's new bootnode fleet for mainnet, Sepolia, and Hoodi, and stops transaction-admission rules from rejecting simulated calls. The override sets are the headline. eth_call, eth_estimateGas, eth_createAccessList, and debug_traceCall now accept the State Override Set and Block Override Set that geth defines, on both L1 and L2: per-address balance, nonce, code, state, and stateDiff, plus movePrecompileToAddress. Tooling that assumes those parameters exist, from forge script to Tenderly-style and MEV simulators to wallet balance previews and Multicall3 aggregators, now works against an ethrex RPC. Also in v27.0.0: - Bootnodes: the Ethereum Foundation's Node Infrastructure team is replacing the fleet that ships as the EF entries, and the new records are here. Five nodes per network, each serving mainnet, Sepolia, and Hoodi, geographically distributed, multi-cloud, dual stack, and spread across several discovery implementations, so one implementation bug cannot take the whole set down. It is a replacement rather than an addition, and third-party bootnodes and DNS discovery roots are untouched. Nodes pick the records up on upgrade, with no configuration change. - Simulated calls are no longer refused by transaction-admission rules. A call object carries no signature, so EIP-3607's contract-sender rule has nothing to protect: a smart contract wallet previewing its own transaction now gets a result instead of an error saying the sender should not be a contract. Transaction admission and block execution are unchanged. - A method in a namespace that is not enabled now says so, instead of reporting itself as not implemented. --http.api defaults to eth,net,web3, so debug_* probes against a stock node were reading as missing functionality when the handler was simply never reached. - Stateless-validator guests are on ERE v0.17.0, with the ERE version pinned by tag across the guest manifests and the release workflow. If you run ethrex, upgrade. No resync is needed.

EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) is now a Hegotá headliner! We backed frames from the moment they were first proposed as one, and we've been building an implementation in ethrex ever since. That implementation now runs two public testnets: one dedicated to frame transactions, and one dedicated to privacy, which adds the companion EIPs also up for Hegotá: EIP-8250 (Keyed Nonces), EIP-8272 (Recent Roots), and EIP-7805 (FOCIL). The future of Ethereum is looking good, and you can already get a taste of it: faucet.privacy.ethrex.xyz faucet.frames.ethrex.xyz

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