Hi everyone, and Happy New year!

The team have been back full time this week and have got 2022 off to a cracking start.

We’ve spent a block of time prioritising the roadmap for 2022; have had 10+ customer meetings; several sessions with two new partners; delivered a series of updates to testnet and to mainnet; and have moved forward with a brand and site refresh.

CLI v1.5.2 was released to mainnet. This version fixes an issue Windows users may have encountered (thanks to japoilski for the community fix) as well as a small issue with debug mode crashing.

Index v1.11.0 was deployed. This update introduces a token value endpoint, which is used by the new Edge Price bot (which you can see in Discord) 🤖. We’re planning to expand on this to provide historical data too. More on that next week.

Stargate v2.1.0-64 was deployed to mainnet introducing some additional session endpoints (used by the new Network Status bot here in Discord). This was also a great opportunity to test the update process which worked perfectly, with all devices reconnecting to the gateway quickly and smoothly.

Stargate v2.1.1-70 was deployed to mainnet with fixes for session concurrency issues along with a security patch.

Stargate v2.1.2-79 was deployed to mainnet introducing session metrics collection for monitoring. 📊

Stargate v2.1.3-85 and Gateway v2.0.1-47 were deployed to mainnet. These two updates fix an issue with sessions where a node reconnecting while still connected causes both to be disconnected. While only one device should be used per device wallet, this protects against anyone trying to use one device wallet (ergo, one stake) for multiple devices. Only one session can be active per stake at any one time.

Finally, Stargate v2.1.4-91, Gateway v2.0.2-51, and Host v2.0.1-38 were deployed to mainnet which introduced recording of network node versions in metrics to help us monitor and optimise network updates. These updates also included some refinement of messaging processing in all three nodes.

This last set of releases also saw us introduce the first Host update to mainnet, and here you can see how the update progressed: quick and smooth, with the majority of host nodes updating within a minute.