🔥 EthPillar v5.2.4 — GitcoinGrants#24 is live - Release Notes

🛡️ Action Items

• 📣 Hoodi Testnet ready: Update your client software (including mevboost alpha release) by the 28th. Watch party here: https://www.youtube.com/live/cJLobeQqO9E
• ▶️ Two days left to support EthPillar via Gitcoin Grants 24! https://giveth.io/project/ethpillar-streamlining-ethereum-staking-for-everyone
• 📣 Fusaka: Mainnet releases: 3 Nov 2025, (tentative) Mainnet date: 3 Dec 2025

Summary

v5.2.4 is a small polish and quality-of-life release: TUI/UX refinements, fixed eth-valctl repo url, and improvements to the mev-boost updater flow to allow updating to alpha releases (i.e. for Fusaka hoodi testnet)

Highlights

• TUI polish:
  • Plugin menu icons and labels updated (Aztec icon changed, Plugins/Toolbox label tweaks).
  • Installed versions dialog now shows EthPillar version.
  • Menu label changes: "Tools" → "Toolbox", consistent capitalization and wording improvements.
• MOTD updated (date, donor shoutout, Gitcoin Grants messaging).
• eth-validator-cli plugin now references the newer eth-valctl repo URLs.
• Documentation links updated to point to docs.coincashew.com.
• mev-boost updater (update_mevboost.sh) rewritten for robustness:
  • Added interactive selection for custom tags.
  • More resilient download/extract/move logic, better error messaging and quoting.
  • Better detection of installed version and improved whiptail prompts.
• Minor fault-tolerance fixes and general UX improvements.

Upgrade and operational recommendations

• Aztec Node Operators: Optional.
• ETHSTAKERS:
  • Optional for MAINNET.
  • Required for HOODI testnet upgrade: allows updating mevboost to alpha versions.

Links

• Compare: v5.2.3...v5.2.4
• Release page: https://github.com/coincashew/EthPillar/releases/tag/v5.2.4

Changelog (high-level)

• Docs link corrections
• TUI/menu icon & label polish
• MOTD update
• eth-valctl reference changes
• Robust mev-boost updater improvements
• Minor UX & fault-tolerance tweaks

🚀 Next Steps

Try EthPillar on the Hoodi or Ephemery testnets risk-free and share your feedback. 💙

💪 Update instructions: https://docs.coincashew.com/ethpillar/faq#installation--setup

⬇️ Run your own Sepolia, Ephemery, Hoodi or mainnet node
http://docs.coincashew.com/ethpillar

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