CKB Dev Log 2023-04-19

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Growth & Evolution - @EthanYuan

What's New

• CKB-VM
  • Contributed test cases to atomic memory operation (AMO) instruction and Store-Conditional (SC) instruction of RISC-V A extension.
    • Add more tests for amo[max/maxu/min/minu]_w riscv-software-src/riscv-tests#464
    • Make sure that sc after failure sc fails riscv-software-src/riscv-tests#465
  • Conceptualized a project for the new lock script, CKB Combine Lock, that enables the combination of various signature algorithm scripts and provides a unified solution for verification.
  • Embedded additional DSL commands to ckb-debugger, a collection of debugging tools.
    • Add a simple DSL in dummy_tx.json ckb-standalone-debugger#67
    • Add new DSL statement: def_type & ref_type ckb-standalone-debugger#69
  • Fixed some issues with the ckb-contract-toolchains and performed tests across multiple platforms. The updated toolchain is now supported in:
    • Binary packages for Ubuntu 22.04
    • x86_64 Docker images
    • Source code compilation for Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Archlinux, as well as macOS Big Sur and newer versions running on x86_64 and arm64 architectures
• CKB
  • Release ckb v0.109.0
    • Improvements and new features: Release ckb v0.109.0 #3918
  • Hardfork 2023
    • Implemented code for network switch in f02ba52
  • Upgraded CI runner's dependency
    • CI: upgrade nextest-rs/nextest on windows CI job runner #3922
  • Started working on a CKB node explorer, ckb-analyzer, to display node distribution of the network
• Open Transaction
  • Added a Signing Plugin that reads address and private key from environment variables during payment
    • feat: add built-in plugin signer EthanYuan/open-transaction-pool#2
• CKB-SDK
  • Released ckb-sdk-java rc/v2.1.1

What's Coming

• CKB-VM
  • Keep working on CKB Combine Lock (PoC)
  • Implementing tests on RISC-V A extension real projects
  • Adding probes for syscall and functions ckb-debugger
    • WIP: Add documentation and sample code to use probes ckb-standalone-debugger#71
• CKB
  • Hardfork RFC
    • Progress https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/milestone/23
  • Refactoring and fixing up ckb-analyzer to support CKB node analytics
• Open Transaction
  • Surveying P2P solutions for CKB Open Transaction
  • Implementing RPC in the Open Transaction pool that gives wallet clients access to the list of unsigned transactions