CKB Dev Log 2023-11-01

[anipenguin]

🌼 by @XuJiandong

Updates

Features

• Support CKB2023 load_extension syscall in light client
  • Light client now supports the new load_extension syscall introduced in the ckb2023 hardfork. Allowing clients to verify the extra_hash header field and store extension data when the verification succeeds
  • feat: tweak SendBlocksProof message to support ckb2023 #4185
  • chore: support ckb2023 load_extension syscall ckb-light-client#156
• CKB-Auth: Completed end-to-end testing and provided documentation for Tron.
  • Support Tron ckb-auth#14
• Added Benchmark for ckb-js-vm - execute on-chain smart contracts in JavaScript
  • Add benchmark ckb-js-vm#4

Improvements

• CKB-Auth: Improved recovery processing and test cases
  • Improve the verification of v value in signature ckb-auth#15
• Optimized CKB rocksdb configurations
  • Boosted performance by 6% after adjusting cache settings and implementing a bloom filter.
  • performance: tuning rocksdb bloom filter #4191
• Rebuilt projects in Clang
  • ckb-miscellaneous-scripts Build repo with clang ckb-miscellaneous-scripts#29
  • ckb-lua-vm Support Clang ckb-lua-vm#14

Fixes

• Resolved the issue of long-pending transactions due to the orphan pool
  • Fix orphan pool for long pending tx issues #4199
• Implemented fixes for developer experience
  • chore: Fix macos proxy issue in development env #4205
  • chore: Wrap help message with max width #4204

In Pipeline…

• Preparing for the release of CKB v0.112.0
• Writing a blog post on ckb-js-vm
• Working on a stealth address feature
• Investigating database migration options
• Designing a CKB typed message specification (similar to EIP712)
• Introducing a persistent mmap cache to avoid recalculating the state on each restart
  • WIP: persistence softfork cache #4203
• Addressing memory limitations in CKB-VM
  • WIP: Refactored flexible memory implementation ckb-vm#378
• Enhancing CKB RPC by adding support for JsonSchema, making it easier to validate and work with JSON data.
  • WIP: Add openrpc generator and use JsonSchema to update rpc/readme #4187