This Month in Forest - September 2024

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This Month in Forest 🌲

Welcome to the September 🌤️ edition of This Month in Forest! New, shiny JSON-RPC methods, documentation revamp (in progress) and more! Let's dive in!

Highlights

F3 sidecar 🚀

The F3 sidecar integration is now available in the Forest daemon! See the documentation for more details. The next step is to integrate the sidecar to the Forest binary via FFI so that no additional setup is required.

Documentation 📚

documentation n. [Latin docomentum "warning"] 1 The promised literature that fails to arrive with the supporting hardware. 2 A single, illegible, photocopied page of proprietary caveats and suggested infractions. 3 The detailed, unindexed description of a superseded package.
The Computer Contradictionary, Stan Kelly-Bootle

Based on our roadmap and the input from the Filecoin community, we're revamping our documentation. This is still a work in progress, but some parts are already available. Check out the latest deployment and let us know what you think! We'll be thrilled to hear your feedback (especially on what is missing or unclear).

Development

Added 🏗️

• Filecoin.EthGetTransactionByHash
• Filecoin.EthCall
• Filecoin.EthNewFilter
• Filecoin.EthUninstallFilter
• Filecoin.EthNewBlockFilter
• Filecoin.EthNewPendingTransactionFilter
• Filecoin.EthAddressToFilecoinAddress
• Filecoin.MarketAddBalance
• Filecoin.EthGetTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex and Filecoin.EthGetTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex (though without actual support, which matches the current Lotus's behaviour).

Fixed 🩹

• incorrect behaviour in RPC methods Filecoin.StateCirculatingSupply, Filecoin.StateCall, and Filecoin.Version.
• the sample monitoring compose file is now correctly displaying the Grafana dashboard. See here for more details.

Improved 🛠️

• The default Docker image user is now root. This breaking change might affect users who rely on the previous behaviour. The change was made to simplify the Docker image usage and avoid permission issues when running Forest in Docker. For migration instructions, see the entry in the CHANGELOG.
• The snapshot validation tool forest-tool snapshot validate now checks the snapshots individually. The previous behaviour, to validate the sum of the snapshots, can be achieved via forest-tool snapshot validate-diffs.

Other

As always, see the CHANGELOG for details. Note that it contains primarily client-facing changes, so if you're interested in the nitty-gritty details, you'll need to go through the commit history. 🤓