SMFT
Last month, there were several improvements related to the SMFT. One of them updated the stability of the consensus algorithm, while another added default parameters for the workchain delivery.
Furthermore, there were fixes and changes aimed at enhancing performance. During August, these updates were tested in the devnet to prepare for release in production.
Shard Merging
One update addressed the issue with finding a shard in the process of merging shards. In Everscale, workchains composed of shards that can confirm transactions concurrently. When the network’s workload increases, shards split to increase the number of processing threads, and when it drops, they merge back.
The deep refactoring of the REMP protocol introduced a new instability in the code that prevented proper shard merging. It was investigated and fixed.
