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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team identified and resolved issues with a malfunctioning head on mainnet, implementing preventive measures. They edited and merged a new Architectural Decision Record (ADR) proposed by SundaeLabs, upgraded cardano-node to version 8.7.2, and improved the TUI user experience. Preparations for "Conway support" were initiated, and updates were made to logs and API schemas. Additionally, initial steps were taken towards incremental decommits.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Troubleshoot and recover a broken head on mainnet. Opened issue #1202 and PR avoiding this in-flight #1211
  • Designed and proposed a new ADR to generalize EventSource and EventSinks#1157, contributed by SundaeLabs.
  • Upgrade cardano-node to 8.7.2 #1199 and re-enables e2e nix-shell support on Darwin #1203
  • UX enhancement on TUI #1201
  • Preparations for "Conway support" #1177[#1206 & #1207]
  • Update logs and api schemas #1212
  • First steps on incremental decommits #1057:
    • Drafted the e2e workflow #1205
    • Added decommit API endpoints #1209

What are the goals of next week​

  • Detect incompatible blocks and provide better UX
  • Conway support in hydra-node
  • Off-chain logic for incremental decommits