ethrex
betaLambdaClass · Rust · Apache-2.0
Minimalist Rust execution client (L1 + L2).
executionEthereum MainnetHoodiSepolia
Required by network upgrades
| Upgrade | Network | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Glamsterdam | Sepolia | ≥ 29.0.1 |
Releases
37 releases
ethrexv30.0.1
Why this rating
- high (hoodi): v30.0.1 > [!IMPORTANT] > Hoodi operators running v30.0.0 must upgrade to this release before 2026-10-26 17:42:48 UTC. v30.0.0 schedules the Glamsterdam fork on Hoodi for that time, but the All Core D…
- fork scheduled (hoodi): > [!NOTE] > What's new > - Hoodi: Glamsterdam is no longer scheduled on Hoodi, matching the other clients.
- performance wording: "Blocks are now imported in order by one importer per node. > - Faster L2 catch-up: the sequencer sends a reconnecting peer only the blocks it is missing and up to 16 batches at a …"
Oct 23, 2026
ethrexv30.0.1-rc.3
Oct 23, 2026
ethrexv30.0.1-rc.2
Oct 22, 2026
ethrexv30.0.1-rc.1
Oct 20, 2026
ethrexv30.0.0
Why this rating
- high (hoodi): v30.0.0 > [!IMPORTANT] > Hoodi operators must run this release before Glamsterdam activates on Hoodi at 1793036568 (2026-10-26 17:42:48 UTC).
- fork scheduled (hoodi): It is the first ethrex release with the fork scheduled on Hoodi; earlier releases stop following Hoodi at the fork.
- fork scheduled (mainnet): Mainnet has no Glamsterdam time scheduled.
- performance wording: "> [!NOTE] > What's new > - Hardening: JSON-RPC parsing is bounded in memory and the Auth-RPC token is checked before the request body is read; eth_getLogs and log filter polls are…"
Oct 16, 2026
ethrexv30.0.0-rc.2
Oct 15, 2026
ethrexv30.0.0-rc.1
Oct 14, 2026
ethrexv29.0.1
Why this rating
- fork scheduled (mainnet, hoodi): Mainnet and Hoodi have no Glamsterdam time scheduled and are not affected by the deadline.
- performance wording: "> [!NOTE] > What's new > - Block access list hardening: serving block access lists to peers is now bounded in work and memory, and counts toward the per-peer rate limit; responses…"
Oct 5, 2026
ethrexv29.0.0
Why this rating
- fork scheduled (mainnet, hoodi): Mainnet and Hoodi have no Glamsterdam time scheduled and are not affected by the deadline.
- performance wording: "> [!NOTE] > What's new > - Block access list hardening: serving block access lists to peers is now bounded in work and memory, and counts toward the per-peer rate limit; responses…"
Oct 5, 2026
ethrexv29.0.0-rc.3
Oct 4, 2026
ethrexv29.0.0-rc.1
Oct 2, 2026
ethrexv28.0.0
Why this rating
- high (sepolia): v28.0.0 > [!IMPORTANT] > Sepolia operators must upgrade before Glamsterdam activates on Sepolia at 1791294816 (2026-10-06 13:53:36 UTC, epoch 353024).
- fork scheduled (sepolia): v28.0.0 > [!IMPORTANT] > Sepolia operators must upgrade before Glamsterdam activates on Sepolia at 1791294816 (2026-10-06 13:53:36 UTC, epoch 353024).
- fork scheduled (sepolia): This release schedules the fork and carries the consensus fixes a node needs to follow Sepolia past it; an earlier version will not follow the fork.
- fork scheduled (mainnet, hoodi): Mainnet and Hoodi have no Glamsterdam time scheduled yet and are not affected by this deadline.
- performance wording: "Together these align ethrex with the Glamsterdam specification on blocks it previously accepted. > - Snap sync: BAL-based state healing (EIP-8189, snap/2), and storage ranges keep…"
Sep 29, 2026
ethrexv28.0.0-rc.1
Sep 22, 2026
ethrexv27.0.0
Sep 11, 2026
ethrexv26.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "Syncing peers can now fetch their head from us by non-canonical hash, and are told the earliest block we can actually serve instead of block 0. > - Discovery: external IP learned …"
Sep 8, 2026
ethrexv26.0.0-rc.3
Sep 1, 2026
ethrexv26.0.0-rc.2
Aug 27, 2026
ethrexv25.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "Off by default, and it adds substantial disk usage. > - New tracing endpoints: debug_traceCall and debug_traceBlockByHash. > - Mempool controls: a minimum priority-fee floor, repl…"
Aug 21, 2026
ethrexv24.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "ethrex: v24.0.0 > [!NOTE] > What's new > - Groundwork for deep-reorg support: a state-history journal, an overlay read cascade, and a new --max-reorg-depth flag. > - Fixed eth_get…"
Aug 11, 2026
ethrexv24.0.0-rc.3
Aug 4, 2026
ethrexv24.0.0-rc.2
Aug 4, 2026
ethrexv24.0.0-rc.1
Aug 4, 2026
ethrexv23.0.0
Jul 27, 2026
ethrexv22.0.0
Jul 17, 2026
ethrexv21.0.0
Why this rating
- Breaking changes: - due to f307de5 - harden RPC startup (fail-fast bind, shared HTTP/WS port, honest logs) *(PR #6945 by @ilitteri)*: harden RPC startup (fail-fast bind, shared …
- performance wording: "> [!NOTE] > What's new > - Improved logs and disallowed binding --http.port and --ws.port to the same port where it would silently fail. > - Improved ethrex's graceful shutdown se…"
Jul 14, 2026
ethrexv20.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "ethrex: v20.0.0 > [!NOTE] > What's new > - Performance improvements, mainly through block data persistence deferral. > - Optimized Glamsterdam BALs handling performance and execut…"
Jul 3, 2026
ethrexv19.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "ethrex: v19.0.0 > [!NOTE] > What's new > - Fixes a memory leak some long-running nodes were experimenting > - Hardens the P2P stack > - zkEVM-related perf improvements > > No resy…"
Jun 30, 2026
ethrexv19.0.0-rc.1
Jun 26, 2026
ethrexv18.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "ethrex: v18.0.0 > [!NOTE] > What's new > - Sync robustness: fixes for full-sync wedges, snap-sync restart livelock, and FCU-on-unreachable-state idling > - Faster crypto and EVM: …"
Jun 19, 2026
ethrexv17.0.0
Jun 12, 2026
ethrexv16.0.0
Why this rating
- medium (all networks): Upgrading is strongly recommended for all operators.
- security wording: ">[!NOTE] > What's new > - An option to have more control over RAM usage, --rocksdb.block-cache-size > - Security critical fixes > - Minor bug fixes > This release changes the data…"
- hotfix wording: "ethrex: v16.0.0 > [!IMPORTANT] > This release contains critical bug fixes."
- fork readiness: "- c8c4d47 - l1: support Amsterdam block production in dev mode *(PR #6731 by @edg-l)*"
Jun 8, 2026
ethrexv16.0.0-rc.1
Why this rating
- fork readiness: "- c8c4d47 - l1: support Amsterdam block production in dev mode *(PR #6731 by @edg-l)*"
Jun 5, 2026
ethrexv15.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "- 69ebed6 - l1: add CLI toggles for BAL parallel exec, prefetch, and optimistic trie *(PR #6683 by @edg-l)*"
May 29, 2026
ethrexv14.0.0
Why this rating
- performance wording: "- b0fcc77 - l1: bal optimistic merkleization (or post-state root optimization) *(PR #6655 by @edg-l)*"
May 22, 2026
ethrexv13.0.0
Why this rating
- breaking wording: "ethrex: v13.0.0 > [!WARNING] > Breaking change in v13.0.0."
May 19, 2026
ethrexv13.0.0-rc.2
May 15, 2026
ethrexv12.0.0
Why this rating
- medium (all networks): Upgrading is strongly recommended for all operators.
- hotfix wording: "ethrex: v12.0.0 > [!IMPORTANT] > This release contains critical bug fixes."
- performance wording: "- 38938bb - l1: bound memory usage of healing *(PR #6545 by @iovoid)*"
May 8, 2026