This Month in Forest - October 2024

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This Month in Forest 🌲

Welcome to the October 🍺 edition of This Month in Forest!

Highlights

NV24 🛺 upgrade

We finished implementing all the features required for Forest to participate seamlessly in the NV24 🛺 update. Filecoin implementers are currently testing changes on test networks.

Please subscribe to the Forest NV24 thread for the latest updates. We will post the exact epoch for the upgrade and relevant Forest releases there.

👢 Forest bootstrap nodes

Forest bootstrap nodes power both the mainnet and calibration network. We are working on improving their stability and performance to ensure that all Filecoin nodes can connect to the network quickly and reliably.

❯ forest-cli net peers --agent | rg "bootstrap.*forest"
12D3KooWKKkCZbcigsWTEu1cgNetNbZJqeNtysRtFpq7DTqw3eqH, [/dns/bootstrap-mainnet-0.chainsafe-fil.io/tcp/34000], forest-0.20.0+git.acf0fe6

❯ forest-cli net peers --agent | rg "bootstrap.*forest"
12D3KooWABQ5gTDHPWyvhJM7jPhtNwNJruzTEo32Lo4gcS5ABAMm, [/dns/bootstrap-calibnet-0.chainsafe-fil.io/tcp/34000], forest-0.20.0+git.acf0fe6

👾 FIL-RetroPGF Round 2

Forest is participating in the FIL-RetroPGF Round 2! We'd appreciate your support there!

• Forest
• Forest Archive

Make sure to check out other interesting projects listed there! 💙

Development

⛏️ Curio integration on track

We are making good progress on integrating Curio with Forest. We have a working prototype where both can work together to advance the network's state. We are now working on improving the integration and making it more robust. This is a significant milestone for Forest, and we are excited to see it come to fruition.

⚡ Go-F3 integration

Fast Finality for Filecoin will be available for Forest in two flavours: using Go-F3 via FFI and using a sidecar. The development of Go-F3 is still in progress, and we are keeping up with the latest changes so that Forest can leverage F3 as soon as it is available in NV24.

We are also working on a Rust-F3 alternative to Go-F3. This will allow us to implement F3 more Rust-natively and unlock more possibilities for Forest, including running extremely lightweight nodes in the browser! There is still much work to be done, but we are excited about the opportunities this opens up.

💠 Eth RPC progress

We have already implemented the majority of the Eth methods required for the Filecoin Eth RPC. Now, we're fighting bigger beasts like eth_getLogs 🐉 and addressing issues in others.

See RPC progress tracking here

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. 🤓