High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team fixed a bug in the smoke test and refactored to allow network functions to distinguish between inbound and outbound. The team also prepared a cardano-api 8.44 branch for cardano-node 8.10 once it gets released. They also contributed to the cardano-ledger-api by undeprecating and exposing redeemerPointer.

What did the team achieve this week​

• Fix FaucetFailedToBuildTx in smoke test #1384
• Refactoring to allow network functions to distinguish between inbound and outbound
• Prepared a cardano-api 8.44 branch, but got blocked 👇
• Undeprecate redeemerPointer and expose it in cardano-ledger-api cardano-ledger#4259

What are the goals of next week​

• Complete new /commit endpoint interface #1350
• Refactor to allow NodeLogic to pass through connection messages, to unblock 👇
• Use versioned handshake when connecting hydra-nodes #1010
• Test all combinations of decrement/close/fanout for #1057
• Meet with tech writers about the landing page

High level summary​

The SRE team continues work on cardano environment improvements and general environment maintenance.

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

• Private chain for Voltaire team was respun for cardano-node 8.10.0-pre pre-release and re-hard forked into Conway era.

• Sanchonet was respun for cardano-node 8.10.0-pre pre-release and re-hard forked into Conway era.

• Cardano-node 8.10.0-pre was also deployed to one-third of IOGs preprod environment nodes and two-thirds of IOGs preview environment nodes.

Lower level summary​

Cardano-parts​

• Sets cardano-node|cli-ng to 8.10.0-pre, dbsync-ng to sancho-4.1.0; bumps nixpkgs (23.11) and nixpkgs-unstable; improves, adds new and fixes a number of just recipes; allows repo custom recipes to be kept as a separate import for easy justfile maintenance; refactors ip module checking into its own nixosModule and adds an extra abort option for safety. Much more detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-36

Cardano-mainnet​

• Bumps cardano-parts for a number of recipe additions, improvements, fixes. Fixes blockperf dnsmasq looksups and adjusts colmena topology code to account for intra-cluster localRoots now defaulting to trustable true and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#36. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-11

Cardano-perf​

• Add a new perf-ssd machine class and deployment for ssd related performance testing and benchmarking. Add new just recipes and cluster resource tagging. cardano-perf-compare

Cardano-playground​

• Bumps cardano-parts for a number of recipe additions, improvements, fixes, and node 8.10.0-pre. Respins private chain and sanchonet for node 8.10.0-pre with corresponding book updates and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#36. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-20

Iohk-nix​

• WIP: Prepares block producer configurations to accomodate upcoming peerSharing default change: iohk-nix-pull-575

• Provides iohk-nix updates for node 8.10: iohk-nix-pull-576

High level summary​

Most notable progress is on testing. In particular data generation for conformance test has been improved and the implementation organized. Addition of various Conway related unit and property tests.

Conway​

• pull-4236 - Fix typo in ToJSON of ConwayGovState
• pull-4250 - Add some ToJSON instances needed by cardano-node

Testing​

• pull-4221 - Fix a NoThunks test failure on nightly builds
• pull-4214 - Fix estimateMinFeeTx w/ bootstrap test
• pull-4189 - Imptests - treasury withdrawals
• pull-4207 - Added tests from a bug report
• pull-4238 - Imptests: ParameterChange affects ratification for in-flight proposals
• pull-4243 - Convert small-steps testsuite to Hspec
• pull-4248 - Fix withdrawals test data generation in EnactSpec
• pull-4212 - Update and reorganize conformance tests
• pull-4242 - Added UnitTestTools and IncrementalStakeTest

Infrastructure and releasing​

• pull-4219 - Fixes for 8.10 release
• pull-4225 - Post release updates
• pull-4235 - Revert to full formolu runs on CI
• pull-4239 - Use the Cabal-syntax package instead of the Cabal package
• pull-4234 - Add separate devShell for pre-commit
• pull-4245 - Plutus 1.25.0.0
• pull-4246 - Changelog for node release 8.10
• pull-4249 - Update tooling and minor fixups

Low level summary​

High level overview​

This week, the Mithril team continued implementing the certification of Cardano transactions in Mithril networks. They focused on scaling the signature and proof generation for mainnet, completed the incremental storage of transactions, activated the signature of the transactions on the testing-preview network, and prepared a new network to test the scaling on mainnet data. The team also made progress on a prototype for decentralizing signer registration with the relay and a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Additionally, they worked on refactoring the database providers of the aggregator.

Finally, the team delivered a community requested feature that displays the minimum versions of the Cardano node that the signer supports in a machine-readable format. They also provided a manual setup guide for the relay in the SPO user guide.

Low level overview​

• Completed the issue Implement incremental storage of Cardano transactions in signer/aggregator #1591
• Worked on the issue Mithril relay broadcasts signer registrations with P2P PubSub #1587
• Worked on the issue Refactor database module in aggregator #1583
• Worked on the issue ChainObserver supports retrieving the Chain Point of the tip of the chain #1589
• Worked on the issue Create file with Cardano minimum versions in repository #1615
• Worked on the issue Deploy testing-mainnet network #1617
• Worked on the issue Add section for manual setup of squid in SPO guide #1610
• Completed the issue Signer metrics server displays confusing log message #1620

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team released hydra 0.16.0, which supports cardano-node 8.9.0 and can interpret conway blocks on the cardano-node. We have also updated some hydra clients to be compatible with the new hydra api format, including hydraw and kupo.

What did the team achieve this week​

• Update our head and hydraw instance to master (a release candidate)
• Release 0.16.0 (without incremental decommits)
• Reproduce close > contest > contest scenarios using stateful testing
• Have end-to-end scenarios working for the improved /commit endpoint

What are the goals of next week​

• Complete the improved /commit endpoint to unblock users
• Potentially release 0.17.0 (with improved /commit endpoint)
• Wrap up the incremental decommit work including the decommit action into the new TxTrace tests
• Use Versioned Ouroboros protocol for handshaking between nodes.
• Update to cardano-api-8.44.