Community Update 106

• Release

  • Node version 0.9.19 is the current release - public beta 2 - that resolves all known mergeability issues and has improved web APIs RNode-0.9.19 release plan

  • Testnet is running rnode version 0.9.19 This is the public beta 2 release.

  • Getting ready to release 0.9.20 with the final bug fixes including fixes for 'insufficient phlo' crashing the node.  

• Sprint 45 in progress
  
  

  • Main focus is making the mainnet release

  • Mergeability

    • Released - 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  .

    • Released - 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    

    • All known Mergeability issues are resolved. 

  • Slashed Funds to be deposited into coop wallet

    • PR is published and currently in review - https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2851 - This allows refunding of the funds if the slashing is due to a software error https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3993

  •  Hardening

    • Released- 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 https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2853 is ready, being reviewed. Likely to be included in Release 0.9.20

    • It was determined that https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3937 even though reported as resulting from 'insufficient phlo' is actually caused by any error. We know how to replicate the problem and are investigating a suitable fix. There is a work around - it gets fixed if the node is restarted. 

  • Casper and block storage

    • Released- Persist Deploys in LMDB -  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2820 

    • Released- Limit maximum parent depth https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2816 . 

    • 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. Determining further to see if this is actually a bug or just that finalization sometimes take place after much larger number of blocks.

  • dApp developer tools and documentation. 

    • Released, HTTP interface  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2811 

    • Released,  Add support for ethereum personal signature format https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2789

    • Likely to be released post-mainnet: Currently in as a Draft PR - being reviewed and improved - 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

    • Released, Remove adhoc parallelism bounds on Pars https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2814

    • Released, Rewrite ReplayRspacematching  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2812

  • Refactoring, Optimizations and bug fixes, hardening - ongoing 

    • Released- 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

    • Released- fix RChain-3775 https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2817

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.

• TBD

• https://developer.rchain.coop