Welcome to the last update of the year. We’re happy to be finishing on a high, with the CloserNet testnet and the community helping us check our fix for what we hope will prove to be the last major bug in basic data handling. We were making an assumption that nodes were being ordered by closeness to our node, whereas this was...
With the current testnet flying high, MaidSafe finish 2023 on a high and 2024 is something to look forward to if you value security and privacy for your data....
One of the changes we’re working through this week concerns the updated version of libp2p, which brings some welcome improvements to AutoNAT - detecting and enabling nodes that are behind a firewall or router to join. We will soon be able to distinguish between global and private IP addresses, which was an issue before....
A good week of bug fixes and tweaks in preparation for our next testnet: NodeDiscoveryNet, which will look at how nodes find each other on the network. We’ve found a cause of excessive memory usage. We thought that nodes were only sending messages to the eight closest nodes to them, whereas they were actually sending messages...
