According to Foresight News, Ethereum's "EVM Object Format (EOF)" improvement proposal has been included in the Pectra hard fork, which is expected to be executed later this year or early next year.
The EOF proposal is a series of smaller changes aimed at making major changes to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the core programming environment for Ethereum. EOF will make smart contracts more developer-friendly, especially for those who build decentralized applications using the Solidity or Vyper programming languages.
Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, said that EOF will be the first major change related to the EVM in many years, laying the foundation for future upgrades of the EVM and demonstrating the intention to continue improving the EVM.