Brief Summary
- This week we were busy defining Q1 OKRs, so we don’t have many updates;
- Nearcore v1.24.0 Testnet release is planned for Jan 17, 2022;
- We are steadily getting rid of simulation tests in favor of workspaces-rs;
- We investigated OOM issue on Testnet and improved memory usage;
Results
- Check out the notes from the recent NEAR Validator Advisory Board Meeting;
- Node Experience made nearcore start faster and fixed inflation test;
- Checkout Node Experience Q1 2022 issue board;
- Core Tools are gradually switching examples from simulation tests to workspaces-rs;
- Core Tools refactored workspaces-rs and started working on fast-forwarding;
- Frontier Tools transformed JS SDK into enclave, but without separate state, cross-contract calls, storage charges;
- Core Protocol reduced memory usage by improving chunk validation;
- Core Protocol did lots of cleanup of network and chain code (30-40 PRs);