Dev update for the week of Feb 22nd
Important Updates
Sia v1.5.5 is out! This release includes new download code that improve throughput and consistency, as well as the usual bug fixes and minor improvements. For more details, check out Matt’s blog post.
As always, you can download Sia from https://sia.tech/ or update by running siac update.
Posts and blogs
We’re officially announcing Skynet’s new and improved support site.
Getting started? If you’re a developer, student, or just Skynet-curious, this is your ultimate Skynet Guide. It features updated articles and the ability for users to submit edits. Our new Developer Evangelist Daniel did a great job getting this resource together.
From the community
From serverless, a quick script to dump Skylinks from your Skynet rental folder if you have a node on the fritz. It lets you take the skylinks and start over on a new node.
Dev links
Github
Skynet JS SDKs
#240 Marcin added a contributors guide. NOTE the guide is for all of the Github repos. You can see the new guide location in this PR.
Sky Standards
#8 redsolver added post mentions, deletion, and poll to the Post schema
Skynet Webportal
#633 Karol automated the blocklist updates to pull from a source.
Sia Support Docs
#4 eliasmarkc fixed a minor typo in the support docs.
Skynet Accounts
#33 Ivo implemented login/logout as well as some basic user information logging.
#34 Ivo implemented the user’s statistics endpoint.
Skynet Workshop
#12 Matt did an overhaul to update the workshop to be in React.
Sia
!5071 Matt added a new accounting module for the sia node for some basic accounting related to the sia modules.
!5076 Matt extended the FileInfo for siafiles to include repair information.
!5085 PJ added scheduled price table updates to help workers recover faster from situtaions such as the host restarting.
!5094 PJ documented the new Download code in the internal Renter README.
!5096 Matt implemented a bubble scheduler to improve metadata updates.
!5103 Nate added a /host/contract GET endpoint.
!5084 and !5105 Chris implemented key parts of the subscription code for registry updates.
!5106 PJ fixed a bug with the timeout handling in the download code.
Gitlab
sia.tech
!76 Steve added a Merch link to the footer.
Sia AntFarm
!163 Fil fixed a bug where the antfarm might assign an address of an unavilable port.
SiaMux
!74 Chris added a handler to enforce execution in series.
Links
Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Skynet website, Sia website
Until next week.
