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CMC re-exports CanisterSettingsArgs from the private ic-management-canister-types-private crate, which is the internal replica type definition. New fields added to that struct (e.g. log_memory_limit, snapshot_visibility) silently become part of CMC's external Candid API and get forwarded to the management canister, even if the replica doesn't support them yet. Switching to the public ic-management-canister-types crate decouples CMC from internal replica type churn.

What

  • Replace ic-management-canister-types-private dependency with ic-management-canister-types (public crate from crates.io) in both Cargo.toml and BUILD.bazel
  • Adapt call sites: use struct literals instead of builders (CanisterSettingsArgsBuilder), candid::Principal::management_canister() instead of IC_00, string literals instead of Method::* enum variants
  • Remove log_memory_limit from cmc.did — it was never used by CMC and leaked from the private crate's CanisterSettingsArgs

Testing

Existing unit and DID-compatibility tests cover the changed code paths.

…crate

Switch CMC from ic-management-canister-types-private (internal replica types)
to ic-management-canister-types (public crate from crates.io). This eliminates
the version-skew risk where new fields in the private crate CanisterSettingsArgs
silently become part of CMC external Candid API.

Also removes log_memory_limit from cmc.did -- it was never used by CMC and
leaked from the private types CanisterSettingsArgs.
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This pull request changes code owned by the Governance team. Therefore, make sure that
you have considered the following (for Governance-owned code):

  1. Update unreleased_changelog.md (if there are behavior changes, even if they are
    non-breaking).

  2. Are there BREAKING changes?

  3. Is a data migration needed?

  4. Security review?

How to Satisfy This Automatic Review

  1. Go to the bottom of the pull request page.

  2. Look for where it says this bot is requesting changes.

  3. Click the three dots to the right.

  4. Select "Dismiss review".

  5. In the text entry box, respond to each of the numbered items in the previous
    section, declare one of the following:

  • Done.

  • $REASON_WHY_NO_NEED. E.g. for unreleased_changelog.md, "No
    canister behavior changes.", or for item 2, "Existing APIs
    behave as before.".

Brief Guide to "Externally Visible" Changes

"Externally visible behavior change" is very often due to some NEW canister API.

Changes to EXISTING APIs are more likely to be "breaking".

If these changes are breaking, make sure that clients know how to migrate, how to
maintain their continuity of operations.

If your changes are behind a feature flag, then, do NOT add entrie(s) to
unreleased_changelog.md in this PR! But rather, add entrie(s) later, in the PR
that enables these changes in production.

Reference(s)

For a more comprehensive checklist, see here.

GOVERNANCE_CHECKLIST_REMINDER_DEDUP

CMC now re-exports CanisterSettings from the public ic-management-canister-types
crate (as CanisterSettingsArgs). Update downstream consumers that construct this
type:

- rs/sns/cli: replace BoundedVec with Vec<Principal> for controllers
- rs/nns/integration_tests: replace CanisterSettingsArgsBuilder with struct
  literals using the public type
…xport

Drop the alias -- re-export CanisterSettings directly from the public crate
instead of aliasing it as CanisterSettingsArgs. Update all downstream consumers.
@jasonz-dfinity jasonz-dfinity force-pushed the jason/replace-private-mgmt-types-cmc branch from 4654ed6 to bec4ba7 Compare March 10, 2026 20:29
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