Update 29 May, 2025

Development Updates
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General Progress this week

Light Client Networking (LCN / CLN)
Ongoing for over six weeks, focused on improving file upload/download reliability and stripping out unnecessary legacy code to boost performance.

Team: @anselme, @mick.vandijke, @qi_ma, @chriso, Victor

  • Improving stability for real-world usage
  • Making the client experience more consistent and efficient
  • Entering extensive testing

Reachability Checks (PR #2947)
Chris is putting #2947 and the CLN through QA. This is part of a wider effort to simplify node setup by detecting and configuring the correct networking mode automatically—so users don’t have to handle UPnP or manual config.

  • Aims to improve accessibility for less technical users
  • Expected to be a major improvement alongside CLN

RPC Removal
This removes an outdated service layer from the node and Launchpad systems to make everything lighter and less resource-heavy.

Ermine:

  • Will enter testing after LCN is integrated

CLI Feature Additions
Work is underway to include the scratch pad and pointers in the CLI – features that already exist elsewhere in the stack.

  • Fixing a gap the community flagged
  • Will ship after LCN lands

@Anselme:

  • Integrated pointer and scratchpad into the cli with the “ant pointer” and “ant scratchpad” commands
  • fixing last bugs on the CLN, which will be merged very soon and make the client MUCH lighter as well as improving performance and stability

Other Notes

  • Python + CLN integration and potential API changes are being carefully reviewed
  • Focus remains on performance gains without introducing breaking changes
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First now to read !! :slight_smile:

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Second place it seems

Light client network sounds good

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Great progress both right now and on the way… things are beginning to fly. :clap:

ICYMI: The versioned perpetual web has arrived…

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Couldn’t put it better myself…

Thanks as always to ALL involved, name-checked or not. These are exciting times.

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LCN seems promising! Keep hacking ants!

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Thanks so much to the entire Autonomi team for all of your hard work! :flexed_biceps:

There’s a lot of progress being made. We’re changing the world one week at a time.

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Even the update has been streamlined :joy:

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Looking forward to the day I can upload my huge 500 GB projects! Great work all. And give happybeing some of that IF rewards stuff. He deserves it. Cheers

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Great update! I’m especially interested in the LCN.

One thing I’ve been thinking: I remember @qi_ma saying somewhere that the self-encryption is not streaming at the moment, and that the whole file to encrypt should fit into the RAM the user has available. Is this the case? And if so, are there plans to get the upload size to not be limited by the available RAM?

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Thx 4 the update Maidsafe devs and your hard work

Thought the current client was already light like a :feather:, Bud wiser as you can hear through my voice CLN is as light as helium… Canned weight :sweat_smile:

Keep hacking super ants :clinking_beer_mugs: :beer_mug:

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