This Week in Lotus - Week 49

Posted December 9, 2022 by  ‐ 2 min read

The final release of the Lotus v1.19.0 will be released this weekend. This feature r🤩 SplitStore, the 🆕 experimental Lotus node cluster feature, as well as numerous enhancements and bugfixes.

Avoid Add-Piece panic! We have gotten multiple reports about panics during the AddPiece phase after the network version 17 upgrade.

We have issued and merged a fix for the panic, which will be backported to the v1.19.0 release coming this weekend. We will also issue a patch release v1.18.2 with the fix.

Network version 18 - Hygge: The Lotus team has focused on preliminary work for the upcoming network version 18, codenamed Hygge, this week!

In addition to all the FEVM-related Filecoin improvement proposals that have been accepted, there are a couple of drafted/pending FIPs that are being considered for the upcoming version:

You can check out the current scope of nv18 here!

🌌 For builders excited about FVM: Check out Space Warp - it is a jam-packed program for builders leading up to the launch of Filecoin’s Virtual Machine on mainnet.

We have some secret projects that we are working on, we will reveal more later 🤫 PeSto and FilFil coming soon…

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