Update Friday, Oct 19th 2018
Going to be very quick this week as just about everything this week was to do with the launch of testnet4. No large-ish chunks of work to note, because most of the week was spent testing, fiddling around, committing fixes, merging, committing fixes to fixes, making/cleaning up messes, and all of the other things you do when you’re trying to release a new iteration of something. Though T4 is probably known far and wide now, a list of changes is in the announcement link above.
All of the fiddling about with mining code has made me realise I very much do want to clean up/rewrite most of cuckoo-miner before mainnet, especially given all the PoW tweaking that still needs to happen. Will be turning my attention to that next, and would like to get cuckoo-miner to a state where it launches the minimal number of threads required and needs minimal tweaking of @tromp’s solvers upstream to get them integrated into Grin-miner when they change. This should lessen the instances of odd segfaulting behaviour, and hopefully make it far easier to track down issues when they do occur.
But for now, T4 out, it’s Friday, and it’s time for a celebration. I dedicate this particular vodka-night to T4.