104: Release candidate 1️⃣

Jun 22-28 2020

tl;dr

• release candidate of grin4 is out

• planning for grin5 is kicking off

• pro-bono audit underway

• funding for yeastplume, antioch, lehnberg to be decided in meeting tomorrow

Dev

• There are 82 open issues in /grin, and 37 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 4 in /grin | 5 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors

• Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3) is expected around July 15, 2020.

  • Node: RC1, Wallet: RC1

  • Release Candidate 1 out since a few days, only bug fixes at this point

  • Testing instructions and results for Node and Wallet

  • General HF3 info

• Some early sketches on v5.0.0 prioritization in this planning issue.

• There’s an anonymous pro-bono audit underway ahead of 4.0.0 release.

• @yeastplume weekly update.

• The last dev meeting reviewed 4.0.0 status and discussed v5.0.0 prioritization.

• @quentinlesceller has kicked off a rework of grin’s documentation, help out in #dev channel on keybase.

• Some soul-searching underway, revisiting past approaches on:

  • Fee structure (via @tromp)

  • Kernel uniqueness (via @antiochp)

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 07 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The following funding requests will be decided on in tomorrow’s governance meeting (those interested should participate):

  • @antiochp, Q3 2020

  • @lehnberg, Q3 2020

  • @yeastplume, Q3 2020

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 30 @ 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]

Final Comment Period

• Slatepack [wallet-dev] - disposition to be merged on Jun 30.

Accepted

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Closed

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“Puppy Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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