It's time for our tri-weekly DevUpdate. Here's a quick look at what our devs have been upto these last three weeks.

25 Apr 2023, 12:01

It’s time for our tri-weekly DevUpdate!! Here’s a quick look at what our devs have been upto these last three weeks 🟡 Better Configurations 🟡 First, we’ve massively improved the configurability of HOPRd by allowing it to ingest configurations from a YAML file. The new configuration layering of the daemon is 3-fold and much more comprehensive than before. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4796 🟡 Relay Mechanism 🟡 Next, we buffed the relay mechanism by: 👉 Adding a pruning mechanism to the Relay code to evict inactive connections. 👉 Adding RelayState clean-up & limiting the maximum relayed connections. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4916 🟡 Memory Consumption & Avado 🟡 Memory issues have been a sore issue for us for a few months, but this sprint: 👉 We managed to fix the excessive memory consumption in our JS <> WASM <> Rust architecture. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4910 👉 And, introduced much better memory tracking for our Avados with the superlance plugin and memmon tool. You can expect your Avado's performance to improve with this next release. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4898 🟡 Staking Season 7 🟡 Staking Season 7 is around the corner, and this required a few updates to our existing smart contracts. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4906 🟡 Stress Testing & Logging 🟡 Now that HOPR is supporting a commercial service, we're constantly improving our testing setup. This sprint, we introduced a much more excessive stress testing setup and improved the hoprd logging process. github.com/hoprnet/hoprnet/pull/4864 🟡 Notable Changes 🟡 👉 The hopr-operator can now deploy nodes when a PR is labelled 👉 hopli has been extended with express node initiation 👉 We’ve improved networking with a clean-up of dead connections in the libp2p connection manager and introduced a mitigation for connection leakages 🟡 Bug Fixes & Improvements 🟡 Finally, we rounded off the sprint with fixes to: 👉 The docker build triggers 👉 cachix nix install 👉 And the heartbeat metrics