# QRL Weekly, 2023-August-01

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Published: 2023-08-01
Updated: 2023-08-01



Author: The QRL Core Contributors
















Weekly Dev Snapshot QRL Node v4.0.3 New version is released which fixes a bug with a wallet daemon throwing error while converting non utf-8 data to string will now try to convert the data into hex string
To update, visit our node update guide.
Note: Only required to update if you’re calling the get_block function from the wallet daemon
QRL: New Richlist Implementation of richlist-api middleware between indexer and user-facing applications including export of data as CSV for all non-zero balance addresses Added richlist to mainnet explorer & release of explorer 1.4.0 QRL Zond (Proof-of-Stake + Smart contracts) Refactoring & Bug fixes for the Zond consensus engine Update Zond execution engine to process the blocks received from the Zond consensus engine Tested Staking upto 1300 blocks, currently the memory issue fix is in progress Implementation of qrl-rich-list-indexer that index rich list from the QRL Python chain to the MongoDB Bug fixes for the qrl-token-indexer Quantum News