Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade lists a few additions and removals.
The next major upgrade for Ethereum post Merge, the Shanghai Upgrade, is slated to include some new changes to Ethereum. Since it is slated to be held in the first half of 2023, developers have been directed to focus and prioritize enabling users who have staked their Ether for years to withdraw them methodically.
Many such proposals for improvement are expected to be included in the upgrade, including reducing the gas fees. Along with the upgrade, EIP-4884 was also important, but according to recent reports, core developers are focused on the upgrade for now in case EIP-4884 is delayed.
Time Beiko, a core developer, mentioned the upgrade in a long Twitter thread. He wrote, ‘At this point, the two main things agreed on were (1) seeing Shanghai happen quickly, ideally around March and (2) following this with a fork centered around EIP-4844. The big question to answer was where everything else on the Considered for Inclusion list should land.’
Along with the upgrade, other EIPs, such as EIP-3855: PUSH0 instruction, EIP-3651: Warm Coinbase, EIP-3860: Limit and meter initcode and EIP-4895: Beacon chain push withdrawals as operations, were expected to release.