101: v4 betas have shipped 📦
Jun 01-07 2020
tl;dr
Grin node and wallet v4.0.0 betas are out
Grin wallet was patched to v3.1.2
Jaspervdm is on a leave of absence
News
Grinnode.live has awarded all prizes in the Node Challenge, and donated the remainder Grin to the general fund.
New Grin mining pool announced: Pacific Pool
Dev
There are 75 open issues in /grin, and 30 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 4 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors
Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3) is expected around July 15, 2020.
Beta1 for node + wallet have been released → We need your help testing.Grin-wallet was patched to v3.1.2, fixing an issue with transacting using Tor.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 09 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
In the last governance meeting, Jaspervdm passed on an update that he’s taking a leave of absence from the project for personal reasons. In addition, there was a review of open RFCs and planning for the v4.0.0 beta releases.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]
Slatepack [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
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Accepted
RFC0014: General fund spending guidelines [core]
RFC0013: No Recent Duplicate (NRD) Kernels [node-dev]
Closed
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