Summarized from Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness announcement:
- The unique model of SegWit was applied in April via June 2015 for the Components Venture. 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 evaluation.
- Since Could 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 Could 2016 an in-person evaluation of SegWit’s code and take a look at protection was carried out.
- An up to date model constructing on the present state of Bitcoin Core’s improvement was supplied for closing evaluation 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 obtained closing evaluation approval right now and was merged to Bitcoin Core’s grasp department.
In spite of everything testing is efficiently concluded, a launch candidate together with Segregated Witness will probably be launched for broader testing by all sorts of customers. As soon as a launch candidate with out identified points is discovered, it will likely be launched and made prepared for signaling.
