roadmap/content/waku/updates/2024-07-08.md

---
title: 2024-07-08 Waku Weekly
tags:
  - waku-updates
date: 2024-07-08
---

## [Milestone - Store Service Upgrade](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/28)

- [Store v3-beta - Message Hashes](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/131)
  - achieved:
    - [research] take up reported bugfixes after afk; continue with service rollout
    - [chat] tuning store hash query to shorten the confirmation time of outgoing messages [Reset MVDS epoch after peer is online](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5349)
  - next:
    - [research] start with storev3 benchmarking test plan

- [DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/66)
  - achieved:
    - [[Epic: nwaku] Node Bandwidth Management Features](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/117)
      - BW metrics per shard: implemented per shard metric collection - [feat: Proper bandwidth metrics per shard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1945)
      - Added dashboard panels for relay per shard traffic
      - Added dashboard panels for non-relay protocols data traffic
      - Added dashboard panels for non-relay protocols request rates
    - [nwaku] [feat: Enforce service specific rate limits](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2032)
      - Finalizing last phase of the feature:
        - Added per peer filtering of high users
        - Filter service specific limits for ping and subscribe per peer
  - next:
    - [[Epic: nwaku] Node Bandwidth Management Features](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/117)
      - Add distinction between gross/net inbound traffic of shards.
    - [nwaku] [feat: Enforce service specific rate limits](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2032)
      - finish testing, add more unit tests

- [PostgreSQL Maintenance](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/119)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] new issue to create sonda tool, a canary for store services: [chore: create sonda tool](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2869)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] start implementation of sonda tool

## [Milestone - Direct Message Reliability](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/29)

- [Review connection management strategy and back-off and fix long disconnection issues](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/177)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] [feat: filter peers stored in cache by cluster-id in peer-exchange](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1139)
    - [chat] [feat: expose router and mesh peers to obtain list of peers in mesh](https://github.com/waku-org/go-libp2p-pubsub/pull/1)
    - [chat] improve relay peer connectivity and refactor peerManager to support lightMode [feat: modify peer-manager to consider relay target peers](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1135)
    - [chat] enable peerExchange in relay for better peer discovery [chore: enable pxClient in relay and increase relay peer connections](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5411)
    - [chat] fix peerExchange peer source and enable peerExchange in lightClient [fix: enable pxclient and filter peerExchange peers returned](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5350)
    - [chat] query store node when back from sleep: [missing communityRequestToJoin message](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/issues/5412)
    - [chat] IMO of what to do regarding receive reliability: [Receive message reliability for Status desktop](https://forum.vac.dev/t/receive-message-reliability-for-status-desktop/302)
  - next:
    - [chat] expose rpc methods to obtain list of peers by topic, and list of peers in mesh
    - [chat] lightClient topic health reporting and peer connectivity improvements
    - [chat] when back online only request from store node since last time not 24 hours
    - [chat] investigate connection management for outgoing messages

- [Tooling: filter and light push protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/178)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] optimize filter subscriptions by aggregating them [feat: optimize filter subs](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1144) and [feat: aggregate filter subscriptions to do bulk subs with peer](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5440)
    - [nwaku] stress test on waku-simulator
  - next:
    - [nwaku] add rln support
    - [nwaku] run lite-protocol-tester on shards.staging

- [Reliability Protocol for Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/184)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] draft reliability for relay protocol spec [feat: reliability for relay protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/23)
    - [nwaku] carry on with the implementation in nwaku - [feat: enhance reliability thanks to StoreV3](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819)
  - next:
    - [chat] continue with the reliability protocol
    - [nwaku] submit first PR in nwaku - [feat: enhance reliability thanks to StoreV3](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819)

- [Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/186)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] Accepted new lightpush protocol definition with detailed fail case support - [Enhance light push protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/93)
    - [js-waku] filter uses dynamic peer management [feat(filter): peer/subscription renewal with recurring Filter pings](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2052)
    - [js-waku] reliability with renewals due to offline state [feat!: improve offline state handling for Filter subscription](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2049)
    - [js-waku] reliability RFC [Add "req-res protocol reliability" spec](https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/18)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] Implement: [feat: Enhance lightpush protocol error handling](https://github.com/)waku-org/nwaku/issues/2722
    - [js-waku] reliability RFC [Add "req-res protocol reliability" spec](https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/18)
    - [js-waku] reliability with renewals due to offline state [feat!: improve offline state handling for Filter subscription](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2049)

- [User apps for large scale dogfooding](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/188)
  - achieved:
    - [js-waku] minor improvements to [feat: add first version of dogfooding app](https://github.com/waku-org/lab.waku.org/pull/68) and getting unblocked with latest nwaku release

- [Review MVDS usage and fail path](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/189)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] reset MVDS epoch after peer is back online [Reset MVDS epoch after peer is online](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5349)
  - next:
    - [chat] continue mvds review

## [Milestone - End-to-end reliability protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/30)

- [End-to-end reliability protocol - PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/193)
  - achieved:
    - [research] started exploring POC in go-waku as an example application
    - [research] researched Vac’s de-MLS protocol for possible integration
  - next:
    - [research] continue with the POC starting with a minimal working version first
  - blockers:

## [Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/31)

- [Sharding peer management and discovery hardening](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/172)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] added origin of peers in admin rest endpoint as per request, to debug and further understand discovery performance [chore: adding origin to peers admin endpoint](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2848)
    - [nwaku] discussed with nim-libp2p team and tested a version of logging errors on publish to understand how often messages are not sent without returning errors

## [Milestone - Scale 1:1 chat messages PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/35)

- [RLNv2 in nwaku](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/204)
  - achieved:
    - [research] RLNv2 config for the Waku Network: [chore: add TWN parameters for RLNv2](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2843)
    - [research] bug fix in RLN, vulnerability: [fix(rln): nullifierlog vulnerability](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2855)
  - next:
    - [research] assist to deploy 0.30.0 release and integrate it in The Waku Network

- [Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/205)
  - achieved:
    - [research] continuing the execution of RLN in resource-restricted network: [[Epic: Dogfooding] Deliver RLN v2 + RLN in resource-restricted to The Waku Network](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/168)
    - [research] simulations using the waku simulator for different purposes
    - [research] expanded RLNv2 testing, assisted with simulating and debugging vulnerabilities
  - next:
    - [research] assist to deploy 0.30.0 release and integrate it in The Waku Network
    - [research] complete execution of RLNv2 test scenarios

- [Pay for RLN provision first PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/207)
  - achieved:
    - [research] added chain interaction to incentivization POC
  - next:
    - [research] draft a specification for RLN mainnet deployment

## Other Work

## Enhancements

- achieved:
  - [nwaku] deployment of release v0.30.1, which adds RLNv2
  - [js-waku] prepare for next release
- next:
  - [js-waku] release last reliability improvements

## Bugs

- achieved:
  - [chat] [fix: panic due to enr having more than 300 bytes](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1140)
  - [chat] [fix: ignore ws from circuit relay addresses, and allow non multiaddresses in multiaddrs ENR key](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1141)
  - [chat] [fix failing wakuv2 tests](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5444)
  - [nwaku] [bug: build error on new AMD cpu's](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2560)
  - [nwaku] Various bug fixes:
    - From chat team:
      - [bug: timestamp should be set to 0 if not provided in REST API](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2625)
      - [bug: Store REST API returns invalid digest](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2615)
    - From Vac-QA:
      - [bug: Some PeerStore metadata is not filled in](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2591)
      - [bug: PeerInfo instance affects listed protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2590)
      - [bug: Lightpush's publish type error](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2253)
      - [bug: Relay publish returns Failed to publish: timedout when a peer filter node is disconnected](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2319)
      - [bug: Test failure on test_all](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2304)
      - [handle rln_msg_limit issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2822)
    - Nim 2.0 readiness:
      - [nwaku] [bug: incorrect import paths pointing outside the repository](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2845)
- next:
  - [nwaku] [peer exchange returns nodes that no longer exist](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2414)