Weekly dev gist 6

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Dev diary: entry 1

The Ethereum Developer Logs - Stardate 5210.5

The core team has decided to include EIP-8 in the homestead release. This means that all implementations are required to implement the EIP-8 networking changes.

General

• EIP-8
• Homestead website #161

Go

The Go team's focus this week has mainly been on homestead and bug fixes for the upcoming 1.4 release. The schedule for the Go team's homestead and next feature release will be homestead first followed by 1.4 one to two weeks after.

The following tasks are specific to the develop branch of go-ethereum.

Merged

This week we've merged the following PRs in to the develop branch:

• RPC getWork fixed #2170
• RPC GET request fixed #2169
• ABI event parsing (Go) #2167
• Modification to CONTRIB #2166
• Containers change #2165 & #2164
• Removed LOG notifications #2106
• Debug: transactions (debug.replayTransaction) #2156 (courtesy of @ppratscher)
• Debug: profiling and traces #2151
• Windows discovery fixed #2146
• RPC pending fixed #2154
• IPC creation in node #2168

Worked on

This week we've been working on and continue to work:

• Homestead changes #2116
• BlockChain refactor in preparation for LES #2081
• Debug: EVM, block chain #2141
• p2p network stopping issue #2161
• LES protocol #2102 & #2120 & #2159
• Trie state pre-pruning #2095
• EIP-8 implementation #2091

C++

The C++ team is preparing for the next release for Mix and eth. To this end, we are mostly working on fixing bugs in Mix and testing the new features of eth.

Mix

• fixed contract deployment
• fixed project paths on Windows
• finished implementation of the new project file view
• finished the "welcome screen"

Solidity

• Release of version 0.2.1
• Working on support for fixed point numbers (courtesy of @VoR0220)
• Providing index access to bytesNN types.

Eth

• EIP-8
• make RPC-interface compatible for "geth attach" to use
• test PV63 (cross platform)