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· 2 min read
Jordan Millar

2022-11-02 - 2022-11-15

High level summary​

  • Documentation improvments
  • Merged community contributions
  • Exposing types from cardano-api requested by the community/other teamss
  • Test output has been improved so diagnosing failures is now easier
  • Enabling stale bot to close stale issues and PRs (reduces clutter on the node repo)
  • Refactoring of cardano-testnet making it more useable as a library (ongoing)
  • Release 1.35.4 was merged & released

Completed​

cardano-cli​

cardano-api​

cardano-node​

cardano-testnet​

In Progress​

cardano-cli​

cardano-api​

cardano-node​

· One min read
Samuel Leathers

Node Reelease Update​

2022-10-19 - 2022-11-02​

Executive Summary​

The team is formalizing the new release process and team structure. Both preview/preprod environments have been reset, a temporary pv8 environment has been created for testing SECP before preview is updated to protocol version 8.

1.35.4 release candidates have been created and are being tested internally and externally.

Completed​

In Progress​

· One min read
Dorin Solomon

High level summary​

We have been focused on:

  • Fully opening our test results (on top of the existing tests & tools):
    See cardano-node-tests webpage.
  • Started to test and automate the new functionalities added in the 1.35.4-rc1 node tag
    See test results tracking page.
  • Made some improvements to the automated db-sync sync tests
    See db-sync tests.
  • Multiple cleanups and updates to the cardano-node-tests framework
  • Updated the nightly pipelines for the cardano-node-tests after the Babbage HF

· One min read
Kostas Dermentzis

High level summary​

The DBSync team is preparing a release which introduces schema simplifications, removes indexes, unique and foreign keys. It also provides a way to fix older values and migrates without the need to resync from genesis.

Lower level summary​

Schema simplifications​

Indexes, Unique and Foreign keys are removed in order to speedup syncing #1295 The same pr also introduces a different way to rollback, which doesn't rely on foreign keys and indexes.

Performance​

The DBSync team ran a big number of benchmarks and investigated ways to speedup syncing. A conservative number of these will be included in the next release and the rest can be found in performance view.

Migrations and resyncing​

The next release will be 13.1.0, it will enable a migration without the need to resync. It will also introduce a procedure that fixes bytes values of Datum and RedeemerData in existing databases #1294

Release​

The release has been mostly cherry-picked from master #1294 and its scope can be seen release view

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High level summary​

This week, the hydra team completed several user experience improvements to the hydra-tui and hydra-node, and delivered a first version of persisted head states by publishing release version 0.8.0. Besides this, they met with researchers on topic of the HeadV1 specification and kicked-off work on the RFP for an external audit of the Hydra Head protocol and implementation.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Completed the UX improvements on the hydra-tui
  • Released version 0.8.0, which delivers a first version of persisted head states
  • Met with researchers on the HeadV1 specification
  • Started work on the RFP for our external audit

What are the goals of next week​

  • Complete ADR18 implementation and get it merged
  • Start work on event-sourced persistence #580
  • Have a first plutus script gap closed #452
  • Revamp CI to use flakes and build macos artifacts (stretch goal: migrate to cicero for nix builds)