Node API & CLI Team Update

Node-Api-Cli Update

2022-10-04 - 2022-10-18

Executive Summary

The majority of the team's time was spent between getting 1.34.4 ready, addressing various feature requests/issues/bugs that have arisen and refactoring components in the api and cli. The current refactoring is aimed at the long term goal of empowering users to be able to easily build applications similar to cardano-cli.

Completed

• GHC 9.2.4 preparations

cardano-cli

• [Serenity] - Separate IO from txBuild and txBuildRaw functions

cardano-api

• [BUGFIX] - TxWitness text envelope format does not roundtrip in Shelley era

cardano-node

• Fix MacOS GHA CI

In Progress

• Release 1.34.4

cardano-cli

• [BUGFIX] - Fix query era mismatch bug in transaction build command
• [Serenity] - Condense Read and Validation modules in cardano-cli
• [BUGFIX]- Stop the cli from changing the bytes in user-supplied data
• Infer protocol params in transaction build
• Allow assembling transactions with no witnesses
• Add tx-mempool command to CLI

cardano-api

• Return Lovelace for calculateMinimumUTxO
• Make TxBodyContent an instance of Monoid
• Auto-balance multiasset transactions

cardano-node

• Stop running CI when the only changes are to docs
• Rename TestEnableDevelopmentHardForkEras