SC ‘s Head of Support; Steve Funk: Sia dev update for the week of December 2

2 Nebulous repo were updated. 36 issues were created, 8 were closed. 14 MRs were merged.

GitLab user starius, ChrisSchinnerl, eddiewang, MSevey and lukechampine had code contributions merged into Sia.

Luke made progress on the new RPC protocol, used for host-renter communications:

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3345

And he laid the foundation for partial downloads:

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3348

Luke also corrected a bug related to the accountability of hosts. Now the wallet reflects the resolution of a file contract, and its payout, at the correct block height:

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3307

Chris finished the snapshot method of the new SiaFiles. This allows for faster management of all the features for renters in 1.4:

https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3336

Chris also completed the bandwidth limiter for the gateway module that was mentioned in last week’s update.

David announced the roadmap of features for the upcoming 1.4.0 version, codenamed “Draco”, including:

1.4.0 – the ability of renters to fully recover their data from backups they hold of the Sia metadata

1.4.1 – partial downloads

1.4.2 – on-chain backups and data recovery from the seed

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