Weekly updates
Updates
A weekly record of what shipped, gathered automatically from GitHub and grouped by deliverable, with a short narrative from the team.
- Week 41 · 2026Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026
5 PRs merged · 1 issue closed · 63 commits
5 PRs merged, 1 other opened and 63 commits across two repos, with no releases. Two issues were opened: the Aiken bump (2893), closed by its merge, and a migration away from the deprecated cardano-api transaction body API (2896), left open.…
- Week 40 · 2026Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
3 PRs merged · 19 commits
3 PRs merged and 19 commits across two repos, with no releases. One issue was opened and is still open: 2891, that a ReqSn at the same version may drop or swap the pending incremental action. The merges are a fix for a node crash on fanout…
- Week 39 · 2026Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026
5 PRs merged · 2 issues closed · 47 commits
5 PRs merged, 7 others opened and 47 commits across two repos, with no releases. Two issues were opened and closed within the week: 2876, fixed by the node bump below, and 2886, the acknowledgement-signature problem migration; the other fou…
- Week 38 · 2026Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026
5 PRs merged · 2 issues closed · 37 commits
5 PRs merged, 1 opened and 37 commits across two repos, with no releases. Two issues closed, each by one of the merges below (2855, 2871). Two of the five merges are last week's leftovers, described then; the other three are a script regen,…
- Week 37 · 2026Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026
4 PRs merged · 15 issues closed · 36 commits
4 PRs merged, 3 opened and 36 commits across two repos. A consolidation week after the 2.4.0/2.4.1 pair: the merged work is a dependency bump, a test fix and last week's two leftovers, while the substance sits in the three PRs opened, two o…
- Week 36 · 2026Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
2 PRs merged · 2 issues closed · 2 releases · 23 commits
A quiet week by the counters (2 PRs merged, 3 opened, 23 commits, two issues opened and two closed) but a loud one in substance: Hydra 2.4.0 shipped on Tuesday, and 2.4.1, a security release, superseded it on Wednesday. Anyone running 2.3.0…
- Week 35 · 2026Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026
19 PRs merged · 8 issues closed · 63 commits
19 PRs merged, 3 opened and 63 commits across three repos. Three issues were opened (2845, 2846 and 2848, the last fixed by 2849 below) and eight closed, five of them by this week's merges (2831, 2833, 2594, The headline is the specificatio…
- Week 34 · 2026Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026
8 PRs merged · 3 issues closed · 47 commits
8 PRs merged, 5 opened and 47 commits. Three issues were opened (2830, the 13 PRs carry a milestone this week, but those four include the headline: the CBOR pair, in review since mid-July, landed under Performance. Reactive. Four merges, al…
- Week 33 · 2026Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026
8 PRs merged · 9 issues closed · 43 commits
8 PRs merged, 6 others opened and 43 commits. Four issues opened and nine closed, four of those by this week's merges and five in a triage pass. Only 6 of the 14 PRs land on a deliverable this week, five of them by milestone; the rest, most…
- Week 32 · 2026Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026
9 PRs merged · 7 issues closed · 48 commits
9 PRs merged, 7 issues closed and 48 commits, with 22 of 23 items attributed. Maintenance and DevX (M5). Deposits too large to be claimed by an increment transaction are now rejected (2807), closing a case where a deposit could be accepted…
- Week 31 · 2026Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026
2 PRs merged · 9 issues closed · 22 commits
2 PRs merged, 9 issues closed and 22 commits: a consolidation week, clearing a backlog of older issues while the next round of work opened. Maintenance and DevX (M5). Both merged PRs landed here: a Blockfrost inline-datum test decoupled fro…
- Week 30 · 2026Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026
16 PRs merged · 3 issues closed · 141 commits
We got a lot done this week: 16 PRs merged, 11 opened and 141 commits. Performance (M2), the milestone week. The perf-0 … perf-4 stack all merged on 23 July and is the evidence behind M2.1 (increased TPS by at least 2x). It runs from measur…
- Week 29 · 2026Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026
1 PR merged · 1 issue closed · 1 release · 35 commits
Hydra 2.3.0 shipped this week, the only release in the archive so far. Otherwise quiet for merges: 1 PR merged, 1 issue closed and 35 commits, 14 on hydra, 7 on hydra-explorer and 14 on this tracker. Performance (M2). The CBOR thread starts…
- Week 28 · 2026Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026
10 PRs merged · 3 issues closed · 47 commits
10 PRs merged and 47 commits, the heaviest merge week until W30, and almost entirely bug-fixing. Operational Excellence (M3). The largest bucket this week. Pending deposits now survive a restart after rotation (2758), a VACUUM race between…
- Week 27 · 2026Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026
2 PRs merged · 5 issues closed · 18 commits
2 PRs merged, 5 issues closed and 18 commits: a week of closing out long-standing bugs rather than opening new fronts. Operational Excellence (M3). Both merged PRs landed here: pre-rotated databases are now kept around for operators who wan…
- Week 26 · 2026Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026
1 PR merged · 1 issue closed · 2 commits
A setup week: 1 PR merged, 4 PRs opened and 2 commits, with most of the effort going into filing the work that lands over the following weeks. Maintenance and DevX (M5). The merged change stopped benchmark working state from leaking into th…