The team behind Ethereum has announced plans to release an updated version of the network in late September. Known as Metropolis, a new hard fork is set to bring a number of changes, including higher security and anonymity of the system.
This will be the second official update of the network, following the original Frontier version and the first hard fork, Homestead.
The upgrade has been anticipated since February when the developers first unveiled plans to release Metropolis in the Ethereum road map for 2017. Initially planned in August, the launch date was postponed because of the continued development and comes at the end of the developer’s projected time-frame for execution.
https://www.coinspeaker.com/2017/08/26/ethereum-plans-metropolis-release-september/