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Hydra Team Update

· One min read
Daniel Firth

High-level summary

This week, the Hydra team upgraded the hydra-node networking layer to use a versioned handshake protocol, as well as extensive documentation restructuring and bug fixes to the hydra-tui.

What did the team achieve this week

  • Use versioned hadshake when connecting hydra-nodes.
  • Restructure documentation.
  • Fixed the transaction envelope type parsing in order to be compatible with cardano-cli and update our docs.
  • Show the contestations in the hydra-tui
  • Experiment with removing persistence in the reliability layer and adding custom command to Reset the head state to the last confirmed snapshot

What are the goals of next week

  • Provide aarch64-linux docker images for hydra-node.
  • Release hydra-node 0.17.0
  • Finish new model spec changes related to decommit testing