Community Update 93
General
Release
Node version 0.9.15 is the current release RNode-0.9.15 release plan
Testnet is currenty running rnode version 0.9.15
The 0.9.15 includes the new type safe API (instead of Either), some fixes for Long Proposal Times Issue, Offchain-data API (events API) improvements and other incremental progress in features discussed below.
Sprint 39 in progress
Main focus on (a) Cost accounting (b) Long proposal times - Fairness Constraint and other imrpovements (c) RSpace improvements in off-chain data API (d) multisig features (e) ongoing work in Casper tests independent of network layer (f) Ongoing work in Planning and implementation for Network safety, reliability and hardening
Cost accounting
Scope of work documented at https://gist.github.com/ArturGajowy/73e481767548b084a8e5d7c19bb1f70c
Some refactorings needed for Cost Accounting are completed
Implementation in progress for these preliminary tasks needed for implementing the main portions of cost accounting:
Generalize NormalizerEnv
Validate user deploy cost in replay
Bulletproof unforgeable-name namespace uniqueness by prohibiting terms wider than Short.MAX_VALUE splits/terms
Remove DeployData.payment log
Signed[A: Serialize] with a signing smart-constructor
In Review - Casper refactorings needed for Cost Accounting mainly to improve type inference - https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2761
Other tasks from the above link being ticketed and assigned - These tickets are more detail level arrived at based on analysis of prior tickets in cost accounting
Reduce long proposal times:
Initial implementation of a (simple round robin) fairness constraint as an additional mechanism to address long proposal times. Will observe impact and possibly design additional variations later. A generic solution is available.
Exploring additional improvements to existing synchrony constraints.
Investigating improvements to other bottlenecks e.g. in slow finalization https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3872 , ignore invalid blocks in toposort https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2757 etc.
We continue to explore various test parameters and more complex contracts, to both test the stability of this issue and make it manifest sooner if it exists.
Rspace
In Progress - In RSpace, an API is implemented for DAG discovery and block discovery, to enable an alternative to ListenForData@Name (Off-chain observability of deploy results). Relevant tickets are https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3760 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3661 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3762 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3812
Investigating failing integration tests in off-chain-data https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2476
Lot of knowledge transfer sessions and hand-offs to new developers in RSpace. Potential Future improvements identified RNode feature gaps
A simplistic Block Explorer is implemented https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2725 Documentation on how to use it at Data reporting
In Review - Implementation of mult-sig vault features is ongoing as detailed in https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3392 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3196 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3223 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3773. Next step is to write tests for this.
Refactoring, Optimizations and bug fixes - ongoing
Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
Details on the acceptance criteria: Mercury acceptance criteria
Please see the documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md.
Testnet status
Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
Community testing
Sept 19 at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for more information.
Blockers to testnet-3
TBD
Risks to code completion for Mercury
Evaluating backlog vs current velocity
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