# Injective Canonical Chain Upgrade Instructions
Nov 8th, 2021
The following document describes the necessary steps involved that validators and full node operators must take in order to upgrade from the Injective Canary Chain to the Canonical Chain. The upgrade will take place via an on-chain software upgrade proposal passed by the Injective Chain governance. If passed, this proposal would commit the Injective Mainnet to halting the Canary Chain injectived application binary at approximately 14:00 UTC on Nov 8th and starting the application binary for the Injective Canonical Chain.
Injective Canary Chain to the Canonical Chain upgrade follows proposal #65 (opens new window)
Following a chain upgrade timeline, as a first step proccedd to Canonical chain release 10002-rc1 upgrade.
# The History of Canonical Chain Upgrades
# Version 10002-rc1
Nov 8th 2021 14:00 UTC
Block number: 4,352,000 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Injective Chain 10002-rc1 release (opens new window)
Following proposal #65 (opens new window)
# Version 10002-rc2
November 15th 2021
Block number: 4,594,100 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Injective Chain 10002-rc2 release (opens new window)
Following proposal #70 (opens new window)
# Version 10003-rc1
Thursday Dec 30th 2021
Block number: 6,159,200 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-10003-rc1-1640627705 (opens new window)
Following proposal #93 (opens new window)
# Version 10004-rc1
Tuesday Jan 25th 2022
Block number: 7067700 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-10004-rc1-v1.4.0-1642928125 (opens new window)
Following proposal #106 (opens new window)
# Version 10004-rc1-patch
Sunday Feb 20th 2022
Block number: 7941974 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-10004-rc1-v1.4.0-1645352045 (opens new window)
# Version 10005-rc1
Monday April 11th 2022
Block number: 9614200 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-v1.5.0-1649280277 (opens new window)
# Version 10006-rc1
Tuesday July 5th 2022
Block number: 12569420 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-v1.6.0-1656650662 (opens new window)
# Version 10007-rc1
Thursday September 1th 2022
Block number: 14731000 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-v1.7.0-1661881062 (opens new window)
# Version 10007-patch
Monday October 24th 2022
Block number: 17467700 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-v1.7.0-1661881062 (opens new window)
# Version 10008
Monday November 21th 2022
Block number: 19761600 (opens new window)
Released Artifacts: Mainnet-10008-1668679102 (opens new window)