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.
  • Hardening
    • Merged - 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 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  RCHAIN-3997 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • 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   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
    • 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

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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