High level summary
The SRE team continues work on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance.
Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:
Sanchonet was respun after a community scheduled test hardfork to PV11
Buildkite agent modules were added to cardano-playground
Adds a latest tag GHA action to cardano-node upon new release publication
Repository Work
Cardano-parts
- Cardano-node has been updated to
10.1.4, cardano-cli and the -ng variant to
10.1.1.0 and 10.2.0.0 respectively, and mithril to v2450. Colmena has
been updated to utilize a new pure flake evaluation approach. New nix jobs were
added for a new "next-gen" network spin up method, which supports network
creation with a fork directly to Conway and then retirement of the genesis
bootstrap pool in favor of on-chain registered backbone pools. CI tests to
support these new jobs were added. The recipe to query governance actions was
updated with the latest voting calculations and the output was improved with
color and additional reporting totals. A psql prepared statement for voting
activity over time was added to the postgres module. Other small miscellaneous
improvements and clean up were made with details available in the release
notes:
cardano-parts-release-v2025-01-17
Cardano-playground
- Cardano-node has been updated to
10.1.4, mithril to v2450 and all envs
deployed. Buildkite modules were added to support fast buildkite agent scaling
in any AWS region. Sanchonet was respun after a planned community hard fork test.
The recipe to query governance actions was updated with the latest voting
calculations. A new start-demo-ng recipe was added to utilize a new
"next-gen" spin up method. More detail is available in the PR description:
cardano-playground-pull-39
Cardano-mainnet
- Cardano-node has been updated to
10.1.4 and mithril to v2450 and all machines
deployed. The mainnet canary dashboard was updated with a governance voting
analysis panel. The recipe to query governance actions was updated with the
latest voting calculations. More detail is available in the PR description:
cardano-mainnet-pull-29
Cardano-node
- Adds GHA steps to push a latest tag for node and api containers on release
events where the tag is the latest release. Updates the docker-compose to
default to the latest tag and bumps iohk-nix for an updated target number of
established peers. Fixes related configs to pass CI checks.
cardano-node-pull-6057
