November was exciting for the world of Sia, with tons of new work being done and features being merged for the upcoming version 1.4.0. We also had a big holiday — Thanksgiving — here in the US, and some team members have been in and out on vacation. Because of that, this update will be a bit shorter than the standard.

We’re incredibly excited about the progress we’ve made in 2018, and having some time to reflect, spend time with family, and fill up on food has given us a great push to close the year out.

In this update

Advent of Code Developer’s Corner Sia v1.3.7 — the hardfork The exchange situation

Advent of Code

Are you code savvy? If so, join the private Sia leaderboard for the Advent of Code! Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

There’s a new puzzle each day from December 1st through Christmas. Whether you want to compete with your fellow Sia enthusiasts on time or just sharpen your skills, join the private leaderboard to get in on the fun. Use code 30280–93df612d .

Updates from the…

Over the past two months, four Nebulous repos were updated. 47 issues were closed, 71 were created, and 47 pieces of code were added to the core codebase. We have a snapshot of updates here, but tbenz’ and hakkane’s official updates can be found weekly in the #announcements channel in Discord.

Notable features

Sia can communicate only with peers that have already updated to 1.3.7.

The hostdb API was updated.

Bug fix – the wallet could lag behind the real block height the whole client is synced to.

Hosts can be whitelisted and blacklisted.

The ability to overwrite an existing file when uploading.

Enable partial downloads to be validated through Merkle range proofs.

Improvements to the upload speeds of renters with multiple TB of data being stored.

We’ve added a new board to GitLab to track our development tasks by Module. Many of the issues need descriptions still so if you find one that seems interesting please reach out and we can prioritize updating that issue’s description. For anyone looking to contribute please check it out and let others know.

A full list of updates can be found on GitLab. Just click on the version number to get the release notes for each update.

Sia v.1.3.7 — the hardfork

The hardfork was addressed at length in last month’s update, so I won’t belabor the point here. I’ll just say that the network hardforked at block 179,000, everything was a success, and if you have any questions please send us an email.

The Exchange Situation

The List

Here’s the current list of exchanges that support Siacoin. I keep this up to date, but if you know of any additions or removals please let me know.

It’s time to…

December should bring us release candidates for 1.4.0, the next biggest update for the Sia network. There’s also another couple surprises in store that I hope we can share, so stay tuned.

Steve