roadmap/content/waku/updates/2024-07-22.md

---
title: 2024-07-22 Waku Weekly
tags:
  - waku-updates
date: 2024-07-22
---

## [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] Proof of concept of store testing with waku-simulator
  - next:
    - [research] Storev3 test plan and integrating tools for testing
  - blockers:
    - [research] Some complexities around merging/testing, currently handled by nwaku team

- [DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/66)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] BW metrics per shard: implemented per shard metric collection [feat: Proper bandwidth metrics per shard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1945)
    - [nwaku] Added dashboard panels for relay per shard traffic
    - [nwaku] Added dashboard panels for non-relay protocols data traffic
    - [nwaku] Added dashboard panels for non-relay protocols request rates
    - [nwaku] Released [feat: Enforce service specific rate limits](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2032)
      - Added per peer filtering of high users
      - Load balancing compensation applied to token replenish
      - Filter service specific limits for ping and subscribe per peer

- [PostgreSQL Maintenance](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/119)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] Improved and merged Sonda - canary service to check liveness of store nodes
    - [nwaku] Merged store-v3 cursor fix [chore(archive): archive and drivers refactor](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2761)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] PostgreSQL query optimizations [chore: query performance in PostgreSQL by avoiding ordering in queries](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2902)
    - [nwaku] PostgreSQL enhance retention policy: [bug: retention policy does not work when postgres db is over loaded](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2890)
    - [nwaku] PostgreSQL enhance query performance [chore: improve postgres query performance](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2895)

## [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: flag to enable/disable missing message verification](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5497)

- [Tooling: filter and light push protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/178)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] added support for 2 lightpush peers to be used for better reliability [feat: support for lightpush to use more than 1 peer](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1158)
    - [chat] fix metadata protocol from disconnecting light-clients and only use clusterID and accept connections from lightclients [fix: for light node do not check for matching shards but only clusterID](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1154)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] Little enhancement for network connectivity, use bootstrap enr's to connect to any kind of network and detect shardings
    - [nwaku] Auto select service peers and use them randomly for testing on both sides.
    - [nwaku] run lite-protocol-tester on shards.staging

- [Reliability Protocol for Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/184)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] started local sqlite registry implementation [feat: enhance reliability thanks to StoreV3](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819)
    - [chat] config to enable/disable storev3 confirmations for sent messages [feat: flag to enable/disable sent message store query confirmations](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5493)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] carry on with implementation [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:
    - [js-waku] improved renewal of peers for Filter [feat(filter): peer/subscription renewal with recurring Filter pings](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2052)
    - [js-waku] check for missing messages from Filter subscriptions [feat: validate messages for individual filter nodes & perform renewals](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2057)
    - [js-waku] peer renewal and keep alive improvements [feat: fix peer renewal, change Filter keep alive](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2065)
  - next:
    - [nwaku] Implementing: [feat: Enhance lightpush protocol error handling](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2722)

- [Review MVDS usage and fail path](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/189)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] status messages need for e2e reliability collected
    - [chat] [fix_: delivered message should not send envelope sent signal](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5502)

## [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] implemented ACK handling, request missing messages, resend message
  - next:
    - [research] comprehensive tests for the poc

## [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:
    - [research] review of discv5 both spec and nim implementation
    - [research] compiled audit of discovery status quo and potential future strategies
    - [nwaku] Creating versions for DST team to test discv5 and message reliability
    - [nwaku] Proposing new solution to log received message info from nim-libp2p. Created custom version for DST team to use [chore: creating branch to test Waku's received messages](https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1128)
    - [nwaku] Started investigating and implementing improvements for connection management of bootstrap only nodes [bug: Node accepts connections when configured for just discovery](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2892)
    - [nwaku] Improved logging [chore: improving logging under debugDiscv5 flag](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2899), [chore: logging content topic of spam messages](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2906)
    - [nwaku] Investigated at depth discv5’s implementation [bug: discv5 not returning enough peers](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2810)
  - next:
    - [research] review other discovery methods and state of implementation in nim
    - [research] review metrics collected and add more if needed
    - [research] implement identified discv5 improvement strategies
    - [nwaku] Get feedback on nim-libp2p’s logging solution
    - [nwaku] Refactor code now that named shading is removed, and deprecate pubsub-topic configuration
    - [nwaku] Continue discussing and analyzing discv5's performance and possible improvements

## Other Work

### Enhancements

- achieved:
  - [chat] [chore: rename shards.staging to status.staging](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5500)
  - [chat] [chore: rename shards.staging to status.staging](https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/15510)
  - [chat] [chore: bump go-libp2p](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1155)
  - [chat] enable metadata protocol regardless of cluster-ID used
  - [js-waku] [chore: enforce access modifiers](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2068)
  - [js-waku] [chore: bump @waku peer dependencies](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2062)
  - [js-waku] improve network options handling [chore: throw if more than one network config is passed](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2056)
- next:
  - [nwaku] deploy release v0.31.0 [Prepare release 0.31.0](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2909)

### Bugs

- achieved:
  - [chat] investigation of slowness to retrieve messages in storenode message counter
  - [nwaku] Build nwaku image for Windows - [feature: support Windows 11](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2473)
- next:
  - [nwaku] Manage stale peers dynamically with better reliability [fix: peer-exchange issue](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2889#event-13503654152)
  - [nwaku] [bug: failed to retrieve peer info via peer exchange protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2875)