#82: Security team proposed 👮‍♂️

Covering Jan 21-27 2020

News

• Initial information and timelines for the scheduled v4.0.0 upgrade (in July 2020).

Dev

• There are 95 open issues in /grin, and 27 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 4 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors

• The dev meeting covered a lot of things including: triaging processes, overlay networks/i2p on node, release planning, decision to not have min rust version requirement, investigation into stable branch, and packaging.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• Draft PR implementing async/.await functionality in the P2P layer by @jaspervdm

• Technical discussion on VRF based mining in the forum.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Feb 04 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Draft RFC proposing a new security sub-team by @joltz.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 28 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

• Security Subteam [core] - NEW!

Open

• Grin 2020 Roadmap [core]

Final Comment Period

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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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