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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
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 1

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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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-10
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-10

This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, and consensus enhancements.  Over the last few weeks, the ledger team focused on the quality improvements of the Conway era implementation and the tooling used for ledger testing. They resolved several bugs related to the correct usage of DRep thresholds for ratification, treasury w...
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-19
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2024-01-19

CORE TECHNOLOGY Over the past few weeks, the ledger team implemented many features, including new ledger events, increasing the limit of the URL length, enabling consensus queries, and JSON instances. This was required for implementation testing of a reliable transaction fee estimation function, which is also available for cardano-cli now.  The team also a...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-03
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-11-03

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, many IOG teams are at the Cardano Summit 2023, contributing to the annual event with keynotes, panels, masterclasses, and a strong booth lineup of products and services on display. Read this blog post for more details.  The networking team continued working on bootstrapping peers, investigated CI processes, tested protocols and c...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-27
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-27

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the core technology teams continued working on node, networking, and consensus improvements. As always, see this technical development report for more details from different teams. SMART CONTRACTS This week, the Plutus tools team continued working on the Marconi API queries, Cardano node emulator for integration testing, and ke...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-20
Olga Hryniuk
Weekly development updatesDevelopment+ 2

Weekly development report as of 2023-10-20

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team focused on constraint-based testing and roundtrip serialization, which led to fixing a bug in the Conway Genesis serialization. They also worked on a Conway specialized ledger query for getting the constitutional committee state and preventing the submission of proposal procedures with no valid path to enactment. ...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-13
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-13

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the networking team focused on bootstrap peers' functionality review and typed protocols performance investigation.  The performance and tracing team continued the benchmarking of UTXO-HD, performed benchmarks for the new tracing system, and developed strategies for future benchmarks of Plutus v3 and UTXO-HD on-disk backing stora...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-06
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-10-06

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week, the ledger team achieved several milestones in Conway-related development. They fully implemented the constitutional committee, addressed governance actions related to treasury withdrawals, ensuring they now operate as expected, and enforced compliance with transaction rules by verifying the current treasury amount. They also impl...
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Weekly development report as of 2023-09-15
Olga Hryniuk
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Weekly development report as of 2023-09-15

CORE TECHNOLOGY This week in core technology, the performance and tracing team performed and analyzed feature benchmarks for UTXO-HD and the current P2P stack, made various improvements to the analysis pipeline, and implemented tracing namespace consistency checks along with a curated configuration for benchmarking. Work is ongoing on node, networking, and...
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