roadmap/content/waku/updates/2024-06-24.md

---
title: 2024-06-24 Waku Weekly
tags:
  - waku-updates
date: 2024-06-24
---

## [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:
    - [nwaku] PR bug fixes
    - [chat] hash based query for outgoing messages https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5217
  - blockers:
    - [chat] awaiting reviews
    - [chat] unable to reproduce CI failures

- [Store v3 - store synchronisation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/132)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] waku-simulator testing
    - [chat] Dogfooding and fixes for routine that checks for missing messages https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5281
  - blockers:
    - [chat] awaiting reviews
    - [chat] unable to reproduce CI failures

- [DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/66)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] Rate limit phase3: implemented per peer request rate checks
    - [nwaku] BW metrics per shard: implemented per shard metric collection
  - next:
    - [nwaku] Rate limit phase3: Some polishing and test cases needed to finish
    - [nwaku] Rate limit phase3: add rate limit metrics to dashboard
    - [nwaku] BW metrics per shard: needs some tests and add section onto dashboard

- [PostgreSQL Maintenance](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/119)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] enhance partition creation: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2783
    - [nwaku] validate that time retention policy works well: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2807

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

- [Enable testing of direct messages](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/176)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] set up nightly tests & 1:1 messages tests https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/1
    - [chat] set up nightly tests for contact requests https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/3
    - [chat] CLI bugs and improvements for usage in nightly tests https://github.com/status-im/status-go/issues/5266
  - next:
    - [chat] set up nightly tests for group chats and community join requests
    - [chat] investigate remaining tests failing

- [Review connection management strategy and back-off and fix long disconnection issues](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/177)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] Pause peer connector if node is offline https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5340, https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1125
    - [chat] Fix usage of context for DiscV5 https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5347
    - [chat] Fix in status-go to filter peers by shard
    - [chat] Dogfood light client with peer exchange enabled
  - next:
    - [chat] Investigate / fix DiscV5 not finding valid peers in shards.test fleet
    - [chat] make filter working along with peer exchange and debug connectivity issues with peers returned via peerExchange

- [Tooling: filter and light push protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/178)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] lite-protocol-tester works on waku-simulator
    - [nwaku] configurable stress conditions
    - [nwaku] intensive stress test had been ran (45 nodes (relay + service nodes) + multiple publisher light client and a filter client receiver)
    - [nwaku] ran with different conditions
    - [nwaku] in co-op with Alberto analyzing topology and message flows
  - next:
    - [nwaku] exclude docker limitations from the seen failed message deliveries

- [Telemetry: direct message reliability](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/182)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] implemented two different ways to log received message information. One based on libp2p observers https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2800 which we won't use in practice. And one by adding the logs in a new nim-libp2p branch https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1128

- [Reliability Protocol for Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/184)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] started to look at the current status-go implementation
  - next:
    - [nwaku] carry on with the implementation in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819

- [Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/186)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] Improve filter subscription management in LightClient: various fixes wrt filter subscriptions and making lightNode work with peerExchange enabled https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/4665
    - [chat] dogfooding light client in desktop
    - [chat] fixed issue found while dogfooing, remove stale subs and update ping interval https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1119
    - [js-waku] improved peer management for light push protocol https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2002
    - [js-waku] worked on updating js-waku to store v3 https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2029
    - [js-waku] improving offline recoverability for Filter https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2024
  - next:
    - [js-waku] continue with moving to store v3 https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2029
    - [js-waku] continue with offline recoverability for Filter https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2024

- [User apps for large scale dogfooding](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/188)
  - achieved:
    - [js-waku] settled on the base implementation of dogfooding app https://github.com/waku-org/lab.waku.org/pull/68
  - next:
    - [js-waku] provide front end for dogfooding app
    - [js-waku] provide basic telemetry framework

- [Review MVDS usage and fail path](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/189)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] draft changes for reset MVDS epoch for online peers https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5349
  - next:
    - [chat] continue MVDS review https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/33

## [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:
    - [nwaku] continued gathering wide input on e2e reliability proposal: [https://forum.vac.dev/t/end-to-end-reliability-for-scalable-distributed-logs/293/](https://forum.vac.dev/t/end-to-end-reliability-for-scalable-distributed-logs/293/13)
    - [nwaku] performed basic calculations to understand mathematical properties of proposed protocol, probabilistic model
  - next:
    - [nwaku] stakeholders sync on next steps
    - [nwaku] set scope for POC implementation

## [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] start testing and investigating discv5 performance and possible issues https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2810
    - [nwaku] started deep review of peer manager logic opened PR with small fix to be able to update peers' ENRs https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2818
    - [nwaku] reproduced with DST team issues forming stable mesh https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2780 and analyzed logs. Found that connections aren't being answered and started investigating a prospective problematic place in the code.
  - next:
    - [nwaku] continue with discv5 and peer manager investigations
    - [nwaku] continue investigating issuer forming a stable mesh

## [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] Published The Waku Simulator book: https://waku-org.github.io/waku-simulator/. It explains how to use waku-simulator to test different scenarios.
    - [research] completed RLNv2 test plan, waku-simulator updates
  - next:
    - [research] Integrate waku spammer: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2821
    - [research] Assist with rlnv2 testing.
    - [research] execute RLNv2 test plan

## Other Work

### Research
- [[Deliverable] Store Incentivisation (first iteration/POC)](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/139)
  - [research] achieved: opened a PR for a PoC incentivization testing: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2816
  - [research] next: start outlining a minimal specification for RLN-as-a-service

### Reliability
- achieved
  - [chat] Increase store query pagesize https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5341
  - [chat] Fix peer counter for statsu-desktop https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5348
  - [chat] Change order of rpc text input https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/pull/15169