With DEVCON1 just a week away, the teams are excited and getting ready to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks, including Microsoft’s Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin and Marley Gray. Tickets are limited and we anticipate selling out, so if you haven’t registered yet, head over to https://devcon.ethereum.org to secure your spot now!
cpp-ethereum
TurboEthereum released 1.0.0 of C++ tools. Work has been done on state trie pruning and updating of network protocols (PV 62 and 63). Various Mix bugs have been fixed and the team is working on improving the build/release process.
go-ethereum
Geth prepares for the release of version 1.3.0 and continues to develop new features, such as RPC with push support and Natural Language Specification (NatSpec), which allows users to receive more user-friendly confirmation messages. Filter search optimizations have been added, speeding up access to historical records.
stoney
Pyethapp continues to move forward, with some updates to user services and RPC efficiency this week.
Swarm
Work towards finalization of the Swarm accounting and incentive mechanisms along with a white paper on the research results. Swarm’s initial integration with IPFS as a data store is starting on clients.
thin client/mobile
New network protocols that support fast synchronization are rapidly maturing and will be the foundation for future thin clients, helping new users get started on the network in just a few minutes.
Fog
Wallet Beta 3 available soon with contract implementation and custom token support. Go and C++ clients are integrated, giving users a choice of consensus implementations.
Solidity
First proof of concept formal verification for Solidity contracts now available with the why3 tool. Additional attention has been paid to inner types such as tuples. Updated documentation online at https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/docs/home/
