Hydra

Weekly updates

Updates

A weekly record of what shipped, gathered automatically from GitHub and grouped by deliverable, with a short narrative from the team.

  1. 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…

  2. 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 fr…

  3. 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 measu…

  4. 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 split between hydra and hydra-explorer. Performance (M2). The CBOR thread starts here: an issue t…

  5. 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 outside 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 betwe…

  6. 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 wa…

  7. 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 fortnight. Maintenance and DevX (M5). The merged change stopped benchmark working state from leaking int…