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Weekly development report as of 2023-08-25
Ivan Irakoze

Weekly development report as of 2023-08-25

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team continued working on the Conway era functionality. Downstream components can now utilize voting for delegate representatives (DReps) and stake pool operators. The team introduced new ledger state queries that enable the verification of governance state changes, including vote placement, governance proposal submissi...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-08-04
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-08-04

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team activated several default traces for node-to-client and node-to-node protocols, which are set to be released in node v.8.2.0. Additionally, they ensured that the cardano-client-0.1.0.x library (used by db-sync) does not use the experimental node-to-client protocol, while cardano-client-0.2.0.0 remains unaffecte...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-08-18
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-08-18

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the performance and tracing team finalized benchmarking node v.8.2.0. They also optimized the new tracing system and are currently working on documenting the tracing configuration.  Finally, they improved the Nomad backend to take advantage of the added flexibility of the new hardware cluster. As always, see this technical devel...
4 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-08-11
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-08-11

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams tagged and pre-released node v.8.2.1-pre for use on SanchoNet, which is a new development network created to introduce the Cardano community to governance features from CIP-1694 – and to build and test together in a controlled environment, through a rolling series of regular releases. See release notes fo...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-07-28
Fernando Sanchez

Weekly development report as of 2023-07-28

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released node v.8.1.2, which brings updates to the Plutus interpreter.  The ledger team focused on the implementation of Conway features into the ledger. Team members took part in the CIP-1694 workshop and had an in-person meeting discussing further steps for Conway era implementation. They also investig...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-07-21
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-07-21

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, consensus, and ledger components. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. WALLETS AND SERVICES This week, the Daedalus team released Daedalus v.5.3.0, which brings support for the new Project Catalyst registration pr...
5 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-07-14
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-07-14

You can read this report in English, Japanese and Spanish. CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the consensus team working on UTXO-HD discovered a space leak in the peer metrics code which was communicated to the networking team who proposed a fix for it. The team also conducted UTXO-HD benchmarks using a local immutable DB server, which demonstrated promising memor...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-06-30
Fernando Sanchez

Weekly development report as of 2023-06-30

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, consensus, and ledger components. The consensus team working on the Genesis implementation continued to engage with the researchers, which resulted in various simplifications of the correctness argument for the historical Genesis window. They also decided on an appr...
1 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-07-07
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-07-07

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the DB Sync team improved and validated the design of the Conway integration with db-sync. They also improved the initial integration of the UTXO-HD feature branches, which are now being tested, and prepared release v.13.1.1.3, which supports node v.8.1.1.  Finally, the team made some fixes to their build processes, Docker, devel...
1 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-06-23
Ivan Irakoze

Weekly development report as of 2023-06-23

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, consensus, and ledger components. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. WALLETS AND SERVICES This week, the Lace team released the wallet’s latest version, Lace v.1.2, which brings new browser support, new ways to ...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-06-16
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-06-16

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the networking team implemented a new light peer sharing feature, which allows the inclusion of inbound peers into the outbound governor's known peers. This is the primary method for new unregistered nodes to join the network, which can then be shared through peer sharing. Note that peer sharing is an experimental f...
4 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-06-09
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-06-09

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, consensus, and ledger components. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. WALLETS AND SERVICES  This week, the Lace team continued working on multi-delegation scope, completing work on stake distribution reporting an...
4 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-06-02
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-06-02

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams worked on the upcoming node v.8.1.0, which will introduce more Conway era support, epoch boundary optimizations, and new network packages, among other improvements. The ledger team made progress on the Conway ledger era, designing and working on implementing new certificates, and refactoring some of the ...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-05-26
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-05-26

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, and ledger improvements. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. WALLETS AND SERVICES  This week, the Lace team added the capability to the cardano-js-sdk backend to import multi-address wallets (eg, Daedalus) into t...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-05-19
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-05-19

日本語版はスクロールダウンしてください CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team worked on a new way to switch between root and ledger peers and continued working on Eclipse Evasion. They also made changes to the handshake protocol, improved flaky tests, and added cddl specs for NodeToNodeVersionData and NodeToClientVersionData. Finally, the team improved the CI and aut...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-05-12
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-05-12

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams released node v.8.0.0. This release brings a new governance action that facilitates conducting on-chain SPO polls, a fairness improvement in the mempool logic, and query commands that allow inspection of metrics and data in the mempool. Additionally, the CLI command query tip now provides more detailed ou...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-05-05
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-05-05

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team worked on the ouroboros-network component. After moving ouroboros-consensus to its own repository, the team made ouroboros-network compatible with GHC v.9.4 and v.9.6 and made the cardano-client library independent of ouroboros-consensus-diffusion. They also prepared the release of network packages for the upco...
1 up votes and 1 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-04-28
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-04-28

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the last two weeks, the ledger team continued making progress on CIP-1694 and the Conway ledger era development. In particular, they added Plutus v3 support to Conway, modified delegation certificates, and added some governance ledger states. The team also made small improvements to the ledger API and now host the Haskell code documenta...
1 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-04-21
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-04-21

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team published io-sim and five other packages to Hackage along with a blog post about this on IOG’s engineering website. io-sim was developed along with ouroboros-network, and its functionality has been growing with more features added upon requirement. The consensus team continued working on the improved DB lock m...
2 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score
Weekly development report as of 2023-04-14
Olga Hryniuk

Weekly development report as of 2023-04-14

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, consensus, and networking improvements. The performance and tracing team worked on adjusting their infrastructure to the new 8.0 release branch, conducted an early run of benchmarking, and profiled the new tracing system to minimize its resource footprint and ensure high throug...
3 up votes and 0 down votes. Total score