2025-01-13 Waku Weekly

Milestone - Direct Message Reliability §

• Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients
  • achieved:
    • [chat] improve light client reliability in satus mobile with improvements - https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5964
    • [chat] implemented and tested a workaround for light mode network change scenario where filter stops working on switching from wifi to cellular https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1270 and https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6232
  • next:
    • [nwaku] lightpush protocol v2. libp2p extension is under development Enhance lightpush protocol error handling
    • [js-waku] re-iterate on filter subscription management

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop §

• Nwaku in Status Desktop

  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Connection change event
    • [nwaku] Progress in waku-go-bindings
      • Integrate topic heal change event
      • Add rate limit config
      • Add protected shards
      • Integrate connection change event

• Nwaku on Windows

  • next: [nwaku] Remaining Windows support

Milestone: Nwaku in Status Mobile §

• Nwaku in Status Mobile
  • achieved:
    • [nwaku] Run status-go on android simulator with nwaku

Milestone: Scale one-to-one chats and app protocols §

• Survey impact of message rate and size limit #277

  • achieved: [chat] bump up status-go for custom rate limit, https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6233

• Test device pairing and syncing

  • achieved: [chat] review the backup and sync story in status, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyVIg5ZaVSlKWZRHSLzSMCMGJsbprkWUfEqCUJKma8w/edit?gid=507125679#gid=507125679

Maintenance H1 2025 §

• achieved:
  • [nwaku] Libwaku tweaks
  • [nwaku] Toy chat fix, Atoma needed it
  • [js-waku] Improve compatibility with 3rd party package managers
  • [js-waku] Fix access to environment variables
• next:
  • [nwaku] js-waku vs nwaku interoperability test stabilization
  • [nwaku] Capping mechanism for relay and service connections
  • [nwaku] Enhanced Epoch Monitoring
  • [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun)
    • filter service node creates a new stream for every single message
    • filter not accepting more subscriptions under moderate usage
  • [nwaku] RLN fails to reset at epoch limit
  • [chat] fix filter issue observed in go-waku master https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1267