Primary goals:

• e2e testing of attachments. (moz:2.3) #8941 (closed)
• integration with platform (update debian packages, ensure backups, monitoring etc) (moz:2.1) #8818 (closed) #8866 (closed) (little bit moved to cycle 6)
• profile write and read speed for the current client sqlcipher blob backend (moz:3.2) #8942 (closed)
• Implement the retry specification (moz:2.3 <-- this means all 2.3 activities) #8822 (closed) #8940 (closed) #8932 (closed) #8825 (closed) #8821 (closed) #8690 #8691 (closed) #8924 (closed) (review/merge moved to cycle 6)

The following were originally scoped to this cycle, but in the end were moved to next cicle:

• Simple app that exercises blobs and documents how to use soledad from developer perspective. (1 week - hello world grocery list) (moz:2.1 - documentation) #8943
• start mail/bitmask integration discussion and see which parts of it goes into cycle 5 (moz:2.1) #8848 (closed)
• streaming of encryption and decryption (leveraging sqlite blob api) #8809 (closed) #8810 (closed) (moz:3.2)