On May 17th, Flow Blockchain announced the upcoming release of the Crescendo network upgrade, which includes a major upgrade to the Flow language Cadence. To help all developers and teams in the ecosystem prepare for smart contract development, Flow developer Deniz Mert Edincik has released the cadenceUpgrader tool. This tool automates most of the updates required for contracts, and is fast, free, and requires no installation.

Deniz Mert Edincik stated that he developed this tool to help the community smoothly transition to Cadence 1.0, and has received attention and support from other developers.