CKB Dev Log 2023-09-20

[anipenguin]

📸 by @eval-exec

Updates

Features

• Released CKB v0.111.0 activating CKB2023 hardfork in the dev chains.
• Introduced new RPC function called generate_epochs , designed to streamline integration testing for applications like DAO.
  • feat(rpc): Introduce the new method generate_epochs in the IntegrationTest module #4128

Improvements

• Added documentation and examples for transaction signer and handler of new lock scripts and custom scripts in:
  • Lumos (JavaScript): docs: improve doc of LockScriptInfo ckb-js/lumos#554
  • Java: docs: document script handler and signer ckb-sdk-java#666
• CKB toolchain in Rust has been upgraded to version 1.71.1 to meet the higher version requirements of some dependencies.
  • Upgrade CKB's rust-toolchain from 1.67.1 to 1.71.1 #4146

In Pipeline…

• Performing CKB-auth end-to-end testing
  • Bitcoin Docs ckb-auth#10
• Working to address memory limitations in ckb-vm
  • Refactored flexible memory implementation ckb-vm#378
• Exploring two directions for enhancing Cells Commitments
  • Streamlining historical record storage methods.
  • Optimizing MMR (Merkle Mountain Range) storage read and write processes.
  • WIP: refactor: implement append-only tree sparse-merkle-tree#47