CKB Dev Log 2025-01-22

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Updates

Features

CKB

• CKB v0.121.0-rc2 pre-released: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases/tag/v0.121.0-rc2

Fiber

• Fiber has seen multiple updates, with the latest being v0.3.1: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/fiber/releases

Improvements & Fixes

CKB

• CKB new db schema POC:
  • iterator Seek slowdown after delete many keys  facebook/rocksdb#10300
  • Support DeleteRange in transactions facebook/rocksdb#4812
• Peer store optimization: Peer store optimization #4783
• ckb-js-std C bindings:
  • Bindings to secp256k1: feat: add secp256k1 0.6.0 ckb-js-vm#28
  • Bindings to hash functions: feat: add sha2-sha256, keccak256, ripemd160, blake2b bindings ckb-js-vm#30
  • Bindings to smt: feat: smt bindings ckb-js-vm#31
  • refactor: batch changes to syscall bindings ckb-js-vm#35
• ckb-js-vm updates:
  • Mount binding optimizations: Allows mounting on a specific path ckb-js-vm#36
• Security fixes:
  • https://github.com/libraries/ckb/tree/args_reader

Fiber

• Design updates:
  • Handle errors before channel ready fiber#437
• Pathfinding improvements:
  • Removed some duplicated logics: Minimize work done by build_route fiber#471
  • Use private channel hop hints: Handle private channel hop hints fiber#487
  • Add unit test for last hop stopped fiber#460
  • Fix issue that the failure of middle hop tlc forwarding does not returned fiber#457
• Message broadcast improvements:
  • Save our own broadcast message directly and save raw gossip message from peers to memory first fiber#434
  • Send channel tlc info directly to counterparty and update network graph with owned channel information fiber#446
  • Rebase some conflicting PRs:: Query missing broadcast messages from peers fiber#428
• Migration updates:
  • Add migration from v0.2.0 to v0.2.1 fiber#468
  • Use Vec<u8> as middle man to deserialize various types fiber#483
  • Move migration to standalone binary fiber#474
• Minor fixes:
  • Make number of active/passive syncers configurable fiber#429
  • Handle SIGTERM on unix-like systems fiber#472
  • Don't return error while handling actor messages fiber#462
  • Cleanup preimage after tlc is settled fiber#454
  • Fix payment history assertion crash fiber#484
  • chore: Fix RPC document issues fiber#467

Tentacle

• Sync changes from upstream: feat: change by upstream tentacle#395

In Pipeline

CKB

• ckb-light-client-wasm review in progress: feat: wasm support for browser ckb-light-client#204
• CKB v0.121 release
• ckb-js-std development in progress: TypeScript/JavaScript and documentation
• Contract development with SilentBerry in progress: https://github.com/ksleifjsslsls/silent-berry

Fiber

• Addressing the reestablishment of Fiber channels in intermediate states following a node restart: [send_payment] return Musig2RoundFinalizeError when mid node update_channel fiber#480