A lot has happened since the last update. The Bee team implemented important changes to the network: **check out the Bee 1.3.0 release **and, please, update your Bee nodes to the latest version if you haven’t done so already. All you need to know can be found in Elad Nachmias’s blog post here.
The Swarm Ecosystem team has created a brand new **Twitter account **to keep you up to date with news from projects building on Swarm, grant recipients, and much more. Make sure to follow this one to be in-the-know.
As you probably know, the fourth round of Swarm grants was a success. We are happy to see all the new interesting Swarm use cases coming to life every day. You can check this blog post and see it for yourself.
Below you’ll find all that’s been happening in Swarm for the last month. Dive right in and see what your favourite Swarm track has been up to.
Bee Track
- Released bee v1.3.0
- Bee v1.4.0 is being actively tested and is scheduled to be released W47/W48. This release changes some of the core protocol strategies and will cause unreachable nodes in the network to no longer participate in syncing and retrieval. For more details please see the recent blog post. Please make sure that your nodes’ connectivity is properly configured to accept external connections before updating to v1.4.0. Stay tuned on our Discord and Twitter for updates on when this release is expected to be rolled out
JS Track
Released two new versions of Bee-js, the latest is v2.1.1
- Bee v1.3 version compatibility
- Support for top-up and dilute postage stamp operations
- Increased maximum PSS target length
- Support for retrievability check endpoint
Released a new version of Swarm CLI, the latest is v1.6.0
- Added top level download command for retrieving any type of data from the network
- Improved the usability of the printed curl commands
- Improved the output of the feed print command
Started a new project (currently in beta) for creating and managing gateways: Gateway Proxy
- Support /bzz endpoints
- Support authorization header
- Support for hardcoded postage stamp header
DevOps Track
- Release and deployment of the Bee (v1.3.0).
- Released a new version of Bee Helm chart (v0.10.13).
- Released a new version of Beekeeper Helm chart (v0.3.7).
- Released a new version of Beekeeper (v0.8.7).
Ecosystem Track
- To build a project on Swarm, plan for what features Swarm will provide in three years’ time — a talk by Elad Verbin
- The 4th round of Swarm grants was successfully concluded. Swarm’s ecosystem of projects is growing fast. Here are the recipients from the last round of grants:
- The ecosystem comms team started to publish deep-dive blog posts about projects who build on Swarm and have received a Swarm grant. Here are a few of the latest Deep Dive blog posts: Grassroots Economics, Dapplets & Zoomerok
Research Track
- Research into how the payments from the postage stamp system can be distributed to node operators
- First steps towards setting up a reading group, focusing on (semi) academic papers that are related to distributed storage and/or anonymous messaging