fbarbu15 · Nov 3, 2026 · Nov 3, 2026 · Nov 3, 2026
diff --git a/content/dst/ift/2026q4-dst-tooling.md b/content/dst/ift/2026q4-dst-tooling.md
@@ -52,5 +52,6 @@ Should be made general when possible.
     - [iftech/10ksim#442](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/442) Fix cleanup wait and CronJob cleanup
     - [iftech/dst-libp2p-test-node#63](https://github.com/iftech/dst-libp2p-test-node/pull/63) Shadow build for the two-binary regression node
     - [iftech/10ksim#444](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/444) Fix the Shadow log pull and the exit code of a failed Shadow run
+    - [iftech/10ksim#453](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/453) Fail a run that published off its configured rate
 - Reports:
 - Other:
diff --git a/content/dst/ift/2026q4-libp2p-evaluation.md b/content/dst/ift/2026q4-libp2p-evaluation.md
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ and ensure they don't happen again.
 - Code:
     - [iftech/10ksim#418](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/418) Connection cap and bootstrap image options for the nim-libp2p nodes
     - [iftech/10ksim#419](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/419) Partition analysis: phases from each message's publish record
+    - [iftech/10ksim#420](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/420) Partition cut scenario: cut a formed network in two and heal it
 - Reports:
     - Tested Kademlia liveness-loop and bucket-rotation changes and updated the [nim-libp2p v2.4.0 regression report](https://app.notion.com/p/3dd8f96fb65c81c194b8ce51ea753a52).
 - Other:
@@ -79,9 +80,9 @@ different implementations.
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:ift:2026q4-libp2p-evaluation:automatic-reporting`
 * owner: Alan
-* status: in progress (80%)
+* status: done
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
-* end-date: 2026/12/31
+* end-date: 2026/11/03
 
 #### Description
 Make use of the main tools available in the main repository to perform automatic analysis and reporting for
@@ -95,4 +96,5 @@ libp2p team, either by commit, each X amount of time or triggered manually.
     - [iftech/10ksim#446](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/446) run-nodes: allow count 0 to skip a group
     - [iftech/10ksim#447](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/447) run-nodes: name log files after nodes and reword the summary
     - [iftech/10ksim#448](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/448) run-nodes: optional tag that replaces every group's image tag
+    - [iftech/10ksim#456](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/456) Run nodes: attach every node's logs to every run
 - Reports:
diff --git a/content/dst/logos/2026q4-messaging-evaluation.md b/content/dst/logos/2026q4-messaging-evaluation.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ and ensure they don't happen again.
 ### Messaging API — General Availability
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:logos:2026q4-messaging-evaluation:messaging-api`
 * owner: Alan
-* status: in progress (50%)
+* status: in progress (70%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/19
 * end-date: 2026/10/30
 
@@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ regression reports.
     - [iftech/10ksim#450](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/450) logos-messaging: post-run analysis
     - [iftech/pod-api-requester#12](https://github.com/iftech/pod-api-requester/pull/12) Messaging send route for the logos delivery Messaging API
     - [iftech/pod-api-requester#11](https://github.com/iftech/pod-api-requester/pull/11) Send no body on GET when params are empty
+    - [iftech/10ksim#455](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/455) logos-messaging: standard mesh size readiness probe after a one-time subscription check
+    - [iftech/10ksim#452](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/452) logos-messaging: scrape metrics and draw the standard plots over the sending window
+    - [logos-messaging/logos-delivery#4651](https://github.com/logos-messaging/logos-delivery/issues/4651) Increase in CPU usage
+    - [logos-messaging/logos-delivery#4652](https://github.com/logos-messaging/logos-delivery/issues/4652) Fix incorrect health report for relay or core mode
+    - Extended the Messaging API experiment to Store and Edge nodes and completed an initial small run.
 - Reports:
+    - Added 1,000-node runs varying settling time, full-mesh readiness, and CPU limits to the [Messaging API baseline report](https://app.notion.com/p/4008f96fb65c81f9a5edd2818ffb766b).
 - Other:
     - Ran Messaging API baseline experiments with 100 and 1,000 nodes.
 

diff --git a/content/dst/logos/2026q4-storage-evaluation.md b/content/dst/logos/2026q4-storage-evaluation.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ filesharing client implementation under heavy/big workloads.
 > *Note*: This needs more input from project
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:logos:2026q4-storage-evaluation:filesharing-client-mix`
 * owner: Alberto
-* status: in progress (25%)
+* status: in progress (50%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -66,3 +66,4 @@ filesharing client implementation under heavy/big workloads using mix protocol.
 - Related PRs if apply:
     - [Storage and Mix experiment](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/tree/Alberto/storage).
     - Refactored [pod-api-requester](https://github.com/iftech/pod-api-requester) to provide utilities for the Storage scenario.
+    - [iftech/10ksim#454](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/454) Storage experiment
diff --git a/content/dst/status/2026q4-status-evaluation.md b/content/dst/status/2026q4-status-evaluation.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ TBD
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:status:2026q4-status-evaluation:reliability`
 * owner: Alberto
-* status: in progress (85%)
+* status: in progress (95%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ Compare results with old status-go.
     - Adapted and redeployed Status benchmark utilities in the lab.
     - [iftech/status-benchmarks#45](https://github.com/iftech/status-benchmarks/pull/45) Updates
     - [iftech/status-benchmarks#47](https://github.com/iftech/status-benchmarks/pull/47) Add plots
+    - [Status analysis branch](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/tree/dst-analysis).
 - Documents:
+    - Identified a light-node rate-limiter timing mismatch causing valid messages to remain pending in MVDS and arrive minutes late.
+    - Identified a feedback loop in which delayed processing delays acknowledgements, triggers MVDS retransmissions, and increases the processing backlog.
+    - [Status delay investigation](https://discord.com/channels/1210237582470807632/1555207381355597915/1565418895873941606).
 
 ### Logos delivery integration
 

diff --git a/content/monthly/2026-10.md b/content/monthly/2026-10.md
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+---
+title: 2026-10 Vac monthly
+tags:
+  - vac-monthly
+date: 2026-10-30
+draft: false
+---
+
+### BI
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Upgraded the Status Engagement Bot SDK and improved the bot structure.
+- Created a Status SDK command-line interface for Hermes integration.
+- Worked on cross-chain swaps in the Status wallet.
+- Updated the Logos communication funnel dashboard from feedback.
+- Worked on adding missing Element data to the communication funnel dashboard.
+- Worked on improving YouTube data extraction.
+- Updated Logos Circle CRM from Movement Team feedback and advanced its dashboard.
+- Worked on adding Keycard crypto payment data to the dashboard.
+- Extracted and analysed Keycard OpenAI ads data.
+- Advanced GitHub extraction migration to the new Airbyte Kubernetes environment.
+- Worked on a dashboard to monitor data transformations.
+
+### DST
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Investigated unstable Status one-to-one and group delivery through expanded benchmarks and latency plots.
+- Found a Status rate-limiter timing mismatch that rejects valid light-node messages and delays delivery.
+- Identified a feedback loop where delayed acknowledgements trigger retransmissions and further message-processing delays.
+- Confirmed that a lower publish rate explained the nim-libp2p 2.3.0 bandwidth gap.
+- Repeated full Logos Delivery tests at the configured publish rate.
+- Fixed benchmark publish rates when the Kubernetes API is slow.
+- Enabled P2P to trigger lab runs from GitHub using configurations in their own repository.
+- Improved lab-run summaries and attached every node's logs to each run.
+- Built a Logos Storage experiment using Mix and merged its experiment code.
+- Ran Logos Delivery Messaging API baselines with 100 and 1,000 nodes.
+- Extended Messaging API experiments to Store and Edge nodes, identifying a potential Edge-node health-reporting issue.
+- Merged a network partition-and-recovery scenario for regression testing.
+- Fixed Shadow runs to support two binaries and report failures correctly.
+
+### Infra
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Completed the Rocketpool oDAO smartnode migration from AWS to OVH on NixOS.
+- Deployed additional Lido CMv2 validator keys and the CSM 0x02 Hoodi testnet operator.
+- Rolled out Nimbus upgrades and monitoring for the Sepolia Glamsterdam fork.
+- Improved website health checks to detect failures that still return HTTP 200.
+- Deployed the Attic Nix binary cache and tested Nimbus repository uploads.
+- Completed the Vault upgrade to 1.21.4 across all cluster hosts.
+- Advanced fixes for the LEZ 0.3.1 testnet release.
+- Fixed slow website loads caused by an Nginx cache misconfiguration.
+- Upgraded Jenkins controllers to address vulnerabilities.
+- Added an OAuth proxy to secure Airbyte login.
+- Fixed Nimbus builds and node resyncing on macOS.
+- Restored the compromised Nimbus blog and secured its Ghost instance.
+- Enabled store-sync on Status production fleet nodes.
+- Fixed macOS Status App builds in Jenkins CI.
+- Completed ERE file generation for mainnet and the Hoodi testnet.
+- Deployed proxy hosts and a load balancer to improve website access.
+
+### Nim
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Released Nimble 0.26.1 with command-injection and dependency-resolution fixes, followed by Nimble 0.26.2.
+- Added the PubGrub solver option and separated Nimble dependency-resolution modules.
+- Fixed Nimble discovery of newer untagged versions hidden by cached results.
+- Fixed NimScript dependency paths and bootstrap exception handling.
+- Added Nimble canary checks comparing release and nightly versions on important repositories.
+- Released Nim langserver 1.16.0 with its new transport.
+- Reduced nimsuggest query overhead by up to 250 milliseconds.
+- Fixed nimlangserver workspace races and stale results from earlier file edits.
+- Fixed nimlangserver project resolution and nimsuggest lifecycle handling.
+- Added faster hexadecimal conversion and UTF-8 validation to nim-stew.
+- Fixed a nim-taskpools regression affecting garbage-collected task results.
+- Built the second nim-lint prototype with per-line disabling and a GitHub Action.
+- Updated Nim Docker images.
+
+### P2P
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Released nim-lsquic 0.11.2 and advanced it to 0.11.3.
+- Added early muxer negotiation and optimistic protocol selection to nim-libp2p.
+- Integrated shared RLN proofs into native Logos Delivery routing.
+- Added Mix packet-authentication checks.
+- Added GossipSub topic-stream transport, lifecycle handling and interoperability tests.
+- Fixed QUIC connections closing when no streams are open.
+- Fixed duplicate DNS responses in nim-libp2p.
+- Improved nim-libp2p certificate renewal.
+- Completed scheduled network-lab runs that open issues when nodes fail.
+- Added 48-hour Nimbus health checks on the Hoodi fleet for labelled PRs.
+- Advanced experimental Waggle dissemination, Rust interoperability and recovery tests in open PRs.
+- Added the Kademlia record-store interface; storage implementations remain in open PRs.
+- Fixed Kademlia automatic mode restarting from current network reachability.
+- Fixed binary payload delivery in the Logos libp2p module by using base64.
+- Fixed nim-ffi caller-thread initialization and listener removal during callbacks.
+
+### QA
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Merged nightly Logos Delivery testing and issue reporting into Status CI.
+- Expanded Basecamp tests for UI-plugin reloads, module inspection and repository management.
+- Ran Basecamp 0.3.0 release checks on macOS and Linux.
+- Added LEZ sequencer-registration tests.
+- Completed the Logos Execution Zone specification audit run, reporting seven high-severity findings.
+- Added composed code audits, findings history and Notion support to the source-level QA prototype.
+- Reported Logos Blockchain's missing signature-validation check.
+- Added Logos Delivery reproduction tests for message-size and store-sync failures.
+- Reported Logos Delivery peer-discovery, filtering and lifecycle issues.
+- Added Status desktop NFT-transfer, onchain-friend and payment-request tests.
+- Added Status desktop bridge, swap, language-switching and group-chat mention tests.
+- Added Status desktop community-token and QR-code scanning tests.
+- Added status-go community-token and thread-permission tests.
+- Got the Status mobile end-to-end gate running on iOS; accessibility failures remain.
+- Investigated a Status mobile iOS upgrade blocker.
+- Checked Status mobile 2.39.2 swaps and bridges on iOS; both passed.
+- Found 13 Keycard scenarios missing end-to-end coverage.
+- Built an Android end-to-end test gate triggered by PR comments.
+
+### Security
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Closed the macOS CI incident after reinstall verification, firewall hardening and a clean indicator sweep.
+- Triaged 16 audit findings and continued vulnerability-backlog reviews.
+- Updated treasury incident runbooks after the first live secure-multisig-signer signing.
+- Ran a finance signer-unavailable exercise with backup signatories.
+- Reported an unauthenticated Logos Blockchain node wallet API.
+- Reported four Logos Blockchain findings, including one high-severity issue.
+- Subsequently confirmed six Logos Blockchain fixes and reported nine new findings, including two high-severity issues.
+- Reported 11 Logos Chat and 24 Logos Delivery security findings.
+- Reported five Logos Storage security findings.
+- Followed up Logos Messaging audit findings; fixes remained outstanding in the reported update.
+- Prepared the LEZ external-audit scope document.
+- Recommended replacing the LEZ referral program's trusted oracle with an on-chain vote.
+- Reported seven new LEZ security findings, including one critical issue.
+- Enrolled multiple repositories in Anthropic's OSS scanner program.
+- Trialled Greptile code review on 23 PRs across 15 repositories.
+- Flagged the go-sqlcipher branch pin during security review.
+- Reviewed Keycard master-key export fixes.
+
+### TKE
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Simplified the Logos token buyback-and-make model and collected value-accrual data.
+- Created the token-unit precision specification PR and addressed feedback.
+- Researched liquidity programmes on other blockchains.
+- Formalized a project-management approach for the liquidity working group.
+- Presented liquidity-budget work to IFT.
+- Worked on framing liquidity as a constrained-optimization problem.
+- Reviewed community-node validator incentives and proposed a solution.
+- Proposed a decay rate for indirect validator referrals.
+- Completed and presented work on culture incentives.
+- Finalized privacy-model parameters with the Blockchain team.
+- Worked on LEZ sequencer-economics simulations.
+- Advanced liquid-staking prioritization and reviewed proposed parameters.
+- Modelled liquid-staking attack vectors in Logos and presented the economic-modelling work to IFT.
+
+### Web
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Completed the Basecamp landing-page renewal with responsive layouts and platform-aware installation links.
+- Added searchable Logos articles and moved article and podcast listings under media.
+- Added the Logos media calendar.
+- Added the Logos zine catalogue with PDF readers and print guidance.
+- Completed redirects from blog.logos.co to logos.co/media.
+- Promoted 18 approved Waku articles to production, preserving article content and metadata.
+- Added the Museum of Civil Liberties exhibit submission form.
+- Added the museum submission API with email delivery, request limits and origin checks.
+- Advanced Developer Programmes and Lambda Prize pages in an open PR.
+- Patched security advisories affecting the Logos and Status websites.
+- Advanced admin-acid security hardening in an open PR.
+- Added newsletter signup rules and deployed local-event emails to city subscribers.
+- Added font-size and colour controls to the email editor.
+- Merged AI review and documentation tools into a shared monorepo.
+- Fixed AI documentation synchronization review requests.
+- Fixed the Status website release banner to accept titles with or without a version prefix.
+- Fixed the Status mobile news feed to serve article markup.
+- Added a local Logos website Playwright suite; it remains uncommitted and under testing.
diff --git a/content/nim/ift/2026q4-nim-core-libs.md b/content/nim/ift/2026q4-nim-core-libs.md
@@ -64,12 +64,14 @@ Triage issues, address regressions and compatibility problems, support downstrea
 - [status-im/nim-taskpools#77](https://github.com/status-im/nim-taskpools/pull/77) Workaround data race in `example` thread join
 - [status-im/nimbus-common-workflow#37](https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-common-workflow/pull/37) Add `nim/doc` & `nim/tools` to cache
 - [status-im/nim-chronos#730](https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/730) Fix doc examples.
+- [status-im/nim-chronos#742](https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/pull/742) Add missing `asyncengine` nimdoc symbols
+- [docker-library/official-images#22631](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/22631) Add Nim 2.4.0 and 2.2.14.
 
 ### Nimlangserver improvements
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q4-nim-core-libs:nimlangserver`
 * owner: Juan/Esteban/Constantine
-* status: in progress (30%)
+* status: in progress (50%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -114,6 +116,21 @@ Use the nim-web3 approach as the model for the LSP implementation:
 - [nim-lang/langserver#495](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/495) Fix restart nimsuggest on configuration changes
 - [nim-lang/langserver#494](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/494) Await workspace configuration
 - [nim-lang/langserver#493](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/493) Avoid showing chk file result for an old file edit
+- [nim-lang/langserver#513](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/513) Stop only closed files Nimsuggests
+- [nim-lang/langserver#512](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/512) Get Nimsuggest without opening files in tools
+- [nim-lang/langserver#511](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/511) Remove get Nimsuggest retries
+- [nim-lang/langserver#510](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/510) Mark a file unsaved only when it differs from the disk
+- [nim-lang/langserver#509](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/509) Track the last used nimsuggest by project file
+- [nim-lang/langserver#508](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/508) Avoid project file open on `didOpenFile`
+- [nim-lang/langserver#507](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/507) Reuse nimsuggest only if file is known
+- [nim-lang/langserver#506](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/506) Enforce the nimsuggest cap for mapped projects
+- [nim-lang/langserver#505](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/505) Fix reuse nimsuggest right project
+- [nim-lang/langserver#504](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/504) Make `shutdownNimsuggest` reentrant
+- [nim-lang/langserver#503](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/503) Avoid `nimble dump` on shutdown
+- [nim-lang/langserver#502](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/502) Fix project resolve for dirs outside `srcDir`
+- [nim-lang/langserver#501](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/501) Fix failed `nimble dump` handling
+- [nim-lang/langserver#499](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/499) Log nimsuggest stderr immediately
+- [nim-lang/langserver#498](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/498) Lazy nimble project resolve
 
 ### Nimlangserver and nimsuggest support for IFT projects
 
@@ -159,7 +176,7 @@ Aim to benefit from incremental compilation and other applicable Nimony-related
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q4-nim-core-libs:nim-lint`
 * owner: Constantine
-* status: in progress (25%)
+* status: in progress (60%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -171,3 +188,6 @@ Provide initial rules for IFT projects, such as flagging `asyncSpawn`, with seve
 #### Deliverables
 - Linter engine, initial rules, and documentation for adding rules and integrating checks into CI.
 - Wrote the second nim-lint specification after feedback on the first prototype.
+- Implemented a prototype based on the reviewed second nim-lint specification.
+- Implemented per-line lint disabling.
+- Implemented a GitHub Action for nim-lint.