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Mithril Team Update

· 2 min read
Jean-Philippe Raynaud

High level overview​

This week the Mithril team announced the release of a new Mithril distribution 2408.0. This release includes several critical updates and enhancements, such as improved support for stake distribution, Mithril era markers retrieval in the Pallas chain observer, enhanced support for the Conway era and Sanchonet network, as well as various bug fixes and performance improvements. In addition, the team has made changes to the Mithril client CLI, changing the log output from stdout to stderr from v0.7.0. This announcement was made in the developer blog post.

The team kept implementing the data type for certifying Cardano transactions within Mithril networks: they completed the support for the verification in the browser with the WASM client, they worked on enhancing the associated client CLI API, and implemented smoke tests. Additionally, the team has activated the signature of Cardano transactions on the testing-sanchonet network, and they have investigated a bug that prevents the signature of some transactions on this network.

Finally, the team worked on reorganizing the repository structure, fixed an issue with test folder generation on MacOS, and worked on some documentation improvements.

Low level overview​

  • Released the new distribution 2408.0
  • Publication of a dev blog post about the Mithril SanchoNet network release.
  • Publication of a dev blog post about a breaking change in the Mithril client CLI.
  • Completed the issue Implement Cardano Transactions commands in the client binary #1469
  • Completed the issue Implement Cardano Transactions verification in the WASM client #1470
  • Completed the issue Some end to end tests are flaky in the CI #1147
  • Completed the issue Release 2408 distribution #1500
  • Completed the issue Unify test folder generation #1508
  • Completed the issue Adapt Mithril Client multi-platform test for Cardano Transactions #1510
  • Completed the issue Document Mithril signer footprint #1519
  • Completed the issue Add a runbook for running Client multi-platform tests #1530
  • Completed the issue Update workflow github actions to node-20 #1520
  • Worked on the issue Cardano transactions are not all signed in testing-sanchonet #1537
  • Worked on the issue Make HTTP server tests more robust #1524
  • Worked on the issue Stabilize namings in Cardano Transactions API #1535
  • Worked on the issue Reorganize crates in the repository #1528
  • Worked on the issue Enhance Mithril/Cardano node communication #1315
  • Worked on the issue P2P threat modeling and risk analysis #1350