Monero hard-fork v15 planned for early Spring 2022

The next Monero hard-fork (version 15)¹ for release v0.18.0² is planned for early Spring 2022³:

[..] the tentative plan would be an early Spring hard-fork, i.e. February or March of 2022.

It is worth noting that both Triptych and Seraphis are off the table for this network upgrade.

Primary features included

• Ring-size increase from 11 to 16 (#79⁴)
• View tags by @jberman (#8061⁵)
• Fee changes from @articmine (#7819⁶)
• Bulletproofs+ (#7170⁷)

Potential features

• Output binning changes by @jberman (#88⁸)
• Multisig refactor and vulnerability fix by @UkoeHB (#7877⁹)
• Daemon connection fixes (#7760¹⁰)

Before the HF happens, there are a number of items that have to be completed first (RELEASE_CHECKLIST¹¹): a security audit, code audit, Ledger/Trezor integration, send notifications to wallets, exchanges, mining pools and 3rd party payment processors and post release announcements.