CKB Dev Log 2024-10-30

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Updates

• CKB

  • v0.119.0 Release
    Key feature: Introduces a new chain for previewing the upcoming hardfork, now on the testnet.

• Fiber Network

  Improvements including:

  • Added allow_self_payment for send payment: Add allow_self_payment for send_payment fiber#282
  • Automatic initialization for better dev experience: Initialize automatically for the first time fiber#262
  • Added a check to ensure the CKB amount is within the u64::max range to prevent errors when opening a channel: check CKB amount range when open channel fiber#256

  For more details, check out Fiber’s repo: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/fiber

• CKB-VM

  • Implemented multithreading simulating for a new spawn: Support new spawn ckb-x64-simulator#13
  • Cycle check in fuzz test: Checking cycles in fuzz test ckb-vm#441
  • Allocator fuzz test for ckb-std: Add fuzz test jjyr/buddy-alloc#21

Fixes

• CKB

  • Resolved a panic issue related to inherited_fds in the root process: fix(script): fixed panic when calling inherited_fds in root process #4679

• Fiber Network

  Fixes including:

  • Cross chain hub E2E test: fix cross chain hub e2e test fiber#275
  • Commitment tx capacity issue: fix: commitment tx capacity is wrong fiber#269

  For more details, check out Fiber’s repo: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/fiber

In Pipeline

• CKB

  • Ongoing work on WASM support for the CKB light client: feat: small wasm support #4683, feat: optimizing wasm experience tentacle#375
  • Prune data development based on the freezer
  • Working on reproducible builds for CKB via GNU Guix

• CKB-VM

  • Developing a Rust library for automated IPC in CKB Scripts: https://github.com/XuJiandong/ckb-script-ipc/