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Steve Funk, Head of SupportDevelopment update for the week of November 18th: 1 Nebulous repo was updated. 7 issues were created, 3 were closed. 2 MRs were merged. GitLab user ChrisSchinnerl had code contributions merged into Sia. Users starius, geo-gs, pachisi456, MSevey, lukechampine and DavidVorick also had work-in-progress contributions. The US celebrated Thanksgiving this week, and we hope you had a great holiday if you partake. Despite the abbreviated week, there was still significant progress made by the core team and community contributors. Community contributor pachisi456 proposed an ambitious feature that creates different profiles on the hosts database, allowing the renter to select hosts according to their storage needs gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3334 ChrisSchinnerl is working on improvements to the upload speeds of renters with multiple TB of data being stored. gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/merge_requests/3337/diffs Chris and Matt are working on improvements to the management of the new Sia files, that will represent the cornerstone of the upcoming 1.4.0 update: better management of these files between the hard drive and RAM memory, what will reduce the impact on the memory of the system, and the ability of snapshotting these files.
