Good evening all 👋

We've had another busy week!

The week began with an update to the command line interface. CLI v1.5.3 was released for testnet, and then shortly after, mainnet too. It introduced a number of Docker-related improvements including fixes for Windows/MacOS devices running docker for the first time, and improvements to the status bar during updates.

Stargate v2.2.0-96, Gateway v2.1.0-54, and Host v2.1.0-41 were then deployed to mainnet on Tuesday. These updates introduced latency monitoring to the network on an individual node level, along with network traffic metrics for operations monitoring, plus a whole bunch of other internal updates. The updates were deployed smoothly, as you can see from these images:

There was then a followup hotfix deployed to mainnet, with Stargate v2.2.1-98 fixing a small issue with the latency checks that had been deployed earlier that day.

Stargate v2.2.2-102 followed on Wednesday with a refinement to the way that latency is recorded, improving the accuracy of the values collected. The latency allows us to monitor individual node performance, but also the network as a whole through trends.

Later that day, Wallet v1.9.1 was deployed to mainnet, bringing UX fixes and improvements, including streamlined wallet creation (see below), a confirmation prompt to forgetting a wallet, and various other fixes here and there. The first of two updates to the wallet, with another one due next week ahead of us opening up the source for the web wallet.

Stargate v2.2.3-106 was also deployed to mainnet, adding system metrics for Stargate nodes, with further metrics expected to be added for Gateways, and then Hosts in the coming weeks.

Finally, Stargate v2.2.4-108 & Gateway v2.1.1-56 were deployed to mainnet, introducing session timeouts for network nodes that fail to send heartbeats for 30s. Heartbeats are sent every 5s by every node on the network. This resolved an issue where some nodes with poor network connectivity had open connections but no ability to send or receive messages from Gateways or Stargates.