Hello again, and as usual, later than expected.
The reason remains the same as always:
I’ve been busy with Hive, and I’m not great at reporting on it.

<center>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9oDxrgE9f8</center><sup>A new post is a perfect excuse for a new Hive logo reveal video</sup>

# Artificial assistant or not, or not at all?
Maybe I should consider using ChatGPT to process my notes and generate weekly updates?
Unfortunately I’m too concerned about its poor signal-to-noise ratio, and the amount of nonsense it generates without proper fine-tuning.
Babysitting an assistant until he/she/it produces satisfactory results? I don’t have time for that either.
No matter if it’s GPT or DNA based.
[Last time](/@gtg/a-witness-update-sort-of-reflections-on-curation-in-the-ai-era) it worked pretty well... as a harbinger of upcoming challenges, or a slightly more advanced lorem ipsum generator ;-)

https://twitter.com/vzverovich/status/1643248445745164294

# v1.27.4
Most of my nodes are already switched, I still have some backups in case of unexpected. It's an optional upgrade, and requires a replay from scratch (`--force-replay`).
Please note that with this release we are targeting Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. You can, and in many cases you should use docker.

## API node

https://api.openhive.network

It is currently running hived `v1.27.4` and a “legacy” hivemind (i.e. not-haf-based: `v1.26.3` `3ba5511b`)

## Seed node

`gtg.openhive.network:2001`

It is currently running hived `v1.27.4` Hived uses this by default if you don’t override it in your `config.ini` file.

# Downloads
https://gtg.openhive.network no longer supports old, uncompressed `block_log`
(Now both compressed and uncompressed links point to same compressed `block_log` file)

Please remember that you can no longer simply continue downloading `block_log` files starting from a random offset, as was possible for uncompressed ones.
Not a big deal, two use cases are the most common:
You either don’t have a `block_log` and want to get a fresh one (either from my site or just by starting hived to get it via the p2p network)
You have a `block_log` on one of your other hosts, and you don’t really need my site because it’s faster to restore from your own location even if it's slightly older.

## Jump starting Hive services
The idea of downloadable resources is to jump-start your services, and it’s heavily used during new releases and HardForks. For consensus nodes, such as seed nodes, witness nodes, and broadcasters, it’s enough to get a `block_log` and snapshot for exchanges. Do not worry about it containing some tracked accounts within the account history plugin, you can safely comment out unneeded plugins.

Loading account history from my snapshots might not be the best option because, even compressed, it’s huge. Unless you have a really decent download speed (1Gbps+) it might be better to just start a replay, as it should complete within 24 hours or so.

Starting up hivemind is a different story, though, because resync time is significant, and database dump is relatively small. I only provide a dump for “legacy” hivemind, as that’s the version I’m currently running. In the near future I’ll be moving to a HAF based hivemind.

# Other resources
For the sake of decentralization, besides https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive repository hosted by @blocktrades, I’m maintaining organization at GitHub: https://github.com/openhive-network that holds repositories for various Hive related software, you can use it as alternate source ( core repositories are push mirrors from GitLab )
So for example `v1.27.4` release is available here: https://github.com/openhive-network/hive/releases/tag/v1.27.4
And also on Docker Hub https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/hiveio/hive/general

# Core dev meetings
We are using a self hosted open source solution for those meetings ([jitsi](https://jitsi.org/)) which successfully replaced the old proprietary one.

You can listen to recordings on https://www.youtube.com/@Hivenetwork/videos

If you have any questions, feel free to join [#dev chat](https://openhive.chat/channel/dev) (you can log in via hive.blog - that’s a new feature, that some of you might noticed already, but more on that in future posts, as currently tests are in progress)

# Governance
Do you remember that governance votes (for witnesses and proposals) on Hive are expiring if you are not updating them?
Please ~~like and subscribe~~ toss a vote for your witnesses, and review your proposal votes.

# More to come...
There’s a lot going on in various projects with dozens of people involved behind the scenes that deserve their own posts. Better documentation, improved integration of instant messaging, better cli_wallet, public HAF database,  and more.

Soon in your favorite blockchain.

# Questions?