Upgrading the Node

The chainspec.toml contains a section to indicate from which era the given casper-node version should start running.

[protocol]
# This protocol version becomes active at the start of this era.
activation_point = 100

At every block finalization, the casper-node looks for newly configured versions. When a new version is configured, the running node will look at future era_id in the chainspec.toml file. This will be the era before where the current casper-node will cleanly shut down.

The casper-node-launcher will detect a clean exit 0 condition and start the next version of the casper-node.