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· 2 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • Cardano-node and cardano-cli versions are now set to 10.3.1 and 10.7.0.0, respectively, in cardano-parts release v2025-04-28.

Repository Work -- Merged​

Cardano-parts​

  • Sets node pre-release (ng) to 10.3.1 and cardano-cli pre-release (ng) to 10.7.0.0 and updates nix jobs and ci to accommodate cardano-cli pre-release breaking changes. Improves a show_current_forging prepared psql query and makes other miscellaneous improvements. cardano-parts-release-v2025-04-17

  • Sets node release to 10.3.1, cardano-cli release to 10.7.0.0. cardano-parts-release-v2025-04-28

Cardano-mainnet​

  • Sets node release to 10.3.1 and cardano-cli release to 10.7.0.0. Removes prometheus key uid in the dashboards, adds trace-verbose debugging for tofu cluster builds, improves license notice attribution, bumps ci nix to 2.28.1. cardano-mainnet-pr-33

Cardano-node​

  • Adds checkpoint and peer snapshot files to the binary artifact context. Bumps node version to 10.3.1. Adds a cardano-node artifact test using nixosTests. cardano-node-pr-6177

  • Adds the consensus snapshot-converter to pkgs and the release bins. Fixes the ci artifact nixosTest for the larger tarball size. Removes a local haskellNix windows override that has been upstreamed. Bumps iohkNix for LedgerDB cfg and make corresponding ci adjustments. cardano-node-pr-6195

Cardano-playground​

  • Sets node pre-release (ng) to 10.3.1 and cardano-cli pre-release (ng) to 10.7.0.0. Improves a show_current_forging prepared psql query and makes other miscellaneous improvements. Improvements made in cardano-parts release v2025-04-17 are included in this PR. cardano-playground-pr-42

  • Sets node release to 10.3.1 and cardano-cli release to 10.7.0.0. Rotates KES for all environments, addresses IPFS occasional OOM, scales preview for RAM, updates the book configuration. cardano-playground-pr-43

Iohk-nix​

  • Adds explicit per environment LedgerDB default config for node 10.4.x. iohk-nix-pr-597

Repository Work In Progress -- PRs and Branches​

· 2 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • After upgrading hydra to new hardware and increasing eval concurrency for better ci throughput, an upstream hydra bug caused builds to frequently block in hydra's queue runner. The root caused was investigated and resolved with the fix to the issue pushed upstream.

  • A sizeable chunk of effort for this biweekly was invested in cardano-node's new tracing system, in particular between cardano-node, iohk-nix and cardano-parts repositories. Test machines were built and deployed using the latest tracing system changes intended for node 10.3 with comparisons between new tracing and legacy tracing metrics made and the few remaining discrepancies addressed by the performance and tracing team. New tracing system dashboards and alerts were prepared with recent changes. Configurations in each repo were prepared for a switch to the new tracing system as default. Readiness to migrate cardano-parts clusters to the new tracing system is close!

Repository Work -- Merged​

Cardano-node​

Repository Work In Progress -- PRs and Branches​

· 2 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • The cardano-node flake closure was cleaned up and optimized for an ~18% size reduction.

  • Cardano-node oci image improvements were merged and should be available with the next cardano-node release image; see the PR details below.

  • The nix hydra machine used for cardano-node builds was migrated to upgraded hardware allowing for better evaluation concurrency and therefore an enhanced dev ci experience.

  • Long cardano-node nix ci eval times were preliminarily investigated and it appears this can likely be improved significantly in the near future.

Repository Work -- Merged​

Cardano-automation​

  • Removes deprecated flake inputs for optimization purposes and adds ci via GHA. The flake optimization here is also passed to cardano-node. cardano-automation-pr-7

Cardano-node​

  • OCI improvements: adds symlinked configuration files for cardano environments, adds a new cardano-node oci image "merge" mode, improves documentation, reduces path inconsistencies between images modes (cardano-node oci script, merge, custom modes) and oci-images (cardano-node and cardano-submit-api). More detail is available in the PR description. cardano-node-pr-6110

  • Byron-to-Alonzo scripts and env clean up: removes deprecated environments and dependencies, adds testnet template support, improves the byron to alonzo script set and documents. More detail is available in the PR description. cardano-node-pr-6123

  • Flake clean up and optimization: removes uneeded inputs and overlay, applies alejandra fmt, adds alejandra to dev/devops devShell, reduces overall flake closure size by ~18%. More detail is available in the PR description. cardano-node-pr-6144

Devx-ci​

  • The nix hydra build machine was migrated to new hardware with more memory. Deprecated ziti code was cleaned up. devx-ci-commit-compare

Inputs-check​

  • The inputs-check tool was improved to make usage easier in non-flake-parts flakes, fix a top level duplicate inputs bug, improve docs with better instructions and more example usage, and add minimal ci. inputs-check-pr-1

Repository Work In Progress -- PRs and Branches​

· 2 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • Cardano-node and cardano-cli pre-release (-ng) are now set to 10.2.1 and 10.4.0.0, respectively, in cardano-parts.

  • IoE Sanchonet environment and resources were retired.

  • Cardano-parts added module and template support for SRV DNS records which an upcoming version of cardano-node will utilize.

Repository Work -- Merged​

Capkgs:​

  • Adjusts the package fetchClosure path to avoid store re-writing
  • Adds some just recipe env checks
  • Updates the check recipe to work with package attrs with embedded "capkgs-pr-3

Cardano-parts​

  • Sets node pre-release (-ng) to 10.2.1, cardano-cli pre-release to 10.4.0.0 and mithril-cli to v2506.0. Cleans up deprecated environments such as private, shelley-qa and sanchonet. Includes a number of improvements with details available in the release notes: cardano-parts-release-v2025-02-26

Cardano-playground​

  • Sets node pre-release (-ng) to 10.2.1, cardano-cli pre-release to 10.4.0.0 and mithril-cli to v2506.0. Cleans up deprecated environments such as private, shelley-qa and sanchonet. More detail is available in the PR description. cardano-playground-pr-41

Cardano-mainnet​

  • Sets node pre-release (-ng) to 10.2.1, cardano-cli pre-release to 10.4.0.0 and mithril-cli to v2506.0. Cleans up deprecated environments such as private, shelley-qa and sanchonet. More detail is available in the PR description. cardano-mainnet-pr-31

Iohk-nix​

  • This PR removes cardano-lib private, sanchonet, shelley_qa and legacy testnet environments, all of which are shutdown. It also adds a default peer snapshot file per environment, updates the usePeersFromLedgerAfterSlot value per environment, cleans up some unused code and makes some lsp lint suggested changes: iohk-nix-pr-593

Repository Work In Progress -- PRs and Branches​

· One min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • IoE Sanchonet pools and community bootstrap relays are being terminated as Sanchonet has fulfilled its purpose. The community will carry Sanchonet forward a little longer for an environment to run some community workshops organized by Mike Hornan.

  • Cardano-node container image improvement work is in progress. The node PR listed as WIP below will be additionally followed up by another in the near future to support the new cardano-node tracing system.

Repository Work -- Merged​

Cardano-node​

Iohk-nix​

Repository Work -- PRs and Branches, WIP​