CKB Dev Log 2023-09-06

[anipenguin]

Autumn Is Coming 🎵 Row Row Row Your Boat 🎵 - @quake

Updates

Features

• Released CKB v0.110.1, initiating the light client protocol softfork activation on the mainnet.
• Enhanced CKB dummy miner to support mining work notification, enabling simulation of hash rate distribution across multiple nodes for testing purposes.
  • Previously, the dummy miner only submitted blocks at configured intervals, causing issues in multi-node testing scenarios.
  • feat: notify dummy miner for new work #4126
• ckb-auth now supports secp256r1
  • Add secp256r1 support ckb-auth#7
• ckb-std now supports clang as C compiler
  • Add new feature to allow building ckb-std using clang as C compiler ckb-std#67

Fixes

• Merged three minor bug fixes into the ckb develop branch, addressing issues related to the ckb-std library and the spawn syscall.
  • Refactoring of the ckb-std library: fix: ckb-hash feature ckb-contract is invalid #4122
  • Spawn syscall:
    • fix(script/spawn): calucate the correct cycles_base #4123
    • fix(scripts/spawn): always consume extra_cycles #4127

In Pipeline…

• Developing and testing an experimental project to enhance the NAT traversal capability of CKB nodes.
• Benchmarking underway to assess the performance and data storage benefits of keeping only live cell data in the accumulator, based on feedback from the RFC: Cells Commitments [WIP - DO NOT MERGE] rfcs#424 (comment).