This Month in Forest - December 2024

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This Month in Forest 🌲

Welcome to the December edition of This Month in Forest! ☃️

Highlights

🦵 NV25 upgrade... not yet!

It was supposed to be a Teep, but we did a Feint! No worries, the follow-up strike will be even better!

The NV25 upgrade was scheduled for December 16th but was postponed due to F3 performance concerns. The upgrade will be rescheduled. Read more about it here.

If you upgraded your calibnet node to the NV25 version (v0.23.0 or v0.23.1), please upgrade to the latest version (v0.23.2) to avoid any issues. Instructions can be found here.

Development

⚙️ No more out of sync

We fixed an ancient bug that caused Forest to temporarily drift out of sync with the network and slow down. What does it mean? Forest got a little bit faster! 🚀

💧 Forest Faucet

We are working on a new, shiny faucet. It's written in Rust 🦀 and is serverless! You can track the development here and take a sneak peek at the deployment here. Yes, it's already live and even drips mainnet FIL! Note that the faucet is still in development and might not work as expected. Please report any issues you encounter! 🛠️

♻️ Forest GC

Garbage collection is back on the table and enabled by default! This feature will help to keep the Forest node running smoothly by cleaning up old data that is no longer needed. If you have a long-running node, you might soon notice a big disk usage reduction! Be sure to update to the latest Forest version to take advantage of this feature.

☑️ RPC correctness

We are working on improving the correctness and coverage of the RPC methods. This will help to ensure that the Forest node behaves as expected and that the RPC methods return the correct data. Forever! ♾️

Other

As always, see the CHANGELOG for details. Note that it contains primarily client-facing changes, so if you're interested in the nitty-gritty details, you'll need to go through the commit history. 🤓