SSV Node
SSV Labs · Go · GPL-3.0
Go implementation of the SSV network operator node (performs validator duties itself).
dvtEthereum MainnetHoodiHolesky
Releases
30 releases
SSV Nodev2.5.0
Why this rating
- high (sepolia): Sepolia | 🔥 Required
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🔥 Required
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 🔥 Highly recommended
- fork readiness: "v2.5.0 This release brings a bunch of performance optimizations, various improvements, and prepares SSV node software for the upcoming Glamsterdam (Gloas / ePBS) hard fork."
- performance wording: "v2.5.0 This release brings a bunch of performance optimizations, various improvements, and prepares SSV node software for the upcoming Glamsterdam (Gloas / ePBS) hard fork."
Oct 13, 2026
SSV Nodev2.5.0-unstable.2
Why this rating
- high (sepolia): Sepolia | 🔥 Required (before the Glamsterdam fork)
- low (hoodi): Hoodi | 🧪 Optional (testing)
- fork readiness: "> ⚠️ Sepolia: upgrade your Execution + Consensus clients to Glamsterdam-ready releases before you restart the SSV node on this version."
- performance wording: "Per-client failures, such as a beacon node refusing to attest while optimistically synced, log at DEBUG, and ERROR is reserved for a failed duty."
Sep 30, 2026
SSV Nodev2.4.3
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "This release improves duty scheduling reliability (proposer duty rework, late voluntary exit fix, multi-CL init resilience), strengthens consensus and message validation, adds det…"
Jun 1, 2026
SSV Nodev2.4.2
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Mar 8, 2026
SSV Nodev2.4.1
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Feb 16, 2026
SSV Nodev2.4.0
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Jan 29, 2026
SSV Nodev2.3.9
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Dec 9, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.8
Why this rating
- high (mainnet): Mainnet | 🟢 Required | 3.12.25
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🟢 Required | 28.10.25
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Nov 27, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.7
Why this rating
- high (mainnet): Mainnet | 🟢 Required | 3.12.25
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🟢 Required | 28.10.25
- high (mainnet): It activates Fusaka support on Ethereum mainnet – mainnet operators must upgrade before the Fusaka fork.
Nov 18, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.7-unstable.2
Why this rating
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🟢 Required | 28.10.25
- consensus-safety wording: "The core problem being addressed is that operators sometimes receive peer-to-peer messages before their duty runners are ready to process them, causing valid messages to be droppe…"
- performance wording: "- Fetches the list of scheduled duties from the beacon node, using an optimized beacon adapter that is only used for the exporters (safe switch since exporter does not execute any…"
Oct 27, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.7-unstable.1
Why this rating
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🟢 Required | 28.10.25
- high (sepolia): Sepolia | 🟢 Required | 14.10.25
Sep 30, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.6
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- hotfix wording: "v2.3.6 This release delivers a hotfix for a case where an Operator is started without any active Validators causing it to crash and hence also miss the validator activation event."
- performance wording: "> ⚠️ Always update testnet and check performance before updating mainnet nodes."
Sep 21, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.5
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "v2.3.5 This release delivers improvements to observability, performance, and validator duty handling, focusing mainly on bug fixes and optimizations, in particular for higher amou…"
Sep 14, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.4
Why this rating
- hotfix wording: "This is a hotfix version for this bug."
- low (mainnet): Mainnet | Optional
- low (hoodi): Hoodi | Optional
Aug 18, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.3
Why this rating
- high (mainnet): Mainnet | 🔴 Required (Default GasLimit Fork: Aug-09-2025 06:40:23 AM UTC)
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🔴 Required (Default GasLimit Fork: Jul-24-2025 09:30:00 AM UTC)
- performance wording: "This release upgrades the node to Go 1.24, ships official AMD64 + ARM64 Docker images, includes bugfixes and optimizations. introduces ssvsigner — a remote-signer component for se…"
Jul 15, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.2
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- consensus-safety wording: "In addition, this release fixes missed proposals with Prysm: the client occasionally sets the Eth-Consensus-Block-Value header incorrectly, which caused proposal misses even thoug…"
- performance wording: "- Correct total consensus time in logs - The total consensus time metric now measures the entire consensus pipeline, not just the signing step, giving operators reliable performan…"
Jun 11, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.1
Why this rating
- high (all networks): ⚠️ Teku Users: To make Doppelganger protection work with Teku, you must also run your beacon node with:
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- consensus-safety wording: "- Please ensure all nodes are updated ahead of the Electra fork to avoid missed duties or inconsistent behavior."
Apr 3, 2025
SSV Nodev2.3.0
Why this rating
- high (all networks): ⚠️ Teku Users: To make Doppelganger protection work with Teku, you must also run your beacon node with:
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Recommended
- medium (hoodi): Hoodi | 👍 Recommended
- consensus-safety wording: "- Please ensure all nodes are updated ahead of the Electra fork to avoid missed duties or inconsistent behavior."
Apr 2, 2025
SSV Nodev2.2.0-unstable.1
Why this rating
- high (hoodi): Hoodi | 🟢 Mandatory | Wed. March 26, 2025 07:37:12 UTC (epoch 2048)
- high (mainnet, hoodi): > [!WARNING] > Prior to upgrading SSV, the Ethereum clients and mev-boost must be upgraded to their respective Pectra on Hoodi releases.
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 🟢 Recommended | _Already forked_
- medium (sepolia): Sepolia | 🟢 Recommended | _Already forked_
Mar 20, 2025
SSV Nodev2.2.2-unstable.0
Why this rating
- high (holesky): Holesky | 🟢 Mandatory | Feb 24th 2025 21:55:12 UTC (epoch 115968)
- high (mainnet, holesky): > [!WARNING] > Prior to upgrading SSV, the Ethereum clients and mev-boost must be upgraded to their respective Pectra on Holesky releases.
Feb 20, 2025
SSV Nodev2.2.0
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Recommended
- deprecation wording: "- Removed deprecated CI files to streamline the CI/CD pipeline."
- performance wording: "v2.2.0 This release includes awaited features and bug fixes that should improve performance!"
Feb 4, 2025
SSV Nodev2.1.1
Why this rating
- low (mainnet): Mainnet | Optional
- low (holesky): Holesky | Optional
Jan 23, 2025
SSV Nodev2.1.0
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Recommended
- performance wording: "This release introduces bug fixes, performance improvements and a metrics redesign."
Jan 7, 2025
SSV Nodev2.0.2
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Strongly Recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Strongly Recommended
- performance wording: "- Optimized committee management by sharing CommitteeDutyGuard across committees."
Dec 15, 2024
SSV Nodev2.0.1
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Strongly recommended
- medium (holesky): Holesky | 👍 Strongly recommended
Dec 3, 2024
SSV Nodev1.3.11
Why this rating
- performance wording: "- optimization: (eventsyncer) don't remove QBFT instances to speed up sync #1824"
Oct 28, 2024
SSV Nodev2.0.0
Why this rating
- high (mainnet): > [!WARNING] > Mainnet operators MUST upgrade to v2.0.0 prior to the fork epoch!
- fork scheduled (mainnet): > [!WARNING] > Mainnet operators MUST upgrade to v2.0.0 prior to the fork epoch!
Oct 28, 2024
SSV Nodev1.3.10
Why this rating
- medium (mainnet): Mainnet | 👍 Strongly recommended
- performance wording: "After enough of the network upgrades to v1.3.10, SSV nodes should find peers significantly faster, which is crucial for the Alan fork to pass smoothly."
Oct 15, 2024
SSV Nodev2.0.0-unstable.0
Why this rating
- high (holesky): Holesky | Mandatory | Oct. 8th 12:00 UTC (Epoch 84,600)
- fork readiness: "This release introduces support for the Alan fork to the SSV Holesky testnet."
Sep 23, 2024
SSV Nodev1.3.8
Aug 7, 2024