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Service Level Agreements 🤝

In staking tokens and operating a service, you agree to adhere to meeting the Service Level Agreements defined in this document and ratified by the community by vote.

Minimum Version Guarantee​

Audius protocol adheres to semantic versioning. Optional auto-upgrade tooling is provided for discretionary use to make compliance easy. https://github.com/AudiusProject/audius-docker-compose#upgrading

Ratified in governance vote: https://dashboard.audius.org/#/governance/proposal/128

Major & Minor Versions​

  • Monthly cadence and/or upon major functionality changes
  • Changes are ratified by voting on a governance proposal on the Audius ServiceTypeManager smart contract. The governance proposals contains the version name and git commit SHA.
  • Updating is compulsory within 24 hours of the proposal being enacted. Failure to comply will yield a recommendation of slashing 3,000 $AUDIO per service.
  • Auto-update will upgrade service(s) automatically ✨🌈

Patch Versions​

  • Weekly cadence under normal circumstances, priority security vulnerabilities and network halting issues may be published ad-hoc
  • Updating is not compulsory and will not yield slashing recommendation, but is recommended to stay up to date with latest Audius patches, bug-fixes, and product improvements for the benefit of the ecosystem
  • Auto-update will upgrade service(s) automatically ✨🌈