2024-08-26 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Store Service Upgrade §

• Store v3-beta - Message Hashes

  • achieved:
    • [research] run benchmark tests on isolated store DB
  • next:
    • [research] summarise findings

• PostgreSQL Maintenance

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Run “ANALYZE messages” more regularly chore: ANALYZE messages query should be performed regularly

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Relay

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] new PR with reliability approach chore: delivery monitor for store v3 reliability protocol
    • [chat] create sender api for publishing messages and sent check chore: refactor sender api

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] Filter API improvements feat(filter)!: new simpler filter API
    • [js-waku] browser network state handling leftover feat: offline state recovery for Filter subscription
  • next:
    • [js-waku] in progress on fixes for filter subscriptions bug: filter sdk does not dial newly added peers
    • [js-waku] in progress on improvements for peer selection feat: peer selection for protocols
    • [js-waku] in progress on missing messages verification feat: message verification and retry
  • blockers:
    • [js-waku] light push improvements, waiting for nwaku feat: migrate to latest LightPush version

• User apps for large scale dogfooding

  • achieved:
    • [js-waku] debugged and minor fixes, collected data
  • next:
    • [js-waku] setup basic dashboards
    • [js-waku] improve data collection

• Review MVDS usage and fail path

  • achieved:
    • [chat] spec mvds usage in status feat: status mvds usage
    • [chat] mvds usage in request to join community message feat_: request to join community message use mvds

Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol §

• End-to-end reliability protocol - PoC
  • achieved:
    • [research] merged and launched e2e reliability POC dogfooding
  • next:
    • [research] document and address POC dogfooding findings, start planning for Status integration

Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards §

• Sharding peer management and discovery hardening
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Renamed NsPubsubTopic to RelayShard as a step towards switching from pubsub topics to shards chore: rename NsPubsubTopic
    • [nwaku] Deprecated protected topics and added the feature of protected shards as a replacement chore: deprecating protected topics in favor of protected shards
    • [chat] shard aware peer store pruning feat: shard aware pruning of peer store
    • [chat] filter peer exchange peers served feat: shard based filtering in peer exchange

Milestone - Scale 1:1 chat messages PoC §

• Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision

  • achieved:
    • [research] RLN contract mainnet spec merged Add WAKU2-RLN-CONTRACT spec for mainnet deployment
  • next:
    • [research] draft Vac research forum post on implementation steps for incentivization; discuss RLN mainnet contract development to iterate on the spec

• Provision RLN for light push clients PoC

  • achieved:
    • [research] go-waku-light now integrated end to end with TWN: Update TWN Sepolia contract + chat
  • next:
    • [research] Start planning rlnv2 itegration in 1on1 chats

Other Work §

Enhancements §

• achieved:
  • [js-waku] make static and auto sharding default feat!: deprecate named pubsub topics and use static/auto sharding
  • [js-waku] improve timestamp compatibility chore(message-hash): use timestamp in nanoseconds instead of milliseconds
  • [js-waku] working on unit test coverage for core implementation feat: unit testing @waku/core
  • [nwaku] Fixed duplicate logging key bug fix: avoid using the msg key in chronicles
  • [nwaku] Updated dependencies for release v0.32.0 chore: updating dependencies for release 0.32.0
  • [nwaku] Improved logging needed for DST simulations by using the new nim-libp2p feature of onValidated observers chore: logging received message info via onValidated observer
  • [nwaku] libwaku retrieves ENR chore: libwaku retrieve my enr and adapt golang example

Bugs §

• achieved:
  • [chat] fix use UTC time in logs chore: use utc time in logs to avoid user location getting disclosed
  • [chat] status-go: fix flaky waku2 test chore: fix TestBasicWakuV2