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Document status

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Milestones

Start date

 

Release branch cut

 

Testnet upgrade

Stage Mainnet upgrade (1.1.0)

Stakeholders

Medha Parlikar

CTO

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Mrinal Manohar

CEO

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Development team

Program manager

Project Manager

Engineering Lead

SRE

Medha Parlikar

Piotr Dziubecki

Ed Hastings (Deactivated)

Joe Sacher


Marketing team

Marketing lead

Content owner

Matthew Iles (Unlicensed)

Everett M (Unlicensed)


Release Overview

Simple Overview

Release 21.04 marks the first Mainnet version upgrade of the Casper protocol.

The most important thing is to launch Mainnet and keep it up and stable.

Detailed Overview

This release will focus on Performance & Sustainability.

The goal is to patch Mainnet with the first round of sustainability features:

  • Reduce Protocol State Memory Consumption

  • Networking Robustness

Protocol Features:

  • Make it very hard to equivocate in Casper node.

Node

  • Network stability

  • Joiner reliability

Operations & Monitoring

  • Transition to casper-network

  • Implement production monitoring and production lead process for Mainnet.

  • Enhance Nightly Infra & tests - better simulate the live network.

  • Tutorials and videos on metrics and monitoring

Ecosystem

  • Update documentation at docs.casperlabs.io

  • JavaScript SDK enhancements

  • Signer enhancements

  • Smart Contract DSL enhancements

  • Developer experience courses

  • Video tutorial content for the following

    • setting up a node

Tickets for this Release

Features

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Key Node Deliverables

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Key Contract Runtime Deliverables

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Ecosystem Product Updates

  • Javascript SDK

  • Enhancements to Signer

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SRE

  • Network Health Monitoring

Documentation

  • Updated dApp developer guide for Rust Node

Defects Fixed

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Metric for tracking the success:

What is special about this release?

For dApp Developers 

For Node Operators

Are we doing something differently? If so, why are we doing it this way?


Before these features were available, what were developers able to do?


After these features launch, what will developers be able (and not able) to do?

Description of release packaging

Release packaging will include:

  • Debian package 

  • Docker image

  • Brew packages

  • RPM package

  • tar.gz file

Where do developers go to learn more and get started?

  • At release, links to installation packages and relevant documentation is available at 

  • Packages available at: http://github.com/CasperLabs/releases

  • Docs available on GitHub. http://docs.casperlabs.io

Where will bugs be filed?

Github - part of the public release.

Where do developers go for support? What is the SLA? Who is on point?