Summarized from Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness announcement:
- The unique model of SegWit was carried out in April by means of June 2015 for the Components Undertaking. It has facilitated each transaction on the Components-based sidechains since then.
- The brand new softfork-variant of SegWit moved to the multi-user testing stage in December 2015 by activating on the SegNet, a devoted testnet.
- A pull-request was submitted in April 2016 to Bitcoin Core for overview.
- Since Might 2016 SegWit was enabled on the common testnet facilitating exams in a blended setting with non-upgraded wallets.
- At a gathering of twenty Bitcoin Core builders in Might 2016 an in-person overview of SegWit’s code and check protection was carried out.
- An up to date model constructing on the present state of Bitcoin Core’s improvement was supplied for remaining overview in June 2016.
Altogether, the idea has been in improvement for fourteen months, and variants of SegWit have been in manufacturing and community testing for a 12 months. The Bitcoin model has been rigorously examined for over six months. It acquired remaining overview approval as we speak and was merged to Bitcoin Core’s grasp department.
In any case testing is efficiently concluded, a launch candidate together with Segregated Witness will likely be launched for broader testing by all kinds of customers. As soon as a launch candidate with out recognized points is discovered, it is going to be launched and made prepared for signaling.
