High level summary
The SRE team continues work on cardano environment improvements and general environment maintenance.
Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:
- Cardano explorer is being sunset and will soon be replaced by a new Cardano Foundation explorer
- IOG mainnet pools are now participating in propagation time reporting using Cardano Foundation's blockperf tool
- Cardano-parts node nixosConfigurations, node entrypoint and process-compose node jobs now utilize mithril client automatically on preview and preprod networks for faster synchronization of first start up. Mainnet mithril client use as well as signer modules will be available soon.
Lower level summary
Cardano-mainnet
- Adds a blockperf reporting module to the bootstrap nodes and block producer relays: cardano-mainnet-pull-7
Cardano-parts
- Adds a block performance module which utilizes cardano-foundation's blockperf for aggregate block propagation reporting: cardano-parts-pull-29
- Adds a mithril client for nixosConfigurations, process-compose cardano-node processes and cardano-node entrypoint: cardano-parts-pull-30
Iohk-nix
- Adds required mithril client environment information for preview, preprod, mainnet: iohk-nix-pull-570
Cardano-world
- Add the sunset banner to explorer: cardano-world-commit
Upstream Contributions
Blockperf
- Add a nix flake with blockperf package and ci action: blockperf-pull-22