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· 3 min read
John Lotoski

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-node 9.0.0 is now deployed to mainnet, preprod, preview, private and shelley-qa environments. The last several weeks have been very busy with pre-release and release activity and environment upgrades involving cardano-node versions 8.9.3, 8.9.4, 8.12.0-pre, 8.12.1, 8.12.2 and now 9.0.0 as of this update.

  • Sanchonet environment remains pinned at cardano-node version 8.11.0-pre until the next respin which will support 9.0.0 or greater.

  • Ogmios service and package options were added to cardano-parts.

  • Four documents were added to cardano-playground to better explain some operational procedures: debugging of peer-to-peer connections; governance voting with the playground stakepools; faucet setup; faucet pool de-delegation. Found at: docs/explain

  • One document was added to cardano-mainnet to explain cardano-snapshot operations. Found at: docs/explain

  • Private chain was stopped and re-spun with 2 hr epochs for testing.

  • Hydra and performance cluster machines had their configuration updated to be more robust to transient nix store caches outages which may re-occur in the future.

  • All machines in cardano-playground and cardano-mainnet clusters were updated to nixpkgs 24.05.

Lower level summary​

Cardano-mainnet​

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.12.2 as well as usage of a custom gc delay parameter branch for bootstrap nodes. Updates all machines to nixpkgs to 24.05 with openssh 9.8p1. Adds one new explainer readme document, new alerts and various script, recipe, and other improvements. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-16

Cardano-ops​

  • Bumps to cardano-node 9.0.0, adds coredump metrics, adds OOM/coredump alerting, adjusts systemd stop timeout to avoid some unneccesary chain replays: cardano-ops-compare

Cardano-parts​

  • Sets cardano-node (release) and cardano-node-ng (pre-release) versions to 8.12.2 and cardano-db-sync-ng to sancho-5-0-0. Updates nixpkgs to 24.05. Includes nixosModule, dashboard, metric, alert and recipe improvements and new features. More detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-43

Cardano-perf​

  • Adjusts nix config to avoid R2 500 errors on transient cache problems and adds explorer to perf class: cardano-perf-compare

Cardano-playground​

  • Sets cardano-node (release) and cardano-node-ng (pre-release) versions to 8.12.2 and cardano-db-sync-ng to sancho-5-0-0. Updates all machines to nixpkgs to 24.05 with openssh 9.8p1. Respins private chain and KES rotates multiple chains. Adds four new explainer readme documents, new alerts and various script, recipe, and other improvements. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-27

Iohk-nix​

Ops-lib​

  • Updates deployers with recent nixpkgs, nix, refactors to preserve legacy nixops usage, adds starship and fzf: ops-lib-pull-134

  • Bumps openssh to 9.8p1 ops-lib-pull-135

· 2 min read
Alexey Kuleshevich

High level summary​

This period we added some last minute changes that were necessary for improving resilience and safety of Conway implementation:

  • Authorization of hot credentials for constitutional committee members is now only possible for cold credentials that are present in the ledger state, either in the current committee or in one of the proposals.
  • Voting is restricted to entities that are present in the ledger state
  • DRep votes will be removed whenever DRep unregisters
  • Pricing model for the size of reference scripts was changed from linear to exponential. Moreover, extra limits on the total size of reference scripts being used have been put in place.

Low level summary​

Conway​

  • pull-4430 - CostModel json parsing
  • pull-4438 - Fix UTXOW era in diagrams for Conway
  • pull-4443 - Make reference scripts fee grow exponentially with size
  • pull-4436 - Authorize known cc members only
  • pull-4433 - Improve resilience of future PParams
  • pull-4453 - Tx refscript size check
  • pull-4452 - Prevent votes for non existent entities
  • pull-4450 - BBODY refscript size check

Testing​

  • pull-4417 - constrained-generators: use consistent warning pragma
  • pull-4431 - constrained-generators: fix flakyness in set generator
  • pull-4312 - Convert AlonzoValidTxUTXOW to ImpTest (Part 1)
  • pull-4386 - Increase the size of the committee for testing
  • pull-4425 - Conformance test plumbing: EPOCH
  • pull-4442 - Update executable-spec SRP
  • pull-4405 - Add more scripts to alonzo utxosspec
  • pull-4445 - Conformance tests plumbing: NEWEPOCH
  • pull-4460 - Remove unnecessary allocation in non-integral reference code
  • pull-4457 - Conformance: POOL: Translate and adjust

Infrastructure and releasing​

· 2 min read
Jean-Philippe Raynaud

High level overview​

This week, the Mithril team continued implementing the certification of Cardano transactions in Mithril networks. They completed the low-latency certification with the retrieval of transactions using the chain sync mini-protocol and Pallas and worked on fixing some bugs occurring during the warmup phase of the signer and aggregator. They also worked on supporting the new Cardano node version 8.12 and kept redacting a draft CIP for the diffusion of Mithril signatures through the Cardano network.

Finally, the team fixed a bug that prevented the parsing of some blocks in the SanchoNet network and made some optimizations on the databases of the signer and aggregator.

Low level overview​

  • Completed the issue Import Cardano transactions with ChainReader #1705
  • Completed the issue Cardano signatures are not produced on testing-sanchonet #1750
  • Completed the issue SQLite WAL files are not truncated in signer and aggregator #1707
  • Completed the issue Conditional embedding of Cardano CLI in Docker images #1725
  • Worked on the issue CIP for Mithril signature diffusion through Cardano network #1775
  • Worked on the issue Optimize Cardano transaction prover performances with parallelization #1756
  • Worked on the issue Upgrade Cardano node 8.12.2 #1787
  • Worked on the issue Aggregator/Signer preload transactions when Cardano transactions certification is not activated #1782
  • Worked on the issue Cardano transaction importer does not import the last block advertised as certified #1785
  • Worked on the issue Lint Markdown/JavaScript files in repository #1754

· One min read
Damian Nadales

High level summary​

  • Supported debugging activities related to bootstrap nodes.
  • Merged various improvements to the db-X tools; in particular, db-truncater (which is used regularly by community members on sanchonet) got much faster.

· 2 min read
Jean-Philippe Raynaud

High level overview​

This week, the Mithril team released the threat modeling explainer for the documentation website. They also continued implementing the certification of Cardano transactions in Mithril networks and the low-latency certification with the retrieval of transactions using the chain sync mini-protocol and Pallas. Additionally, the team started redacting a draft CIP for the diffusion of Mithril signatures through the Cardano network.

Finally, they fixed a bug that prevented the verification of the transactions included in the last certified block and improved the WASM client's documentation.

Low level overview​

  • Completed the issue Threat modeling and risk analysis #1350
  • Completed the issue Implement database connection pooling for Cardano transaction repository #1760
  • Completed the issue Import Cardano transactions by sequences of block ranges #1766
  • Completed the issue Limit Cardano transactions prover input #1757
  • Completed the issue Transactions of the block number in the artifact are never certified by the prover #1762
  • Completed the issue Add missing pre-requisite to build WASM client #1753
  • Worked on the issue Import Cardano transactions with ChainReader #1705
  • Worked on the issue CIP for Mithril signature diffusion through Cardano network #1775
  • Worked on the issue Optimize Cardano transaction prover performances with parallelization #1756
  • Worked on the issue Cardano signatures are not produced on testing-sanchonet #1750
  • Worked on the issue Lint Markdown/JavaScript files in repository #1754