Update Friday, Jan 17th, 2020
‘Boring and uneventful.’ Terrible review for your new Netflix series, but the highest praise you could possibly receive for your Hardfork, so well done all there!
I’ve been bashing away at smaller bugfixes and minor issues over the week, and it looks like we might be going for a small 3.0.1 wallet update fairly soon… nothing major and you only need to update if you’re one of those affected by the issues in the listed bugs.
I’ve also got work underway on a larger piece the cli-wallet mode. A bit of refactoring needed there to make sure the interactive mode works identically to a 3rd party application, followed by a tiny bit of glue to call all of the existing commands in the context of a command-line, followed by tons and tons of small fiddly things to ensure absolutely all of the commands work correctly and return errors where and when they should.
This process is basically putting together a minimal sample client application for the wallet APIs. It will be a bit of a slow process going through all the commands one-by-one and ensuring they all behave correctly in the command-line, but the payoff here is that each little fix to an error message here and the expected API flow there is another small improvement for all upstream 3rd party wallets.
Thinking a little bit about 3.1.0 features, I think the payment proof export and round 1 of the CLI mode should be more or less it… there was one other thing that came up but it’s not coming to mind, will fill it in later when I remember. However, there’s no longer a real need to keep the node and wallet release schedules in perfect sync, so I hope we’ll be able to achieve slightly shorter release cycles, particularly for non-breaking quality of life additions.
That’s all for now, enjoy V3 Grinning!