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Milestones

Start date	17 Feb 2020
Sprint 30 (2 weeks)	10 Feb 2020
Sprint 29 (2 weeks)	24 Feb 2020
Release	19 Mar 2020

Stakeholders

Name	Role	Reviewed?
Medha Parlikar	CTO
Mrinal Manohar	CEO

Development team

Program manager	Project Manager	Developer	Developer	Developer	SRE
Ashok Ranadive (Unlicensed)	Piotr Dziubecki	Michael Birch	Akosh Farkas	Henry Till	Tom Vasile

Marketing team

Marketing lead	Content owner
Kevin Watt	Former user (Deleted)

Release Overview

Simple Overview

With this release we complete the functionality required for Alpha TestNet- a working version of the Highway Protocol with honest validators. We will be preparing for our TestNet launch with 10 Validators.

Detailed Overview

Execution Engine Enhancements

Performance enhancements via 'turbo' mode
~~Support multiple Key Lengths for accounts~~
Documentation for AssemblyScript library.

Consensus & Node Features

Eras, Leaders, Efficient Fork Choice and fixed Rounds
Configurable Highway parameters
Era switch blocks, ballots and a revised Genesis process

EcoSystem:

~~AssemblyScript examples~~
Getting started with AssemblyScript
dApp Tutorials
dApp Developer guide
Deploy contracts from the browser to the network.

Test & Operations:

Infrastructure for TestNet Launch
Performance testing and tuning of protocol
STESTS testing platform for scalable Production Engineering

Tickets for this Release

Features/Stories

Defects Fixed

Metric for tracking the success:

What is special about this release?

This release completes the initial production implementation of The Highway protocol, and will support the launch of the Alpha TestNet launch of the CasperLabs blockchain protocol.

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.

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?

Gitter developer channel