# Homestead Release

DevFeed: [Homestead Release](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/homestead-release-16750.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/29/homestead-release>)

Author: Jeffrey Wilcke

Published: 2016-02-29T16:24:08Z

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>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>)

Tags: [announce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announce.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [protocol-announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol-announcements.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Ethereum announces the Homestead release, its second major version, with protocol and networking changes. The article states that the Homestead transition will occur at specified blocks on the main and Morden networks and mentions a networking hotfix in version 1.3.5.

## Source excerpt

Update: We've released version 1.3.5 including networking hotfix for homestead 1.3.4. Development of Ethereum started in December 2013 when two developers and a college dropout researcher decided to put their heads together and develop this amazing piece of technology. We were later