--- 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] tunning store hash query to shorten the confirmation time of outgoing messages 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 - 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 - Separate 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: 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 https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1135 - [chat] enable peerExchange in relay for better peer discovery https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5411 - [chat] fix peerExchange peer source and enable peerExchange in lightClient https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5350 - [chat] query store node when back from sleep: https://github.com/status-im/status-go/issues/5412 - [chat] IMO of what to do regarding receive reliability: 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 https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1144 and 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 https://github.com/waku-org/specs/pull/23 - [nwaku] carry on with the implementation in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819 - next: - [chat] continue with the reliability protocol - [nwaku] submit first PR 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: - [nwaku] Accepted new lightpush protocol definition with detailed fail case support - https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/93 - next: - [nwaku] Implement: 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] reset MVDS epoch after peer is back 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 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: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2843 - [research] bug fix in RLN, 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: 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 RLN_v2 ## 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] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2625 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2615 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2591 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2590 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2253 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2319 - [nwaku] https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2304 - [nwaku] refactor relative code to absolute: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2845 (not merged, need to wait till v0.30.0) - [nwaku] handle rln_msg_limit issue : https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2822 - next: - [nwaku] peer exchange returns nodes that no longer exist. - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2414