This Week in Lotus - Week 35

👋 Hey everyone and welcome to This Week in Lotus!

🚀 Upcoming features/enhancements:

• Sealing-as-a-service: A lot of work towards supporting partially sealed sectors imports happened this week, but there are still quite a lot to do. So by end of next week something mergeable that can be reviewed might be ready.
• A lotus info command is currently in review, it gathers a lot of nice high level node status and metrics in one place.

Bug fixes:

• A PR to ensure that connections between Boost and lotus-workers computing DataCids is closed correctly has been merged.
• A fix to ensure that the MAX_CONCURRENT environment variable for DataCid tasks is being enforced has been fixed.
• Some smaller UX-improvements where also merged, like adding a better Ledger rejection error, and ability to specify the message sender in the lotus-miner actor set-addrs command.

Protocol development:

• In Lotus we are getting ready to implement FIP0029 - Beneficiary address for SPs, you can track the open work items here. The TL;DR for FIP0029 is introducing a separation of node control and financial control, to allow for more flexible Filecoin lending markets. You can read the full FIP here.

SplitStoreV2: We are tracking a potential issue where no automatic pruning is happening when ColdStoreType is set to universal and EnableColdStoreAutoPrune = true.

FIL Lisbon now has a website, it will take place from Oct 30 - Nov 4, and the Lotus team will host a Lotus & Friends (Boost, FIL-Crypto, FVM and so on) day on the 2nd of November. We will come back with an exact agenda and place later 😄

That´s it for the week! Have a great weekend! ☀️