According to Foresight News, Christine Kim, vice president of research at Galaxy, summarized the contents of the 190th Ethereum core developer executive call. Developers shared their latest progress in implementing various code changes, including Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) 7251 and 7702, as well as Ethereum Virtual Object Format (EOF) and PeerDAS. Parithosh Jayanthi, EF developer operations engineer, highlighted the new GitHub page "eth-clients" for Ethereum mainnet and testnet configurations.

Developers are aiming to launch the next dedicated testnet for the Pectra upgrade next week. Major specification changes between the previous testnet, Devnet 0, and the upcoming testnet include the addition of the EL-triggered validator merge feature and the replacement of EIP 3074 with EIP 7702.