Community Update 111

General

• Release

  • Node version 0.9.23 is the current release - first update post-mainnet - that improves performance and adds getBlocksByHeight in all APIs RNode-0.9.23 release plan

  • Testnet is currently running rnode version 0.9.23  

  • Mainnet continues to run Release RNode-0.9.22.  Going forward, our intention is to allow sufficient time for dApp developers and validators to exercise the new release in the testnet or local environments and make sure there are no problems before we update the mainnet.  There may be exceptions to this whereby we may update the mainnet quickly after a release if the release contains critical patches for security or other urgent issues.

• Sprint 49 in progress

  • Main Focus: hardening the mainnet, improve performance, make usability improvements. Mainnet has been running for a little over 3 weeks with release 0.9.22.

  • Highlights of Changes included in RNode-0.9.23 release

    • getBlocksByHeight is implemented in all APIs - blockAPI, web API, grpc API. Limits the depth of blocks requested to 50.  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2899  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-4045

    • Updated unbonding tests to include validator rewards https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2887

    • Logs are made configurable and appendable https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2898  Details on how to use at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/wiki/Logging-Config docs  Jira ticket https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-4044

    • Improve message propagation https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2902  (a) Lower system load by discarding duplicate messages and (b) reduce GRPC message stream bloat by enabling parallelism (c) Put block into blockstore before block processing lock  prompted by https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3913

    • Make arguments lazy in boolean higher kinded combinators https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-4052  https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2903

    • Providing API changes / improvements requested by exchanges

    • Updated all the networks to use SSL.

• Tech-Governance meetings on Thursdays 10 AM Eastern, 7 Am Pacific 

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.

• Tech Governance + Community testing

  • March 19 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