Community Update 36

Medha

• Node 6 Release branch cut and RNode v0.6.1 released.

• Bugs are the highest priority for resolution.

• Medha is focusing on Triage every Tuesday after node testing.  If you come across a bug and want to file it, please check that no one else has reported the issue: Dashboard

  • https://rchain.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10104

  • Please provide your RNode version number + Git Hash, server logs, local blockchain and as much detail about steps to reproduce!

  • Medha thanks you for taking this extra step!

• Sharding and Economics for Consensus are not ready, these will be part of Node 7.

  • The team will end up delivering features all the way up through November.

  • Medha is working on proposing release criteria, and will work with the development team & CoOp board to settle on these criteria.

• Great progress during node testing this week.  We had 32 peers connected, 60 attendees on the call.  

Rholang team:

• Registry is in implementation.  We will support UUID's and public keys only. 

• Plan on compressing block data before sending (helps with 4 MB protobuf limitation)

• Block approval protocol for genesis block is in review.  Tested the process yesterday.

• Integration of the block store is in review.  This is a large PR that depends on the Genesis block approval PR. 

• Unbonding contract in review.

• Error handling in Casper in review.

Storage/Node team:

• Addressing issues in RSpace relating to thread management and performance.

• Discovered the LMDB single writer limitation is in fact an issue we must address.  We are moving to a hybrid solution, where we use an InMemory Hot store and LMDB for checkpoint and history.

• Implemented updated frame size to support blocks of 100 MB by default.  The size is configurable via a command line flag on node startup.

• Performance harness improvements.  Medha to demo the Grafana dashboards today.

• We have a Grafana dashboard that can be used for testnet.  The configuration of Grafana accepts external IP addresses & displays metrics that are emitted from RNode.

• Building gRPC Client API for client data retrieval

• Improving memory monitoring metrics.

• Node team focused on bug fixes.

Roscala: 

• Team has tied off their work and joined the Rholang and Node teams.

Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 

• Updated with information for RNode v0.6.1 this week.

• RHOC/REV page updated on Tues., Aug. 21.

• RHOC holders should sign up to receive updates when https://developer.rchain.coop/token-swap updates. This is the official and only place announcements where information about REV issuance will be published. Sign up to receive an email when the page updates.

Validators

• Close to 30 community members will help launch test net at RCon3. They are working with the dev team and in Tues. community testing sessions to prepare.

• Interested in being a validator? Please register your interest at https://developer.rchain.coop. With this registration you will receive technical updates.

RCon3

• It's not too late to register! Registration as of today is 251. Don't miss out.

• If you can't be there, there will be a live-stream of tracks 1-5.

• RChain is happy to announce that the Adrian Belew Power Trio and EchoTest will perform a concert for attendees on Sept, 5, 2018 at 20:00.

• Details about the conference are at https://developer.rchain.coop/conference.