Brief Summary

• JavaScript SDK is ready for intial testing and community feedback!
• Docs 3.0 development section is ready for community feedback!
• Storage statistics a re enabled for nodes assisting in performance improvements.
• Breaking change introduced in near-lake v0.3.0 release.

Results

• Node Team:

  • Disabled validators produced counters during sync to improve node performance.
  • Fixed protocol upgrade tests that were failing due to a version increase limitation edge case. This fix allows for bumping the protcol version 1 more than the release client in testnet.
  • Improved error message when setting a limit of the number of open files.

• Infrastructure Team:

  • Added block rate alerts for NEAR Lake.
  • GCP firewall audit complete with more restrictive rules added for incoming traffic.
  • Lambda function created for validator log.

• Developer Tools:

  • near-sdk-js
    • Made improvements to allow recursive call and view methods.
    • Fixed cross-conteract call error with writing to storage after jsvm_call.
    • Updated several APIs to return more human readable numbers rather than BigUnit64.
  • workspace-rs
    • Released 0.3.0 which added betanet support and updated protocol changes for sandbox.
    • Added error types for more meaningful error handling.
    • raw_bytes API created to expose call execution details. Discussion here.
    • Added a check to see if sandbox is already running before starting.
  • jsonrpc-client
    • added logging to allow inspection of req/res payloads.
    • RPC error handler reworked to ease discrepancies with ownership
  • near-sdk-rs
    • pre.9 released containing a bug fix and optimization for those who will need sim tests before they break with cross-contract call API change.

• Developer Console:

  • Roadmap tickets created in Jira.
  • Alerts phase 1 product spec complete.
  • Users can now eject a tutorial upon completion and turn it into a full project.
  • Project selection refactored amd access key rotation bug fixed.

• Data Platform:

  • near-lake-framework v0.3.0 released
    • Breaking change in LakeConfig as they’ve removed s3_endpoint and added s3_config.
    • Added LakeConfigBuilder for creating configs
    • Allows ability to provide custom AWS SDK S3 config
    • All examples are updated.

• Explorer Team:

  • New design is decided! Check it out here

Call for Action

• Docs 3.0 pre-release is ready for feedback! Please share your comments, suggestions, and ideas here!
• Test out near-sdk-js and leave us some feedback here.

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Full Reports

• Node
• Infrastructure
• Developer Tools
• Developer Console
• Data Platform
• Explorer

Well Done! Definitely loving the new design of NEAR Explorer!

Love these updates. Fantastic work