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Weekly development report as of 2024-04-12
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-04-12

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past two weeks, the ledger team has made significant progress in testing. They have improved data generation for conformance tests and ensured that the implementation is much more organized. Also, the team worked on infrastructure enhancements, implementing fixes for node v.8.10, making some post-release updates, and updating toolin...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-04-05
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-04-05

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team worked on the modification of LocalTxMonitor and HasTx functionalities improving cross-era behavior. The team completed most tests for the UTXO-HD branch within ouroboros-consensus, with ongoing efforts to resolve some issues in the mempool-parallel test. They also addressed an upstream issue within quickcheck-...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-05-24
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-05-24

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team focused primarily on conformance testing. Significant progress was made as the team completed conformance tests for the \`CERT and RATIFY\` rules and advanced other tests. These efforts also led to improvements in the constraint-generators framework. Additionally, the team fixed the stake pool operator stake distri...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-05-03
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-05-03

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the site reliability engineering (SRE) team continued working on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance. Some of the improvements include the deployment of Cardano node v.8.9.2 to mainnet, pre-production, preview, and shelley-qa environments along with the deployment of Cardano node v.8.10.1-pre to...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-09
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-09

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team merged changes related to bootstrap peers into the ouroboros-network repository and continued integration and testing using an early development version of cardano-node. In collaboration with DripDropz, the IOG team fixed a mistake in the CDDL specification that resulted in misleading documentation. The team al...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-01
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-01

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team added reference script support for Plutus V1 in Conway. The team is now writing tests, improving tooling, and fixing Conway-related bugs. This development comes with significant bug fixes, particularly addressing inaccuracies in stake distribution for DReps and stake pools. SMART CONTRACTS The Plutus team began i...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-08
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-08

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team published \`ouroboros-network-0.12.0.0, ouroboros-network-protocols-0.8.0.0 and ouroboros-network-api-0.7.0.0 packages into CHaP. Additionally, they updated and published ouroboros-consensus-0.16.0.0, ouroboros-consensus-cardano-0.14.0.0, cardano-cli-8.20.3.0 and cardano-api-8.39.2.0\`. The team fixed syncing ...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-26
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-26

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team worked on the integration of bootstrap peers with the Cardano node in an experimental branch and continued working on the tx-submission feature. They also collaborated with the CF on peer sharing improvements, compiled ouroboros-network packages with GHC-9.8, and modified the local-state-query mini-protocol to ...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-12
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-12

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released node v.8.7.3, which addresses a minor fix in ouroboros-network. This release resolves an issue in the outbound-governor where, under rare but reproducible conditions, the governor could lose track of certain outbound connections, such as a local root or another node. Benchmarking reports relevant...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-29
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-29

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team has been working on the final integration of node v.8.10.0-pre release to bring the latest changes to SanchoNet for governance testing. The ledger team enhanced test frameworks and data quality in Newconstraints phase3 by adding constraints and new types like Size, SizeSpec, and Sized. The team introduced unsaf...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-22
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-22

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the site reliability engineering (SRE) team has continued working on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance. They have successfully deployed cardano-node v.8.9.0 to all environments, and have created a new profile-cardano-db-sync-snapshots nixosModule, which is now available for snapshotting db-sync...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-15
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-03-15

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released node v.8.9.0, introducing Genesis Lite bootstrap peers. This version fixes a small bug in the dynamic block forging logic and also includes some overall improvements. Learn more about preparations for full P2P networking, an interim bootstrap network, and plans ahead in this blog post.  WALLETS ...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-23
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-23

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team worked on the integration of bootstrap peers with cardano-node to improve network connectivity. cardano-node-8.9 will be the first node to support this feature with more improvements to come gradually. The team also improved connections related to remote destinations, continued working on the tx-submission deci...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-16
Emmanuel
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-16

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released Cardano node v.8.8.0-pre, which enables testing Plutus V3 scripts on SanchoNet. Read more in the Voltaire section.  DB-Sync started integration with the latest version of the Cardano node. The ledger team focused on implementing fixes, writing tests, and improving testing frameworks. Critical b...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-15
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-15

Dear community members, please note that this is the last development update in 2023. We will resume publishing on January 12, 2024.  Wishing you all joyful holidays and a fantastic New Year! 🎄🎉 May the coming year bring new achievements, exciting developments, and continued success.  CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released node v....
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-08
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-08

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the performance team released benchmarking for node v.8.7.0 and performed the first-ever Conway benchmarks. They also worked on quality improvements to the tracing output and added a new test suite among other initiatives.  Over the past two weeks, the ledger team implemented the initial version of Conway conformance testing. Thi...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-01
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-12-01

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the site reliability engineering (SRE) team have continued working on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance. Particularly, they updated the Cardano node’s Nixos service to support SIGHUP peer-to-peer (P2P) topology reloading when the useSystemdReload option is enabled. The consensus team implement...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-02
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-02-02

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the DB Sync team prepared and tested a new db-sync version for mainnet and continued integrating Conway functionality also extending its modularity. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. SMART CONTRACTS This week, the Marlowe team continued working on marlowe-cardano by creating...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-24
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-24

This week, the core technology teams published the initial security analysis and responses for CIP-1694. The analysis covers various aspects, such as the constitutional committee, committee size, terms, registered DReps, ratification, content, protocol parameter groups, votes, separation of hard fork initiation from standard protocol parameter changes, and p...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-17
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-17

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past two weeks, the consensus team managed to run a UTXO-HD capable node in legacy mode, maintaining the baseline memory usage while keeping all the ledger state in memory (as the current node does). This legacy mode could provide an alternative for releasing a UTXO-HD capable node where users can choose whether or not to store the ...
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