Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. — Joyce Meyer

Dev Update

The current release, as I’m sure many of you have already seen, is version 0.2.5.14. The exchanges have 0.2.5.14, but it’s not yet available to everyone else. Most people are currently running version 2.5.11.

All further updates (including 0.2.5.14) prior to the upgrade to 1.0.0.0 are optional. 1.0.0.0 will be the next mandatory upgrade. The next few updates are focused around adding additional experimental features and some performance optimizations. Upgrading from 0.2.5.11 to 1.0.0.0 should result in:

extra security features (on by default) added to RPC

some socket features work which makes the UI’s perform better

service related identifiers for which management recommendations/instructions/general information will be posted later on. — — node identifier — — routing identifier

ability to search for a node on the network via its identifier

a change to a more higher performing hashing algorithm (SHA56 most likely)

RPC calls to manage new features and identifiers and such

some other technical stuff including dependency, documentation, and configuration updates

minor bug fixes and performance improvements

This was directly communicated by Dylan (@Dolaned) and Griff recently via Reddit and can be seen here.

Sapphire Is Looking Great

Dylan (@Dolaned) and Nick (@zuc0001) have continued their awesome work on the Sapphire repo. Here are a couple of unpublished screenshots of the new Sapphire that you haven’t seen in Discord yet (note that these are not yet official).

Sapphire theme (color scheme) options.

The image above shows an option for the new light theme that Nick (@zuc0001) has been working on, and the image below is what the general overview looks like in the light theme.

Sapphire’s overview (color scheme of the light theme).

Aside from new themes, most of the devs’ focus over the past two weeks on Sapphire is removing a LOT of code from ANS because it is getting entirely rewritten. This is so the code base is almost at a point where we can start rebuilding the features, and will make adding pages easier in the future. Nick (@zuc0001) has stated that the entire app has nearly all been re-written at this point for a more optimized user and developer experience.