---
title: 2024-07-01 Waku Weekly
tags:
  - waku-updates
date: 2024-07-01
---

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

- [Store v3 - store synchronisation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/132)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] set lower max delivery attempts for outgoing messages https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5382

- [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 - 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
  - next:
    - [nwaku] Rate limit phase3: Some polishing and test cases needed to finish

- [PostgreSQL Maintenance](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/119)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] analyse a database blocking issue: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2838
  - next:
    - [nwaku] fix database blocking issue with solution detailed in  https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2838

## [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] small logging cli issue
    - [chat] testing private group chats https://github.com/status-im/status-cli-tests/pull/4

- [Review connection management strategy and back-off and fix long disconnection issues](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/177)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] investigating connectivity and discv5 issues
    - [chat] fix peerExchange to filter peers by shard https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5350/
    - [chat] filter peers used for circuit-relay based on shards https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1130
    - [chat] Dogfood lightClient by enabling peerExchange
  - next:
    - [chat] missing messages verification https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5281
    - [chat] store node query after sleep https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5422
    - [chat] investigate further peer connectivity issues by dogfooding
    - [chat] refactor peer-manager for lightClient
    - [chat] remove limit on connections when using relay

- [Tooling: filter and light push protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/178)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] lite-protocol-tester works on waku-simulator
    - [chat] configurable stress conditions
    - [chat] re-run some critical test for nicer logs for analysis
    - [chat] analysed run results
    - [chat] waku dogfooding telemetry https://github.com/status-im/telemetry/pull/20
  - next:
    - [chat] new run with analysis on Alberto's log analysis tool
    - [chat] run lite-protocol-tester on shards.staging

- [Reliability Protocol for Relay](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/184)
  - achieved:
    - [nwaku] started the implementation in nwaku - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2819
  - next:
    - [chat] spec the reliability protocol for relay

- [Reliability Protocol for Resource-Restricted Clients](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/186)
  - achieved:
    - [js-waku] continued with using pool approach for protocols https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2047
    - [js-waku] store v3 migration https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2036
  - next:
    - [js-waku] complete ongoing efforts
    - [js-waku] get back to offline state handling https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2024

- [Review MVDS usage and fail path](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/189)
  - achieved:
    - [chat] Improve MVDS: reset epoch for online users https://github.com/status-im/mvds/pull/5

## [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] Discovery on e2e reliability and bloom filters. Started working on a POC on a standalone repo.
  - next:
    - [research] move to go-waku and continue with 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:
    - [nwaku] analyse discv5 performance and possible issues https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2810
    - [nwaku] fixed issues forming mesh by DST team https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2780 https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2824
    - [nwaku] Added small enhancements to the peer manager https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2823, https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2831
    - [nwaku] Opened PR adding logs requested by DST for discv5 investigation https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2841 https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2811
    - [nwaku] Opened PR adding peer origin information to the /admin/v1/peers REST endpoint https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2848
  - next:
    - [nwaku] continue with discv5 and peer manager investigations
    - [nwaku] Implement a permanent customizable logging solution for nim-libp2p
    - [nwaku] deprecate named sharding

## [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] Various debugging and bug fixing, executing https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/168
  - next:
    - [research] Deliver 0.30.0 with RLNv2 in nwaku

- [Maturing RLN variables/parameters revision](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/205)
  - achieved:
    - [research] RLNv2 debugging, test plan, waku-simulator updates
  - next:
    - [research] RLNv2 release candidate testing

- [Provision RLN for light push clients PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/206)
  - achieved:
    - [research] continued testing of merged feature
  - next:
    - [research] deploy service to existing fleets and dogfood with js-waku

- [Pay for RLN provision first PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/207)
  - achieved:
    - [research] PR for incentivization PoC (without on-chain interaction yet)
  - next:
    - [research] add on-chain interaction to the PoC - txid lookup as proof of payment

## Other Work

### Enhancements

- achieved:
  - [chat] status-go: expose wakuext_enr 
  - [chat] use UTC format for geth.log timestamp 
  - [chat] use IP addresses instead of dns to store multiaddresses
  - [chat] waku enr decoder tool https://github.com/waku-org/enr-decoder/
  - [js-waku] remove relay dependency https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/pull/2040

### Bugs

- achieved:
  - [chat] do not write tcp port 0 and remove 100 chars length limit for multiaddresses
  - [chat] fix ctx not available when starting telemetry client
  - [nwaku] Mount Metadata in wakucanary https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2720
  - [nwaku] duplicate message forwarding to filter client https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2320
- next:
  - [nwaku] peer exchanges return nodes that no longer exist. - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2414