* extract database from av-store itself

* generalize approval-voting over database type

* modes (without handling) and pruning old wakeups

* rework approval importing

* add our_approval_sig to ApprovalEntry

* import assignment

* guide updates for check-full-approval changes

* some aux functions

* send messages when becoming active.

* guide: network bridge sends view updates only when done syncing

* network bridge: send view updates only when done syncing

* tests for new network-bridge behavior

* add a test for updating approval entry with sig

* fix some warnings

* test load-all-blocks

* instantiate new parachains DB

* fix network-bridge empty view updates

* tweak

* fix wasm build, i think

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/lib.rs

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* add some versioning to parachains_db

* warnings

* fix merge changes

* remove versioning again

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* guide updates

* keep interactions alive until receivers drop

* retry indefinitely

* cancel approval tasks on finality

* use swap_remove instead of remove

* reduce signal channel capacity

* more tracing for approval-voting

* Remove stuff out of the runtime that does not belong there.

There might be more, but it is a start.

* White space fixes.

* Fix tests.

* Leave whitespace in ui tests alone.

* Add back zstd for no reason.

* Fix browser wasm (hopefully)

* overseer: pass messages directly between subsystems

* test that message is held on to

* Update node/overseer/src/lib.rs

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* give every subsystem an unbounded sender too

* remove metered_channel::name

1. we don't provide good names
2. these names are never used anywhere

* unused mut

* remove unnecessary &mut

* subsystem unbounded_send

* remove unused MaybeTimer

We have channel size metrics that serve the same purpose better now and the implementation of message timing was pretty ugly.

* remove comment

* split up senders and receivers

* update metrics

* fix tests

* fix test subsystem context

* use SubsystemSender in jobs system now

* refactor of awful jobs code

* expose public `run` on JobSubsystem

* update candidate backing to new jobs & use unbounded

* bitfield signing

* candidate-selection

* provisioner

* approval voting: send unbounded for assignment/approvals

* async not needed

* begin bridge split

* split up network tasks into background worker

* port over network bridge

* Update node/network/bridge/src/lib.rs

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* rename ValidationWorkerNotifications

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Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* approval-voting: more spans and metrics

* s/db/approval db

* add consensus log type

* origin and issue force_approve

* add origin in runtimes

* ref API

* scrape force_approve digest from header

* add parent_hash to BlockEntry

* add block_number to block entry and force_approve skeleton

* implement and plug in force-approve

* test force_approve

* test force_approve extraction

* westend runtime

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/approval_db/v1/mod.rs

Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

* rename

* Update runtime/parachains/src/initializer.rs

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Co-authored-by: André Silva <[email protected]>

* add number to `ActivatedLeavesUpdate`

* update subsystem util and overseer

* use new ActivatedLeaf everywhere

* sort view

* sorted and limited view in network bridge

* use live block hash only if it's newer

* grumples

* f+1 always approves

* guide

* grumbles

* grumbles

* fix test

* fix tests

* Update roadmap/implementers-guide/src/node/approval/approval-voting.md

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* improve tracing for approval voting

* assignment criteria tracing

* new syntax

* more approval voting instrumentation

* fix `unapproved_candidates`

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/lib.rs

Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

* some more metrics for approval voting

* fix tests

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* more tracing for av-store

* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update node/core/av-store/src/lib.rs

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* Update tracing everywhere

* Fix build

* More fixes

* Push cargo.lock

* Update

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Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

* make approval voting resilient to dropped requests

* some more

* skip whole chain if encountering spurious error

* prefix parachain log targets with parachain::

* even more consistent

* Add a config field to babe epochs

* Fix test

* Add BABE_GENESIS_EPOCH_CONFIG consts

* Use PrimaryAndSecondaryVRFSlots and remove newlines

* Make epoch_configs Some

* Fix tests

* Fix test service tests

* Add a BabeEpochConfigMigrations OnRuntimeUpgrade

* Apply suggestions

* Use PrimaryAndSecondaryPlainSlots in kusama

* Remove migration from test runtime and rococo

* Add HasPalletPrefix

* Rename to BabePalletPrefix and change BabeApi -> Babe

* "Update Substrate"

* Update substrate

* Resolve parantheses errors

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* approval-voting metrics

* metric: approvals produced

* add a magic number to backing statements encoded

* fix fallout in statement table

* fix some fallout in backing

* add magic to approval votes

* remove last references to Candidate variant

* update size-hint

* WIP

* availability distribution, still very wip.

Work on the requesting side of things.

* Some docs on what I intend to do.

* Checkpoint of session cache implementation

as I will likely replace it with something smarter.

* More work, mostly on cache

and getting things to type check.

* Only derive MallocSizeOf and Debug for std.

* availability-distribution: Cache feature complete.

* Sketch out logic in `FetchTask` for actual fetching.

- Compile fixes.
- Cleanup.

* Format cleanup.

* More format fixes.

* Almost feature complete `fetch_task`.

Missing:

- Check for cancel
- Actual querying of peer ids.

* Finish FetchTask so far.

* Directly use AuthorityDiscoveryId in protocol and cache.

* Resolve `AuthorityDiscoveryId` on sending requests.

* Rework fetch_task

- also make it impossible to check the wrong chunk index.
- Export needed function in validator_discovery.

* From<u32> implementation for `ValidatorIndex`.

* Fixes and more integration work.

* Make session cache proper lru cache.

* Use proper lru cache.

* Requester finished.

* ProtocolState -> Requester

Also make sure to not fetch our own chunk.

* Cleanup + fixes.

* Remove unused functions

- FetchTask::is_finished
- SessionCache::fetch_session_info

* availability-distribution responding side.

* Cleanup + Fixes.

* More fixes.

* More fixes.

adder-collator is running!

* Some docs.

* Docs.

* Fix reporting of bad guys.

* Fix tests

* Make all tests compile.

* Fix test.

* Cleanup + get rid of some warnings.

* state -> requester

* Mostly doc fixes.

* Fix test suite.

* Get rid of now redundant message types.

* WIP

* Rob's review remarks.

* Fix test suite.

* core.relay_parent -> leaf for session request.

* Style fix.

* Decrease request timeout.

* Cleanup obsolete errors.

* Metrics + don't fail on non fatal errors.

* requester.rs -> requester/mod.rs

* Panic on invalid BadValidator report.

* Fix indentation.

* Use typed default timeout constant.

* Make channel size 0, as each sender gets one slot anyways.

* Fix incorrect metrics initialization.

* Fix build after merge.

* More fixes.

* Hopefully valid metrics names.

* Better metrics names.

* Some tests that already work.

* Slightly better docs.

* Some more tests.

* Fix network bridge test.

* some initial spans for approval voting

* add stage earlier

* add tracing to approval voting

* notify if session info is not working

* add dispute period to chain specs

* propagate genesis session to parachains runtime

* use `on_genesis_session`

* protect against zero cores in computation

* tweak voting rule to be based off of best and add logs

* genesis configuration should use VRF slots only

* swallow more keystore errors

* add some docs

* make validation-worker args non-optional and update clap

* better tracing for bitfield signing and provisioner

* pass amount of bits in bitfields to inclusion instead of recomputing

* debug -> warn for some logs

* better tracing for availability recovery

* a little av-store tracing

* bridge: forward availability recovery messages

* add missing try_from impl

* some more tracing

* improve approval distribution tracing

* guide: hold onto pending approval messages until NewBlocks

* Hold onto pending approval messages until NewBlocks

* guide: adjust comment

* process all actions for one wakeup at a time

* vec

* fix network bridge test

* replace randomness-collective-flip with Babe

* remove PairNotFound

* Substrate companion for #8163

https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/8163

* "Update Substrate"

Co-authored-by: parity-processbot <>

* Use KeyValueDB in approval-voting

* use KVDB instead of AuxStore

* add rocksdb to cargo toml

* add a Config struct

* create new DB in service

* fix dep for regular node

* make optional

* post merge fix

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* guide changes for a fast-path requesting from backing validators

* add backing group to availability recovery message

* add new phase to interaction

* typos

* add full data messages

* handle new network messages

* dispatch full data requests

* cleanup

* check chunk index

* test for invalid recovery

* tests

* Typos.

* fix some grumbles

* be more explicit about error handling and control flow

* fast-path param

* use with_chunks_only in Service

Co-authored-by: Robert Klotzner <[email protected]>

* insta-approval for low-node testnets

* fix

* handle 0 needed_approvals and add some logs

* downgrade logs to debug, per block

* fix a warning

* more useful logs

* test

* finish test 🎉

* not so fast

* the test passes, but is it enough?

* tests: use future::join

* fix panic in cache_session_info_for_head

* fix test assertion

* fix infinite loop in determine_new_blocks

* fix ordering in determine_new_blocks

* fix expected ancestry in tests

* integrate approval voting into overseer

* expose public API and make keystore arc

* integrate overseer in service

* guide: `ApprovedAncestor` returns block number

* return block number along with hash from ApprovedAncestor

* introduce a voting rule for reporting on approval checking

* integrate the delay voting rule

* Rococo configuration

* fix compilation and add slack

* fix web-wasm build

* tweak parameterization

* migrate voting rules to asycn

* remove hack comment

* skeleton

* skeleton aux-schema module

* start approval types

* start aux schema with aux store

* doc

* finish basic types

* start approval types

* doc

* finish basic types

* write out schema types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

also add some key computation

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* getters for block and candidate entries

* grumbles

* remove unused AssignmentId

* load_decode utility

* implement DB clearing

* function for adding new block entry to aux store

* start `canonicalize` implementation

* more skeleton

* finish implementing canonicalize

* tag TODO

* implement a test AuxStore

* add allow(unused)

* basic loading and deleting test

* block_entry test function

* add a test for `add_block_entry`

* ensure range is exclusive at end

* test clear()

* test that add_block sets children

* add a test for canonicalize

* extract Pre-digest from header

* utilities for extracting RelayVRFStory from the header-chain

* add approval voting message types

* approval distribution message type

* subsystem skeleton

* state struct

* add futures-timer

* prepare service for babe slot duration

* more skeleton

* better integrate AuxStore

* RelayVRF -> RelayVRFStory

* canonicalize

* implement some tick functionality

* guide: tweaks

* check_approval

* more tweaks and helpers

* guide: add core index to candidate event

* primitives: add core index to candidate event

* runtime: add core index to candidate events

* head handling (session window)

* implement `determine_new_blocks`

* add TODO

* change error type on functions

* compute RelayVRFModulo assignments

* compute RelayVRFDelay assignments

* fix delay tranche calc

* assignment checking

* pluralize

* some dummy code for fetching assignments

* guide: add babe epoch runtime API

* implement a current_epoch() runtime API

* compute assignments

* candidate events get backing group

* import blocks and assignments into DB

* push block approval meta

* add message types, no overseer integration yet

* notify approval distribution of new blocks

* refactor import into separate functions

* impl tranches_to_approve

* guide: improve function signatures

* guide: remove Tick from ApprovalEntry

* trigger and broadcast assignment

* most of approval launching

* remove byteorder crate

* load blocks back to finality, except on startup

* check unchecked assignments

* add claimed core to approval voting message

* fix checks

* assign only to backing group

* remove import_checked_assignment from guide

* newline

* import assignments

* abstract out a bit

* check and import approvals

* check full approvals from assignment import too

* comment

* create a Transaction utility

* must_use

* use transaction in `check_full_approvals`

* wire up wakeups

* add Ord to CandidateHash

* wakeup refactoring

* return candidate info from add_block_entry

* schedule wakeups

* background task: do candidate validation

* forward candidate validation requests

* issue approval votes when requested

* clean up a couple TODOs

* fix up session caching

* clean up last unimplemented!() items

* fix remaining warnings

* remove TODO

* implement handle_approved_ancestor

* update Cargo.lock

* fix runtime API tests

* guide: cleanup assignment checking

* use claimed candidate index instead of core

* extract time to a trait

* tests module

* write a mock clock for testing

* allow swapping out the clock

* make abstract over assignment criteria

* add some skeleton tests and simplify params

* fix backing group check

* do backing group check inside check_assignment_cert

* write some empty test functions to implement

* add a test for non-backing

* test that produced checks pass

* some empty test ideas

* runtime/inclusion: remove outdated TODO

* fix compilation

* av-store: fix tests

* dummy cert

* criteria tests

* move `TestStore` to main tests file

* fix unused warning

* test harness beginnings

* resolve slots renaming fallout

* more compilation fixes

* wip: extract pure data into a separate module

* wip: extract pure data into a separate module

* move types completely to v1

* add persisted_entries

* add conversion trait impls

* clean up some warnings

* extract import logic to own module

* schedule wakeups

* experiment with Actions

* uncomment approval-checking

* separate module for approval checking utilities

* port more code to use actions

* get approval pipeline using actions

* all logic is uncommented

* main loop processes actions

* all loop logic uncommented

* separate function for handling actions

* remove last unimplemented item

* clean up warnings

* State gives read-only access to underlying DB

* tests for approval checking

* tests for approval criteria

* skeleton test module for import

* list of import tests to do

* some test glue code

* test reject bad assignment

* test slot too far in future

* test reject assignment with unknown candidate

* remove loads_blocks tests

* determine_new_blocks back to finalized & harness

* more coverage for determining new blocks

* make `imported_block_info` have less reliance on State

* candidate_info tests

* tests for session caching

* remove println

* extricate DB and main TestStores

* rewrite approval checking logic to counteract early delays

* move state out of function

* update approval-checking tests

* tweak wakeups & scheduling logic

* rename check_full_approvals

* test that assignment import updates candidate

* some approval import tests

* some tests for check_and_apply_approval

* add 'full' qualifier to avoid confusion

* extract should-trigger logic to separate function

* some tests for all triggering

* tests for when we trigger assignments

* test wakeups

* add block utilities for testing

* some more tests for approval updates

* approved_ancestor tests

* new action type for launch approval

* process-wakeup tests

* clean up some warnings

* fix in_future test

* approval checking tests

* tighten up too-far-in-future

* special-case genesis when caching sessions

* fix bitfield len

Co-authored-by: Andronik Ordian <[email protected]>

* upgrade codec and bitvec

* "Update Substrate"

Co-authored-by: parity-processbot <>

* Companion for #7997

https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7997



* rename slot_number to slot

* rename SlotNumber type in overseer docs

* "Update Substrate"

Co-authored-by: André Silva <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: parity-processbot <>

* skeleton

* skeleton aux-schema module

* start approval types

* start aux schema with aux store

* doc

* finish basic types

* start approval types

* doc

* finish basic types

* write out schema types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

also add some key computation

* add debug and codec impls to approval types

* getters for block and candidate entries

* grumbles

* remove unused AssignmentId

* load_decode utility

* implement DB clearing

* function for adding new block entry to aux store

* start `canonicalize` implementation

* more skeleton

* finish implementing canonicalize

* tag TODO

* implement a test AuxStore

* add allow(unused)

* basic loading and deleting test

* block_entry test function

* add a test for `add_block_entry`

* ensure range is exclusive at end

* test clear()

* test that add_block sets children

* add a test for canonicalize

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/mod.rs

Co-authored-by: Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus <[email protected]>

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/tests.rs

Co-authored-by: Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus <[email protected]>

* Update node/core/approval-voting/src/aux_schema/mod.rs

Co-authored-by: Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus <[email protected]>