Eric Badiere

### Description When running tests in CI sometimes the local node fails to start. It recently happened during the run of the TokenCreate test: ``` Hedera-Local-Node] ERROR (ConnectionService) connect ECONNREFUSED...

### Description The Dapp tests fail intermittently both from the command line and in CI. The latest failed with the following: ``` synpress | Error: bad response (status=400, headers={"access-control-allow-origin":"*","access-control-allow-methods":"GET,HEAD,PUT,POST,DELETE","x-request-id":"56c70ac7-c824-42d1-b5e5-98ad9e119353","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","content-length":"224","date":"Tue,...

### Description The .gitmodules file in the foundry example is causing the docker image build to fail. This is blocking the release. ### Steps to reproduce Run the production release...

### Description There are eth_getLogs errors on mainnet. ### Steps to reproduce Run the following query in the log explorer: ``` resource.type="k8s_container" resource.labels.project_id="hash-io" resource.labels.container_name="hedera-json-rpc-relay" resource.labels.namespace_name="mainnet" textPayload:"eth_getLogs 500 (JSON RPC ERROR)"...

### Description When running the ```acceptancetest:release``` test, an unrelated test set up can fail. This should be fixed before adopting the acceptance tests into any automated hashio deployment process. ```...

### Problem File create and append transactions are costing HBars. Some of these files have the same content. We need logic to hash the file contents into some sort of...

The Proxy Upgrade Test Suite is often flaky causing re-runs, delays and loss of confidence in the tests.

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### Description Some of the failures: ``` 1) @OZERC1967Upgrade Upgradable Vote Tests Proxy Contract tests Should upgrade proxy vote to point to voteV2: AssertionError: expected '0xAdCF464072CD9302d3b5bb05f4eD667Cb59…' to equal '0xa2D861570e6aFBC4e0A2538689CB74ee7eA…' +...

### Problem We have an open zeppelin Governance contract example. Now we need a similar example but with a timelock. ### Solution Copy an enhance the governance contract example to...

### Description When retrieving in smart contracts, not all block properties match what's returned to hardhat. - Retrieving a blockhash through hardhat returns an actual hash value, but returning it...

### Problem Features for 0.53 are not yet deployed ### Solution **Manual release process:** - [x] Create a release/0.53 branch off of main. Ensure github test actions run. Merge Against...