Ethereum Development Update 2015 / Week 44
With DEVCON1 just a week away, the team is gearing up to share all the great tools and technologies the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks, including Microsoft’s Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray. Tickets are limited and expected to sell out. If you haven’t registered yet, go to: https://devcon.ethereum.org Secure your spot now!
cpp-Ethereum
Turbo Ethereum 1.0.0 released It’s one of the C++ tools. Work on state tree cleanup and network protocol upgrades has been completed (PV 62 and 63). Several Mix bugs have been fixed and the team is working to improve the build/release process.
Gothereum
Geth is gearing up for the 1.3.0 release and continues to build new features such as RPC with push support and the Natural Language Specification (NatSpec) to allow for more user-friendly confirmation messages. Filter search optimizations have been added to speed up access to historical logs.
Pytherium
Pyethapp continues to move forward with some upgrades to user services and RPC efficiency this week.
corps
We are working to finalize our Swarm accounting and incentive mechanisms with a white paper on our findings. The initial integration of IPFS with Swarm as a data store begins in the client.
Light Client/Mobile
New network protocols that support fast synchronization are evolving rapidly and will become the foundation for future light clients, helping new users bootstrap onto the network in minutes.
Fog
Wallet Beta 3 is coming soon with contract deployment and custom token support. Both Go and C++ clients are integrated, giving users a choice of consensus implementation.
firmness
First proof of concept formal verification Solidity contracts are now available through the Why3 tool. Additional attention has been paid to internal types such as tuples. Documents updated online https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/docs/home/