According to Foresight News, Everstake has announced that EIP-7917 will be implemented in the Fusaka hard fork, alongside seven other Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). This update is set to debut in the fusaka-devnet-1 version, scheduled for release on June 9.
EIP-7917 aims to improve the Ethereum consensus mechanism by making the scheduling of block proposers fully deterministic. Currently, the schedule for proposers is somewhat unpredictable. With EIP-7917, Ethereum will generate a list called proposal_lookahead at the start of each block. This list will indicate which validators will propose the current and upcoming block headers. As new blocks begin, the list will be updated by removing old proposers and adding new ones.
The proposal_lookahead list is stored on-chain, allowing smart contracts to access information about the next proposer. This enhancement is expected to increase the speed and reliability of block confirmations.