CKB Dev Log 2025-07-09

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Updates

Features & Release

• Meepo Hard fork successfully deployed. View on Explorer: https://explorer.nervos.org/hardfork
• Released ckb-light-client v0.5.1: https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-light-client/releases/tag/v0.5.1

Improvements & Fixes

• Improved CI workflows for CKB repo

  • CI: drop deprecated action-rs/toolchain, use dtolnay/rust-toolchain #4917
  • Integrate ckb-test as a binary workspace member to enable cargo build artifact reuse, reducing CI build time and disk usage. #4912

• ckb-standalone-debugger improvement: https://github.com/libraries/ckb-standalone-debugger/tree/v202: make existing features such as gdb, probe, flame graph, code coverage more easier to integrate with incoming spawn syscall feature.

• CKB debugger fixes:

  • Fixed the issue that --bin parameter does not work with --tx-file parameter ckb-standalone-debugger#188
  • Minor project structure adjustments ckb-standalone-debugger#189
  • Move decode-instruction related code to separate file ckb-standalone-debugger#190

• CKB light client fixes:

  • Fixed a bug introduced by wasm support: fix panic caused by scope of matched_blocks  ckb-light-client#226

  Ongoing work:

  • Investigating a issue where light-client immediately exits on Windows Server 2019: ckb-light-client exits immediately after start. ckb-light-client#227
  • Support using JSON as configuration ckb-light-client#220
  • Provide basic database API at JS side ckb-light-client#221
  • OpenSSL 1.1 has reached end of life; consider statically linking OpenSSL 3 ckb-light-client#198

In Pipeline

• Developing A JS full-stack Web3 app example
• Implementing ckb-cli two-step contract deployment: Feature Request: Improve Script Deployment with Two-Step Process and Support for Type-ID + Multisig ckb-cli#636
• Improving CKB export/import commands: Enhance ckb export/import for flexible ranges, faster import, and JSONL output #4921