fbarbu15 · Oct 6, 2026 · Oct 6, 2026 · Oct 6, 2026
diff --git a/content/bi/keycard/2026q4-keycard-continuous-monitoring.md b/content/bi/keycard/2026q4-keycard-continuous-monitoring.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Improve the existing dashboard to monitore Keycard key indicators
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:bi:keycard:2026q4-keycard-continuous-monitoring`
 * owner: claire
-* status: not started
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 * issue: -

diff --git a/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-circle-crm-upgrade.md b/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-circle-crm-upgrade.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Upgrade the CRM of Logos Circle
 ### Logos Circle CRM upgrade
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q4-logos-circle-crm-upgrade`
-* owner: tdb
-* status: not started
+* owner: alexis
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 * issue: -

diff --git a/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-communication-funnel.md b/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-communication-funnel.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Make a Dashboard for the Communication Funnel
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q4-logos-communication-funnel`
 * owner: Alexis, Nikolay
-* status: not started
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 * issue: -

diff --git a/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-improve-testnet-monitoring.md b/content/bi/logos/2026q4-logos-improve-testnet-monitoring.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Improve the Logos Testnet current Monitoring
 ### Improve Tetnet Monitoring
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:bi:logos:2026q4-logos-improve-testnet-monitoring`
-* owner: tdb
-* status: not started
+* owner: alexis
+* status: in progress (25%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 * issue: -
@@ -31,5 +31,4 @@ Improve the Logos Testnet current Monitoring
 Improve the Logos Testnet current Monitoring
 
 #### Deliverables
-
-Upgrade Dashboard
+- Built the first version of the [Logos testnet dashboard](https://superset.bi.status.im/superset/dashboard/158/?native_filters_key=0zLwmtF7pzQ).
diff --git a/content/bi/status/2026q4-status-engagement-bot-upgrade.md b/content/bi/status/2026q4-status-engagement-bot-upgrade.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Upgrade Status Engagmement Bot with various Language support
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:bi:status:2026q4-status-engagement-bot-upgrade`
 * owner: alexis
-* status: not started
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 * issue: -

diff --git a/content/dst/ift/2026q4-dst-tooling.md b/content/dst/ift/2026q4-dst-tooling.md
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ adversarial conditions and control message behavior.
 ### General tooling (recurring)
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:ift:2026q4-dst-tooling:general-tooling`
-* owner: TBD
-* status: not started
+* owner: Alberto/Alan
+* status: in progress (25%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -46,5 +46,7 @@ Should be made general when possible.
 
 #### Deliverables
 - Code:
+    - [iftech/roadmap#530](https://github.com/iftech/roadmap/pull/530) chore(DST): q4 commitments
+    - [iftech/10ksim#391](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/391) Scrape metrics and draw the standard plots in post-run analysis
 - Reports:
 - Other:
diff --git a/content/dst/ift/2026q4-libp2p-evaluation.md b/content/dst/ift/2026q4-libp2p-evaluation.md
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ work and improvements, and it is subjected to change.
 ### Regression testing (recurring)
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:ift:2026q4-libp2p-evaluation:regression-testing`
-* owner: TBD
-* status: not started
+* owner: Alan
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ and ensure they don't happen again.
 #### Deliverables
 
 - Code:
+    - [iftech/10ksim#418](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/418) Connection cap and bootstrap image options for the nim-libp2p nodes
 - 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).
 
 
 ### Interop at scale

diff --git a/content/dst/logos/2026q4-messaging-evaluation.md b/content/dst/logos/2026q4-messaging-evaluation.md
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Do this monthly, reliably, with documentation of findings.
 ### Regression testing (recurring)
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:logos:2026q4-messaging-evaluation:regression-testing`
-* owner: TBD
-* status: not started
+* owner: Alan
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ and ensure they don't happen again.
 
 #### Deliverables
 - Code:
+    - [iftech/10ksim#415](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/415) Full logos delivery experiment
+    - [iftech/10ksim#416](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/416) Subscribe the filter clients in full logos delivery and keep them subscribed
+    - [iftech/10ksim#417](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/417) Check each store node's archive in full logos delivery
+    - [iftech/10ksim#411](https://github.com/iftech/10ksim/pull/411) Delivery latency per path and resources per node type for logos delivery runs
 - Reports:
+    - Completed a full relay, lightpush, filter, and store run for [Logos Messaging PR 4347](https://app.notion.com/p/3ea8f96fb65c812a9ae2dc71ef28860e).
 
 
 ### load metric

diff --git a/content/dst/status/2026q4-status-evaluation.md b/content/dst/status/2026q4-status-evaluation.md
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ TBD
 ### Reliability
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:dst:status:2026q4-status-evaluation:reliability`
-* owner: TBD
-* status: not started
+* owner: Alberto
+* status: in progress (25%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Compare results with old status-go.
 
 #### Deliverables
 - Github PRs:
+    - Rebuilt Status develop commit `6fbaa6af0ee90100c93380f3b04fdd57433cd273` as a Docker image.
+    - Adapted and redeployed Status benchmark utilities in the lab.
 - Documents:
 
 ### Logos delivery integration

diff --git a/content/monthly/2026-09.md b/content/monthly/2026-09.md
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+---
+title: 2026-09 Vac monthly
+tags:
+  - vac-monthly
+date: 2026-09-30
+draft: false
+---
+
+### BI
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Prepared automatic Keycard reporting and updated the report for monthly use.
+- Updated log extraction for Logos Blockchain monitoring.
+- Extracted LEZ monitoring data and advanced its testnet dashboard.
+- Built the first version of the Logos testnet dashboard.
+- Completed weekly reporting from Logos Blockchain, Storage, and Delivery logs.
+- Set up production Circle CRM and presented it to the Logos Movement team.
+- Worked on Circle CRM email issues.
+- Started the Logos website analytics dashboard.
+- Created the initial Logos communication funnel dashboard and continued its development.
+- Fixed Status Engagement Bot bugs and prepared it for production.
+- Advanced the Hermes connection and researched language support for the Status Engagement Bot.
+
+### DST
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Rebuilt nim-libp2p regression nodes with reproducible builds and updated lockfiles.
+- Investigated anoncomms service-discovery issues; one newly identified issue was fixed.
+- Restored Blend traces in Tempo and started its benchmarking experiment and analyzer.
+- Moved VacLab system workloads to metal-01 after reducing CPU reservations.
+- Completed a Logos Delivery packet-loss study and identified a crash at 1,000 nodes; an upstream fix landed.
+- Added packet-loss controls and updated message-delivery log parsing.
+- Tested full Logos Delivery through relay, lightpush, filter, and store, including archive checks.
+- Investigated nim-libp2p mesh formation and confirmed that Kademlia bucket rotation fixed slow formation.
+- Built and ran a 1,000-node network-partition scenario that splits and heals a formed network.
+- Added automatic metric collection and standard plots to post-run analysis.
+- Enabled rerunning post-run analysis from a completed experiment's folder.
+- Adapted Status benchmarks and lab utilities to the latest Logos Delivery node.
+
+### Infra
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Upgraded the Rocketpool oDAO node to release 1.22.1.
+- Migrated four Lido hosts to TYO2 and deployed new validator keys.
+- Submitted the first batch of Lido validator consolidations from Community Module v1 to v2.
+- Added process locking to Nimbus beacon nodes and validator clients.
+- Re-imported Hoodi ERE files and deployed a Sepolia light client for nimbus-eth1.
+- Upgraded LEZ deployments to 0.3.0 and Logos modules for the new devnet and testnet releases.
+- Fixed Logos Basecamp uploads and the module-release signing extension check.
+- Moved Logos Modules index rebuilding to GitHub Actions, retaining builds and signing in Jenkins.
+- Merged the Status-app Linux Nix shell and fixed status-go build-cache collisions.
+- Reduced Status database host sizes to lower costs.
+- Rebuilt compromised macOS CI hosts, published the incident report, and deployed Wazuh monitoring.
+- Completed Elasticsearch transport security and upgraded Discourse forums to address known vulnerabilities.
+- Deployed Thanos metrics hosts and Determinate Systems Nix to the Develp HQ fleet.
+- Completed the first stage of Vault cluster upgrades to 1.21.4.
+- Restored the unavailable Status website on Sunday.
+
+### Nim
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Released Nimble 0.26.0 with dependency-resolution and offline-refresh fixes.
+- Fixed Nimble locked-package URLs, dependency locks, downloads, and checksum handling.
+- Added PubGrub explanations for failed Nimble dependency resolution.
+- Fixed Nimble named-package version resolution and documented lockfile use.
+- Advanced Setup Nimble Action release work.
+- Added Chronos Win32 CI and fixed Windows i386 calling-convention errors.
+- Fixed a Chronos hang while waiting for child processes on Windows.
+- Enabled garbage-collected task results in nim-taskpools.
+- Fixed Nim network sends that could corrupt data or loop after disconnects.
+- Merged the Nim book into the development branch and presented it at the Townhall.
+- Updated Nim Docker images to 2.2.12.
+- Added nimlangserver regression tests and automated macOS and Windows checks.
+- Added Nim language-server memory limits and a runtime flag to cap Nimsuggest memory use.
+- Added JSON-RPC stdio and pipes transports and connection error reporting.
+- Updated language-server CI for Apple Silicon and Setup Nimble Action v2.
+
+### P2P
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Released nim-libp2p 2.3.6 and 2.4.0.
+- Released Logos libp2p module 1.1.0 as part of anoncomms networking integration.
+- Added standalone Mix intermediates with shared RLN proofs and simplified Mix routing.
+- Integrated Delivery-based RLN coordination into Mix-RLN components.
+- Added dialing backoffs and connection ranking by relay use and transport.
+- Standardized nim-libp2p logs, hid sensitive data, and reduced repeated messages.
+- Exposed QUIC engine configuration through nim-lsquic and nim-libp2p.
+- Improved error handling through nim-libp2p protocols, transports, and connection management.
+- Fixed Kademlia liveness loops and repeated bootstrap attempts to unreachable peers.
+- Added a Logos libp2p module operation to wait for DHT bootstrap completion.
+- Fixed service-discovery cache handling and made Kademlia bootstrap non-blocking.
+- Reduced nim-ffi CI from 104 jobs to 29 and advanced generated Logos Storage bindings.
+- Hardened AutoTLS startup, certificate handling, and reachability notifications.
+- Updated Nim FFI request allocation and sanitizer configuration for Logos Delivery.
+
+### QA
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Expanded Logos Basecamp MCP coverage for workspaces, app management, search, dialogs, and inspector behavior.
+- Manually tested Logos Basecamp v0.3.0_rc2 and shared six comments with developers.
+- Advanced LEZ sequencer-registration scenarios and chained-caller test prerequisites.
+- Updated LEZ fuzzing for account shards and native transfers, with automatic weekly corpus updates.
+- Delivered LEZ Atomic Swaps compliance and test-coverage reports for v0.2.4 and v0.2.5.
+- Added Bork workflows for specification and milestone test-coverage audits.
+- Migrated Logos Delivery interoperability tests and submitted nightly integration for Status.
+- Improved Logos Delivery CI caching and replaced fixed test sleeps with condition-based waits.
+- Expanded AutoTLS integration coverage and fixed ACME requests.
+- Expanded Status Desktop Keycard signing, recovery, PIN blocking, reset, and WalletConnect coverage.
+- Measured Status Desktop message delivery and fresh-profile data consumption, and reported a crash.
+- Expanded status-go Keycard functional tests and community message-delivery regression coverage.
+- Added Status Mobile messaging tests using one phone and a backend peer.
+- Found an Android chat-opening failure and restored Android performance runs with published RC7 measurements.
+- Reported a Status wallet race condition that can leave the token list empty or loading.
+
+### Security
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Closed the DPRK supply-chain incident and the macOS CI mining incident after recovery and verification.
+- Reviewed vulnerable-dependency, code-scanning, and exposed-secret alerts.
+- Reported LEZ audit findings, including high-severity issues, and retested fixes.
+- Triaged audit findings and confirmed remediation of a high-severity replica hang.
+- Wrote an LEZ AMM threat model and continued reviewing AMM programs.
+- Started the LEZ Atomic Swaps review and drafted its audit report.
+- Reported Logos Blockchain findings and scoped its external audit.
+- Reviewed Status WalletConnect, Keycard, biometric signing, downloads, and CI changes.
+- Raised the Status keystore derivation downgrade and handling of existing keystores during security review.
+- Confirmed Status bug-bounty fix deployments and closed the associated bounties.
+- Completed treasury wallet reconciliation and updated incident runbooks.
+- Onboarded backup treasury signatories and completed a runbook dry run.
+- Revalidated departed contributors' access across collaboration, automation, and credential systems.
+
+### TKE
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Developed the Logos token buyback-and-make model and wrote its explainer and FAQs.
+- Polished the proof-of-work rewards analysis, created its specification PR, and addressed feedback.
+- Finalized validator-economics documentation after review feedback.
+- Completed another round of DSE revisions.
+- Clarified token allocation documentation and discussed decisions with Finance.
+- Reviewed token-sale research and vesting, and addressed feedback.
+- Reviewed the Keycard SNT incentives proposal and built a dashboard.
+- Reviewed node-program reward calculations and discussed the design with Legal.
+- Applied LEZ sequencer-economics fixes and addressed discussion feedback.
+- Wrote a liquid-staking prioritization report and continued the analysis.
+- Analyzed Penumbra and its potential application to Logos Blockchain.
+- Completed a document on mechanisms connecting culture and economics.
+- Explored EcoDev B2B opportunities using the earlier brief as a case study.
+- Researched the ecosystem liquidity problem and reviewed the initial document.
+
+### Web
+
+#### highlights
+
+- Published Status Wallet Extension 0.1.3 and updated 0.1.4 to fix missing UNI token icons.
+- Made all 582 Status blog posts reachable through server-rendered archive links.
+- Fixed Logos website indexing, robots rules, canonical URLs, and metadata gaps.
+- Completed the Field Station residency page with application links, partner details, and accessibility fixes.
+- Shipped the PriFi page and added links throughout the Logos website.
+- Added Life's Choices, Mike, and Amanda experiences to Past Present Future.
+- Moved Past Present Future into a SvelteKit app with reproducible builds.
+- Completed the Logos media migration with archive navigation and podcast feeds.
+- Completed the CMS publishing workflow for development and production.
+- Merged and tested Logos funnel uploads and email triggers, then migrated forms to the new API.
+- Added monitoring for 21 external Status services and API providers in seven regions.
+- Published Logos Testnet v0.3 launch information, FAQs, terms, and privacy policies.
+- Updated automatic Basecamp downloads to version 0.3.1.
+- Updated Keycard documentation to Node.js 24.
+- Introduced AI documentation synchronization and enabled shared AI review workflows for website pull requests.
diff --git a/content/nim/ift/2026q1-nim-core-libs.md b/content/nim/ift/2026q1-nim-core-libs.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ These enhancements will enable JSON-RPC to be used efficiently for cross-thread
 ### Maintenance
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:maintenance`
-* owner: Constantine
+* owner: Constantine/Nitely/Juan
 * status: done
 * start-date: 2026/01/01
 * end-date: 2026/03/31

diff --git a/content/nim/ift/2026q2-nim-core-libs.md b/content/nim/ift/2026q2-nim-core-libs.md
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Maintain and extend the foundational Nim libraries required by IFT teams.
 ### Maintenance
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q2-nim-core-libs:maintenance`
-* owner: Constantine
+* owner: Constantine/Nitely/Juan
 * status: in progress (50%)
 * start-date: 2026/04/01
 * end-date: 2026/06/30

diff --git a/content/nim/ift/2026q3-nim-core-libs.md b/content/nim/ift/2026q3-nim-core-libs.md
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Maintain and extend the foundational Nim libraries required by IFT teams.
 ### Maintenance
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q3-nim-core-libs:maintenance`
-* owner: Constantine
+* owner: Constantine/Nitely/Juan
 * status: done
 * start-date: 2026/07/01
 * end-date: 2026/09/29

diff --git a/content/nim/ift/2026q4-nim-core-libs.md b/content/nim/ift/2026q4-nim-core-libs.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Improve documentation tooling where it helps keep package documentation accurate
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q4-nim-core-libs:maintenance`
 * owner: Constantine
-* status: not started
+* status: in progress (10%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -53,12 +53,13 @@ Triage issues, address regressions and compatibility problems, support downstrea
 
 - PRs fixing library defects and maintaining compatibility, tests, and CI.
 - Tracked issues and verification results for downstream integration problems.
+- [nim-lang/Nim#26281](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/26281) Feature: Control Nimsuggest's memory consumption cap with runtime flag
 
 ### Nimlangserver improvements
 
 * fully qualified name: `ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q4-nim-core-libs:nimlangserver`
-* owner: TBD
-* status: not started
+* owner: Juan/Esteban/Constantine
+* status: in progress (25%)
 * start-date: 2026/10/01
 * end-date: 2026/12/31
 
@@ -81,6 +82,15 @@ Use the nim-web3 approach as the model for the LSP implementation:
 - PRs integrating selected NimTortoise fixes and improvements into mainstream nimlangserver after coordination with Esteban's rewrite.
 - An LSP JSON serialization flavor and Nim protocol objects for the currently used messages and structures.
 - Regression and serialization tests, plus guidance for adding further protocol objects.
+- [nim-lang/langserver#484](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/484) Run macOS CI on Apple Silicon (macos-latest)
+- [nim-lang/langserver#483](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/483) bumps setup-nimble-action from v1 to v2
+- [nim-lang/langserver#482](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/482) Build macOS amd64 binary with an explicit x86_64 target
+- [nim-lang/langserver#448](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/448) Avoid some dangling nimsuggests
+- [status-im/nim-json-rpc#300](https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-rpc/pull/300) Add `lastError` to `RpcConnection`
+- [status-im/nim-json-rpc#302](https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-rpc/pull/302) Pipes transport
+- [status-im/nim-json-rpc#296](https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-rpc/pull/296) Stdio transport
+- [nim-lang/langserver#454](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/454) Docs: Explain multi-entry-point project mapping
+- [nim-lang/langserver#479](https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/479) Add nimsuggestMaxMemory config value to complement nimsuggest's new `--maxMemory` option.
 
 ### Nimlangserver and nimsuggest support for IFT projects