# Geth 1.7 - Megara

DevFeed: [Geth 1.7 - Megara](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/geth-1-7-megara-16811.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/09/14/geth-1-7-megara>)

Author: Péter Szilágyi

Published: 2017-09-14T16:36:33Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [Metropolis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/metropolis.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>)

## AI overview

The Go Ethereum team announces Geth 1.7, a release series preparing for the Metropolis hard forks and implementing Byzantium EIPs. The release also reworks transaction, receipt, log, and indexing storage to improve storage use and event-filtering performance, while further peer-to-peer and caching changes are planned for later releases.

## Source excerpt

The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions for various parts of the project....