January 2025: Focused on reliability and metrics accuracy for shardeum/shardeum. Key features delivered: none this month. Major bug fix: Transaction Injection Logging Accuracy to ensure the counter increments only when an IP address is present, correcting potential metrics inaccuracies. No new features shipped this month; actions centered on improving data quality, observability, and alignment with monitoring dashboards. The change reduces false positives in transaction injection metrics, strengthening capacity planning and risk assessment.

Month: 2024-12 — Security hardening in shardeum-validator-gui focused on upgrading password hashing to Argon2id, affecting login and password-change flows. Implemented the change in the validator GUI to replace crypto.hash with argon2id.hash, reinforcing password security with a modern hashing algorithm and better resistance to brute-force attacks. Commit 0ffd0e5ee9a93e45f48b030b4bf7c71cb513f595.