Community Update 70

General

• Sprint and Release
  • This week's priorities: Last merges for updated RSpace and start testing, memory leak investigation in RNode, slashing implementation, merging updated proof-of-stake contract, and preparations for dev retreat next week.
  • Release - Work toward RNode v0.9.4. RNode-0.9.4 release plan.
• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
  
  • Please see the documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md. 
• Testnet status
  • Testnet-1 is live. Our intention is to keep this functioning so the community can deploy rholang to this public testnet. Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
• Community testing
  
  • Thursdays at 14:00 UTC. 

Consensus

• Work in progress to deliver slashing functionality. 

  Key	Summary	T	Status
  RCHAIN-2381	Slash Bond for invalid block		Done
  RCHAIN-2234	Slashing and ejection conditions and outcomes		To Do

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• Support for debugging in RSong. Issue resolved. New bugs filed to investigate why overflows errors were not reported and why deploys were not blocked when the deploy contained incorrect values. 

  Key	Summary	T	Status
  RCHAIN-3330	phlo overflow errors/exceptions are not handled correctly		Done
  RCHAIN-3329	phlo overflows creates inconsistent behavior in deploy contracts		Done
  RCHAIN-3312	RSONG race condition in RSong integration test		Done

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• Work continues to investigate blocker of running a genesis ceremony that includes RHOC balances in the genesis block to support the issuance of REV.  RCHAIN-3250 - Validators not receiving approved block after successful approval of genesis block Done

Cost accounting

• Completing work to update the proof-of-stake contract to use the RevVault.  RCHAIN-3136 - Update MakePoS contract to use RevVault instead of BasicWallet Done
• Reviewing work required to bridge cost accounting and the wallet especially estimation of time required as some of this work blocks the launch of testnet-2.  RCHAIN-3135 - Bridge cost accounting and the wallet In Progress

RNode

• Work in review to optimize node peering.  RCHAIN-3305 - Change Kademlia lookup algorithm to shuffle peers Done
• Work started on   RCHAIN-3328 - SslSessionClientInterceptor: Don't block InternalServerError messages Done

RSpace

• Taking next steps to support running new RSpace RNode and test in our development testnet.
• Investigation of bloat in the tuplespace related to Rholang. We had preliminary discussions about this this week and plan to discuss more during next week's dev retreat.  RCHAIN-3334 - Analyze issues in RSpace data layer Done

SRE 

• Investigation in progress related to memory issues observed in nodes in CI and testnet. RCHAIN-3335 - Investigate memory leak observed in RNode Done
• Testnet support: Maintaining the network while managing memory issues. 
• CI Upgrading Drone
• Whiteblock: Good progress this week in the effort to deploy an automated test in the Whiteblock infrastructure. https://github.com/rchain/whiteblock/

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop