CKB Dev Log 2025-10-29

[bubblepipe]

Updates

Release & Features

• ckb v0.203.0 released https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/releases/tag/v0.203.0
  • BREAKING: feat: impl from/into for gen-type #4910 introduces breaking changes to the Rust SDK. A migration tool is available: ckb-gen-type-migrate
  • Added metrics for indexer's tip metrics: add indexer_tip metrics #4982
  • Fixed an indexer syncing bug Indexer: catch up with primary after rollback #4980
  • Set Molecule size limit to 1.8MB fix: Consider headers of molecule objects when limiting size of BlockFilters message #4978
• ckb-cli v1.16.0 released https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-cli/releases/tag/v1.16.0
• ckb-vm-contrib v0.203.0 released https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-vm-contrib/releases/tag/protobuf-ckb-syscalls-v0.203.0

Improvements & Fixes

• Fixed a memory leak in ckb-light-client Use tikv-jemallocator on non msvc platform and set rocksdb options ckb-light-client#249
• Refactored ckb-debugger implementation using syscall-tracer Refactor debugger by syscall-tracer ckb-standalone-debugger#193

In Pipeline…

• Preparing a preview version for ckb-tui
• Migrating CKB from SledBackend to ckb-rocksdb Replace SledBackend by ckb-rocksdb #4956
• Ongoing work on ckb-bootstrapper
• Adding support for CFI extension in ckb-vm
• Optimizing message compression for ckb perf: improve compress impl #4986, feat: change compress #4979
• Continuing progress towards ckb v1.0