Video summary
The FireFly Community Call for September 9, 2026, was a relatively quiet session focused on updates regarding the recent FireFly 1.5 release and ongoing project developments. The speaker highlighted that while there were no major new features to announce beyond the initial August launch, several significant improvements have been integrated into the codebase. These enhancements include new capabilities for listening to web hooks and substantial changes within the transaction manager area, particularly concerning indexing methods and bug fixes related to acknowledging windows. Additionally, the team addressed a race condition issue in delivery up windows and implemented deterministic outcomes when creating multiple listeners, with corresponding pull requests available in both the main project and the EVM connector repositories.
A major administrative milestone discussed was the successful migration of the project to a new organization, which involved considerable effort from the maintainers but resulted in no changes to the core team structure. Alongside this organizational shift, the speaker noted progress on mid-year reporting and updates to the OpenSSF scorecard, aiming to improve security posture. The team also adopted Dependabot to streamline dependency management by merging fixes into single pull requests, although the volume of daily updates remains high. This approach helps maintain code integrity across various parts of the project, ensuring that critical vulnerabilities are addressed promptly without overwhelming the development workflow.
The conversation touched upon the status of other initiatives, such as the anticipated update to Helios, which has shown signs of activity but lacks immediate concrete details. The speaker emphasized that while there is no substantial new content to present today, the community should remain engaged via Discord for questions and further discussions on the numerous ongoing fixes. The team plans to incorporate live demonstrations of new features in future calls, allowing attendees to see the practical applications of recent developments firsthand. This strategy aims to make upcoming sessions more interactive and informative, providing a clearer view of how the latest technical improvements function within the ecosystem.
In conclusion, the call served as a brief check-in to confirm that the project is moving forward steadily despite the lack of major announcements. The primary takeaway was the availability of release notes and pull requests detailing the specific fixes and feature additions for those interested in porting changes to their own implementations, such as the Corda connector. The speaker expressed satisfaction with the current trajectory and thanked the attendees for their participation, ending the session with plans to gather more visual demonstrations for the next meeting. Overall, the update reinforced the community's commitment to continuous improvement and transparency, even during quieter periods of development.
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Hey Simon, how's it going?
>> What's up?
>> All good. How are you?
>> Good.
>> All right. We'll give it a minute for
folks. I'm expecting another quiet one
today.
All right. I think we'll get started.
Not expecting a lot of folks here today.
Um
Let me share. As usual,
um
Cool.
Um
So as usual
this is a little TV event and this is
trust and we have to follow the
antitrust policy notice.
This foundation has an antitrust policy
notice which involves participation of
the participants and respecting people's
opinions and open space and this meeting
is being recorded. So please please feel
free to drop if you don't want to be in
the meeting.
Um
All right. For me nothing much to
discuss. We didn't have a call on in
August. But
the only thing to mention would be
well obviously we had the Firefly 1.5
release in the beginning of August.
So we had
this one here has lots of release notes
being August. So many many many release.
I think we'll do some sort of
presentation at some point of all the
features that got added.
There's some other features that have
been added recently as well around
listening
for web hooks. Um and also some new
changes specially in the transaction
manager area. So
some of the maintainers have been
contributing ways of of indexing. Um
something went wrong.
It's
just been some really cool features
around
indexing and some bugs that were found
around acknowledging windows and stuff.
So
some of you ever get to port these to
the transaction manager implementation
in Rust that you have in the Corda
connector
then feel free to take a look at at it.
It doesn't really change the API itself
between Firefly and the transaction
manager
framework
but it's just um also of that
specifically the EVM connector uh
adopted. So, you'll see the
corresponding PRs in in EVM connect as
well for all those fixes. Um some of
them are still ongoing.
Um and some of them are have been merged
already.
>> You mind linking to?
>> Yeah.
Uh I'll send it to you on Discord if you
want um around the different changes. We
released a new version as well last
week.
Some fixes in here. Uh
We released a couple. So, we released
this one specifically.
There was this one to protect the
delivery up windows, right? Windows
there there's an issue with some like a
race condition.
Um and added deterministic outcome as
well when creating multiple listeners.
So, we had like issues where
um
in this PR had a very very um
description around how listeners were
created and such.
Um yeah, I guess that's it for me. Uh
we've had some some traction on just the
the the PRs uh on the PRs on the
downloads of the new release.
Um oh, I've also submitted our um
mid-year report. So, our mid-year report
I submitted that 5 days ago.
Um so, here's the mid-year report.
So, if you get what's going on with the
with the PC.
Just a little bit around
the first half so far of the project. Um
the main thing obviously that we did was
move um to the new org. That was a lot
of work for folks.
Um no mantainer changes. All seems to be
the same.
Uh then you get Haborg. So, also we had
some new APIs in transaction manager
around poll patching transactions.
Um and then yeah, just crossed the whole
um
like uh project. So, I just updates all
over all over the place.
Um,
yeah, that's it. There was there wasn't
any questions for
Uh, I need to update that from TAC, not
TOC.
Um,
but yeah,
that that's it on my side. Uh,
nothing new. I did try and improve a
little bit the OpenSSF score card. So,
I've been
one thing that we did do, you might have
seen in Cardano as well. Um,
the Dependabot now merges things into
one PR.
So, now the Dependabot
>> all
very handy.
>> It is handy, but it's just a lot it's
still a lot of PRs.
>> Yeah.
>> Every day I get PRs, but yeah, we just
need to keep keep on top of the CVs, of
course,
uh, throughout the project.
Uh, I think that's it from my side.
Anything from the Cardano side?
>> Um, not particularly. There's quiet
signs of life on the update to Helios
that I was waiting on, but that's
nothing new. There's always been quiet
signs of life.
>> That's good. Um,
yeah, I guess that's it from my side.
There's there's really not not nothing
else to share apart from the release.
Um, and then, yeah, just continuing
uh,
asking folks on on Discord when they
have questions and and and and there's
like loads of fixes going across the
board in in in different parts of the
project, but not not nothing substantial
to mention today, really.
>> Great.
>> Oh, that's great.
>> All right, then. I'll I guess we'll
we'll end the call there. Quite one,
maybe.
Next time we can get maybe some demos of
some of the new the new stuff that's
been shown. We'll try and
and get those.
>> Don't forget to send me those PRs so I
can see what to rip off.
>> Cool. Yeah, I will, um, I will send you
that, uh, in Discord now.
All right. Thanks, Simon. I'll catch
there.
>> Yep. See you.
>> Bye.