Community Update 105

General

• Release

  • Node version 0.9.18 is the current release - public beta - that includes per validator vaults to improve mergeability RNode-0.9.18 release plan

  • Testnet is running rnode version 0.9.18 This is the public beta release.

  • Getting ready to release 0.9.19 with the following improvements: resolve known block mergeability conflicts in PoS.rho, web api, bug fixes including fixes for 'insufficient phlo' crashing the node.  

• Sprint 44 in progress

  • Main focus is (a) further improvements to mergeability (b) feature cleanup, testing, hardening, security, bug fixing (c) Network safety and reliability (d) getting ready for exchanges and dApp developers

  • Mergeability

    • Merged - Refactor (modularize, decouple) PoS.rho proof of stake contract to minimize mergeability conflicts. There are three specific issues identified. The fixes are published in https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2837  .

    • Merged - TreeHashMap being used to improve performance in Registry.rho as well as in the above mergeability solution.  The PR is at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2840    

    • Improvements to Tuple space merging in Rspace RNode feature gaps.  - PR getting ready to be published - This was delayed more than expected, but perhaps not a strict mainnet requirement.

  • Slashed Funds to be deposited into coop wallet

    • This allows refunding of the funds if the slashing is due to a software error https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3993

  •  Hardening

    • Merged - PR to secure access to protocol-private PoS methods  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3888  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2781

    • 'insufficient phlo' bringing down the node - PR is getting ready . This was delayed more than expected.

    • Working on an error handling framework to correctly handle replay errors / mismatches. Likely to be released post-mainnet.

  • Casper and block storage

    • Merged - Persist Deploys in LMDB -  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2820 Will be released in 0.9.19

    • Merged - Limit maximum parent depth https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2816 . Will be released in 0.9.19

    • Working on - Modify deployStorage to use System Deploys such that slashing deploys can be stored https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3997

    • A bug in finalization is being worked on

  • dApp developer tools and documentation. 

    • Merged, Will be included in release 0.9. 19 - HTTP interface  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2811 

    • Merged, Will be included in release 0.9. 19  - Add support for ethereum personal signature format https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2789

    • Likely to be released post-mainnet: Exploratory Deployments feature is being worked on, to allow developers to run deployments and rollback. This is API3 described in Obtaining Data  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3979 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3981  and among other things, allows to check for balance without paying REV  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-4002

  • Performance improvements

    • Merged, Will be included in release 0.9. 19  - Remove adhoc parallelism bounds on Pars https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2814

  • Refactoring, Optimizations and bug fixes, hardening - ongoing 

    • Ready to be Merged - https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2845  Security fix for multisig wallet Bundle the multiSig vault listening channel so that it can't be intercepted

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

  • January 16 at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for more information.

Blockers to Mainnet

• TBD

Risks to code completion for Mercury

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop