# Engineering Weekly Update - 2021-07-12

**URL:** <https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-07-12/3514>\
**Category:** Engineering Updates\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-07-12/3514 "2021-07-12T18:39:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![nearmax](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/nearmax/32/13344_2.png) [@nearmax](https://gov.near.org/u/nearmax)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/engineering-weekly-update-2021-07-12/3514/1 "2021-07-12T18:39:21Z")

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# Brief Summary

- Node can now shutdown cleanly with SIGTERM, SIGINT, and Ctrl+C;
- [Mochi DAO](https://v2.sputnik.fund/#/mochi.sputnik-dao.near) will be used to alleviate Developer Platform from smaller work items;
- Wallet are making process improvements to increase velocity;
- Transaction Runtime is making steady progress towards sharding;

# Results

- Node Experience released 1.20.0-rc1 on Testnet;
- [Rust SDK book](https://sdk-g4yv.onrender.com/) is taking shape;
- Developer Platform had a long and thoughtful discussion on Rust SDK and decided that Rust SDK book will land in explanation quadrant, and [near\_sdk - Rust](https://docs.rs/near-sdk/latest/near_sdk) will land in reference quadrant, see below  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/2X/5/554602c403a7db8ad4ef6bb989ba4d51f24bc06e.png)
- Developer Platform [cleaned up logging calls in nearcore Python tests.](https://github.com/near/nearcore/pull/4414) Node Experience team rejoice 🙂
- Wallet made [a new release](https://github.com/near/near-wallet/pull/1891);
- Wallet now displays a splash screen for newly foundation-funded accounts;
- Transaction runtime can now run state application in separate threads per chunk;
- Contract Runtime has researched gas metering overhead;

# Challenges and Blockers

- Node Experience is [blocked on adding CI check for publishing crates](https://github.com/near/nearcore/issues/4379). An input from Contact Runtime team (@matklad ) and Node Interfaces team (@frol ) is required. Also Developer Platform team needs to be aware of it (@jim , @mikedotexe );
- Runtime param estimator is showing discrepancies depending on how people write benchmarks and how they run it. Someone needs to own DevX of this tool. @Longarithm and @nearmax are looking into it. This is creating disruptions for Aurora and Transaction Runtime teams;

# Full Reports

- [Node Experience](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/70);
- [Developer Platform](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/71);
- [Wallet](https://github.com/near/community/discussions/72);
- [Chain+Transaction Runtime](https://github.com/near/community/blob/master/meetings/chain-wg.md#july-12th-2021);
- [Contract Runtime](https://github.com/near/community/blob/master/meetings/contract-runtime-wg.md#08072021);