This Month in Forest - June 2024

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This month in Forest 🌲

This month was less packed than the previous one, but we still have exciting news!

Highlights

FIL-RetroPGF-1 results 🤑

The FIL-RetroPGF-1 results are out! We're happy to announce that Forest is among the projects retro-funded. Read more below:

• Forest,
• Forest Snapshot & Archival Data Service,

We're grateful for the support and excited to continue working on Forest and related projects!

Team on-site in Berlin 🇩🇪

abend n. [From German guten Abend "good evening"]. A system ABORT deliberately induced (usually on Fridays) to allow the third-shift staff to leave early. - The Computer Contradictionary

The Forest team had a week-long on-site in Berlin, where we could work together, discuss plans for the RPC FIP, and have some fun! We also had a chance to discover our inner selves through a team-building exercise. 🧘

More RPC methods!

We're working closely with the Curio team to add more RPC methods to Forest and extend our RPC API to support required Boost-related RPC methods.

Development

Added 🏗️

In the past month, we added support for:

• Filecoin.EthGetBlockTransactionCountByNumber
• Filecoin.EthGetCode
• Filecoin.NetProtectAdd
• Filecoin.StateGetClaim
• Filecoin.StateMarketParticipants
• Filecoin.StateSectorExpiration

Removed ✂️

Given low interest and usage, we removed the JavaScript console from Forest. Depending on the ecosystem's needs and the team's capacity, interpreted language support may come in the future.

Fixed 🩹

• We're continuously working on improving Forest's stability and performance, especially on the P2P layer, so that Forest can serve as a reliable and ultra-light bootstrap node.

Other

• Forest v0.18.0 "Big Bang" 💥 released! See the CHANGELOG for more details.