Testnet refresh took place on Tuesday! We were able to perform a staggered update & preserve the blockchain state.
We deployed a patch to the testnet, 0.6.4 - which contained 3 bug fixes.
Medha is focusing on detailing out the rest of the releases, anticipate this will be done by the end of the week.
Working out the test plan and SLA for HackerOne.
Scope creep is paramount. The team is concerned about locking down what we will deliver for Mercury.
Rholang team:
Show-blocks issue - suspect that this may be related to context switching around threads. Workaround is to use show-block with the block's hash
Work continues on the name registry.
Focusing on stability in the Interpreter, specifically to work on stack management
Team met to discuss the Casper block store, goals being to improve the story for validator recovery and performance improvements.
Casper team is focused on fixing the InvalidBondsCache bug.
Uplifting the integration tests by moving these to PyTest & making the tests modular. Once complete, this work will be turned over to the SRE team.
Storage/Node team:
Investigating moving to finer grained locking in LMDB. Removing the lock & running the wide contract yielded encouraging results (8-10 K COMM events/s)
Node team is focusing on the threading model, Alexander is leading this effort.
We have an SRE team! We welcome Adam to the project.
SRE is working on a proposal to streamline and improve our devops pipeline.
Avoiding excessive rebuilds of the node from one set of tests to another
Including performance testing as part of the pipeline