High level summary
- Released Consensus for Node 8.11 (#1101)
- Improved the Praos chain order:
- Restricted VRF tiebreaker based on slot distance (#1047)
- Small tweak to the issue number tiebreaker (#1086)
- Wrote overview on the statistics on the leader schedule (#1096)
- Integrated robustness refinement for concluding that a node is caught up in the context of bootstrap peers (#1031)
- The P&T team managed to complete the UTXO-HD benchmarks using the LMDB backend and the results are promising.
- We're working on setting up the Consensus Technical Working Group within Intersect, so if you'd like to participate please reach out to Damian Nadales.
