Brief Summary

• This week we were busy defining Q1 OKRs, so we don’t have many updates;
• Nearcore v1.24.0 Testnet release is planned for Jan 17, 2022;
• We are steadily getting rid of simulation tests in favor of workspaces-rs;
• We investigated OOM issue on Testnet and improved memory usage;

Results

• Check out the notes from the recent NEAR Validator Advisory Board Meeting;
• Node Experience made nearcore start faster and fixed inflation test;
• Checkout Node Experience Q1 2022 issue board;
• Core Tools are gradually switching examples from simulation tests to workspaces-rs;
• Core Tools refactored workspaces-rs and started working on fast-forwarding;
• Frontier Tools transformed JS SDK into enclave, but without separate state, cross-contract calls, storage charges;
• Core Protocol reduced memory usage by improving chunk validation;
• Core Protocol did lots of cleanup of network and chain code (30-40 PRs);

Full Reports

• Node Experience;
• Core Tools;
• Frontier Tools;
• Core Protocol.