🔥 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.