Community Update 106

General

• 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  RCHAIN-3993 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  •  Hardening
    • Released- PR to secure access to protocol-private PoS methods   RCHAIN-3888 - Getting issue details... STATUS   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  RCHAIN-3937 - Getting issue details... STATUS  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  RCHAIN-3997 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • 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   RCHAIN-3979 - Getting issue details... STATUS   RCHAIN-3981 - Getting issue details... STATUS   and among other things, allows to check for balance without paying REV   RCHAIN-4002 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  • 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

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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