Overview

While February may be the shortest month of the year, it was certainly not the quietest. The testnet for Bromine, our first hard fork since the launch of the QRL mainnet, is now live! There is an entire blog dedicated to engaging with testnet here. In the world of Quantum Computing, IBM has been betting big on quantum cloud services, and D-Wave is getting into the cloud space by announcing Leap 2, a cloud service that allows users to access a D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer.

After delaying the codefreeze initially scheduled for the 10th, we froze our code on February 21st, a new testnet was released on February 29th, and a test hard fork will occur at block height 10500, roughly the 7th of March. A release date for the actual hard fork will be announced once that is successfully completed. If there are issues, testnet will continue to run test hard forks until everything is stable. As always, we are committed to security and stability above all other concerns.

Development

Credit: Discord user snannerb

qrandomx : Fix for pip3 install, by adding deps/RandomX into distribution package

: Fix for pip3 install, by adding deps/RandomX into distribution package integration_tests : Fixed location of genesis.yml for fork_recovery

: Fixed location of genesis.yml for fork_recovery qrl-docker-ci : Fix yaml in circleci config

: Fix yaml in circleci config qrllib : Pullrequests/ademcan/master

Pullrequests/ademcan/master qrl-cli : Bump handlebars from 4.1.2 to 4.7.3

Bump handlebars from 4.1.2 to 4.7.3 qrl-wallet : Add pre-HF testnet node hash

: Add pre-HF testnet node hash integration_tests: Updated docker container to qrl-docker-ci

Bromine Hard Fork Testnet is Live!