LONDON (Bywire News) - The EOS Mandel update will be a major development for EOS. For the first time, the community will have control of the codebase and will have the chance to make the first major upgrade since EOS. 2.0. Every week the team leading the development has been holding weekly meetings about progress. The latest is available on YouTube, but we’ve summarised the key points here.
Platform support
EOS Support Team sent out surveys this week. 100 or so emails were sent to dApps, and 15 to decentralised exchanges which have also been spreading across 76 different Telegram Channels. There are no results yet, but they hope to see some next week.
Docker imaging test
Most of the development is done with documentation and testing almost complete. Testing for docker images has expanded to become a full blown developer environment, which also includes a web IDE.
Code development
The scope for Mandel 3.1 has been more or less finalised and all features are expected to be ready for testing by early June or perhaps late May.
The transaction Lifecycle features for API+ are being developed by OCI and are expected to be completed in the coming days.
Testing
EOS Nation is continuing to test transaction lifecycle features from the 3.1 pre-release on Jungle 4 as they become available
EOSphere is now running Mandel 3.05 RC1 on Jungle4 for their public API and seed peer.
Jungle forking
Lastly, they had time for a question from Yves La Rose of the ENF about reports from developers that Jungle was having a number of forks and LIB fell behind. La Rose asked for information about why this was happening to ensure they can stabilise it. This is where they are pointing out people who are developing on EOS for the first time.
Daniel Keys checks with Matthew Darwin offline. He has since reported back that this is not due to any issue with the Mandel software and this should not be unexpected for Jungle4 given the testing happening on unstable releases. He suggests the ENF may want to consider funding a stable testnet for dApp developers, along the lines of the B1 testnet, which is no longer stable.
(Writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior)