Community Update 114

General

• Release
  • Node version 0.9.24 is the current release - second update post-mainnet - Housekeeping changes and meeting requirements of potential exchanges RNode-0.9.24 release plan
  • Testnet is currently running rnode version 0.9.24  

  • Mainnet is running RNode-0.9.23.  

• Sprint 49 in progress
  
  • Main Focus: hardening the mainnet, improve performance, make usability improvements.
  • Current Work In Progress - slow and steady
    • Configuration changes to make node deployments easier and cleaner - nutzipper working to complete this task and create tests
    • Ongoing - Improvements to last finalized state initial draft PR issued https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/2913  but quite a bit of work involved still. The PR and the branch are structured so that multiple people can collaborate/ work on different parts of the feature at the same time. The scope of this work enables (a) faster catchup by new nodes - you can start from the last finalized state - this is a differentiator for RChain (b) offloading older data and differentiated storage and retrieval strategies for the same (c) allows for a leaner / less bloated node
    • Creating a node.js API for exchanges that need it. We anticipate PR being available for review in the next couple of days. 
    • Augmenting and rationalizing monitoring of mainnet and other nets, including distributing monitoring over multiple cloud providers, for resilience 
    • The team is trying to expand development team through Teachouts, both for core development and dApps - Tuesday wallet and dApp sessions, short videos etc.
  • Current Backlog (partial)
    • Improve merging in system deploys
    • Improve Triemerge
    • Improve multi-parent Casper enablement
    • Implement sharding capabilities
    • Improve logging to be able to learn what API calls are being used, so they can be related to resource use and performance etc
    • Rholang 1.1 to improve syntax and user experience / learning curve
• Tech-Governance meetings on Thursdays 10 AM Eastern, 7 Am Pacific 

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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.
• Tech Governance + Community testing
  
  • Thursdays 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