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Blockchain Beta Deploy

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We rolled out the Beta update over the weekend and it appears to have helped some, but a number of issues were discovered that caused unneeded network load, slowing down blocks and elections.

Content

  • An optimization was added to ignore transactions already in the honey badger buffer.

  • Elections that failed were not being cleaned up. Now they are.

  • A recent blockchain refactor was reverted because it was inappropriately dropping transactions.

  • The transaction manager now dumps a transaction if it sees f+1 rejections from the consensus group.

  • More informative logging messages added around transaction validation and speculative absorption. This will help diagnose lingering issues.

Deployment Plan

The patches are directly related to a focused set of issues that should improve chain behavior. We plan to let this beta run for 24 hours and then deploy it to the network at large.