Community Update 100
General
Release
Node version 0.9.17 is the current release that includes cost accounting RNode-0.9.17 release plan
Testnet is running rnode version 0.9.17
Rnode 0.9.17 includes Cost Accounting and enhancements to and simplification of RSpace codebase. It is the base release for Testnet 3 before we go into public beta
Sprint 42 in progress
Main focus is (a) mergeability (b) feature cleanup, testing, hardening, security, bug fixing of Testnet 3, Network safety and reliability (c) getting ready for exchanges and dApp developers
Mergeability
Per Validator Vault PR is In review, being tested. https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2808 Explanation of the problem is available at https://gist.github.com/tymm/c98acf4f91b1fca8cbd48c02c21e3472
Additional mergeability designs being considered, based on potential improvements to Tuple space merging in Rspace RNode feature gaps.
In Progress - PR to secure access to protocol-private PoS methods https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3888 https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2781
Hardening
One bug since Cost accounting release is being addressed. Some times, if there are problems with a particular contract (e.g. insufficient funds, the node is unable to move forward with other deploys). We're actively investigating the issue and enhancing exception handling to catch and isolate such situations to not impact node https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3923 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3912 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3937
Planning a combination of Scala property and law testing + generative tests + formal methods to get high coverage in a cost-effective manner.
Addressing critical issues with Mercury_Stability label.
Planning to improve upon and simplify tools and documentation for dApp developers.
Addressing dApp developer needs for HTTP interface https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2811
Identified a set of tools that exchanges are interested in such as block explorer. Will develop in coordination with the community.
Restarting Rcat (digital asset management) work to rebase on current code base. This should help dApp developers as well as help debug/harden the code base by exercising it.
Identified initial documentation needs for exchanges + developers, will be working on these.
Working on providing a two node network for dApp developers' exclusive use.
Performance improvements
Using flamegraphs to identify bottlnecks and adding improvements as possible. An example is improvement of ReplayRspace matching https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2812 Seems to have provided 14x improvement
Investigating the concurrency settings on the monix library and JVM to make sure they're set optimally
Starting to capture more performance data, working with community members.
Refactoring, Optimizations and bug fixes, hardening - ongoing
Happy Thanksgiving
My thanks to the development team for all their hardwork and getting us closer to Public beta and main net
Thanks to everyone in the community,especially those that are helping with tools and dApp development and providing feedback on what we need to improve for developers.
You would have noticed that we are integrating more of the community members into the development team, such that the team is now a Core + Tools team, rather than just a Core Dev team.
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
Developer website
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