Weekly Nano Update: 8/6/2018

A new milestone enters testing, London meetup, and more!

Join Colin and George this Wednesday, August 8th @ The Cat & Mutton in London!

Hello everyone, and happy Monday!

We have a big week ahead of us as the final checks on v15 are coming together. The team is hard at work preparing a new test branch that will hit the beta network this week!

As many of you may know, v14.3 was originally slated to hit last week, but as we got further into development and testing, the call was made to push those changes into the v15 milestone release. Development continues on Lazy Bootstrapping, Vote by Hash, and Vote stapling — which all should be appearing in upcoming versions.

The release notes are still be finalized for v15, but the Milestone Tracker for this release has a flurry of activity:

Vote synchronization improvements are included in this version, including a reduction in the announcement minimum requirement (PR #996), and improvements in how nodes send confirmation requests (PR #999).

Hash only voting is being prioritized for this release (PR #1025), which will also allow them to be batched, optimizing bandwidth.

Changes to voting quorum will allow us to remove the vote re-announcement requirement, reducing vote traffic from repeating (PR #992).

Several other optimizations and bug fixes are also included. If you’d like to follow along, we’ve made it incredibly easy to track the progress of each milestone release on our GitHub!