Stacks Tech Update 11/15/24

Hey Stackers,

We’re back with an ongoing status around what’s shipped, what’s being fixed, what’s planned/coming.

The Latest:

Release 3.0.0.0.2 includes additional performance improvements, improves consistency in block production and validation.

Various fixes and improvements to the P2P stack are live now and intended to address / improve the following:

• Situations in which a node would stop syncing to chain tip in some cases.

• Situations in which a node would struggle to keep up with chain tip due to invalid traffic from bad peers (the deny_nodes workaround from the previous update is no longer necessary).

• Overall improved downloader performance with better retry logic, error handling and caching.

What’s Ahead:

• [Priority]: Improving tenure extend

• [Priority]: Preparation for SIP-029

• Improvements to resiliency of signer validation logic to minimize re-orgs of valid blocks.

• Addressing an issue where miners are unable to extend their tenures successfully. PR 5452.