Intersect has announced plans for a less disruptive hard fork on the Cardano network. Core developer teams are working hard to cut two releases of Cardano Node. These are Cardano Node 10.6.2 and Node 10.7.0. Intersect on X shared a detailed article about future Cardano upgrades designed to occur more frequently.
In the X post, Intersect outlined new details on the small intra-era upgrade. With the hard fork, it means that transaction shapes will not change, minimizing ecosystem upgrade effort. Its focus will be to deliver performance boosts for Plutus, new cryptographic capabilities via builtins, and cleaner ledger rules, without breaking existing contracts. For now, the team is in the first stages of the upgrade process, with a focus on socialization and planning.
Meanwhile, the IOE teams are investing effort and resources into cutting two releases of the Cardano Node. The first one will be Pre-Release Cardano Node 10.6.2 with a target release within one week. This pre-release node contains hard fork functionality, and its target is to get the hard fork features into the community’s hands as soon as possible. This is aimed towards getting the ball rolling and engaging stakeholders before a Hard Fork candidate node is prepared.
Ultimately, it spotlighted Cardano Node 10.7.0, which has its target release within three weeks. This is the mainnet hard-fork-ready candidate release. It will be used to fork features like Preview, PreProd, and then Mainnet. Formal benchmarking and performance tests were run on this node.
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