Ecosystem Update

2/20/23

Core Engineering Updates

There are many more merges and in-progress pull requests to check out. We recommend heading to https://github.com/AleoHQ for a full weekly review.

• Merges:
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1364: Add check_* methods for transactions
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1360: Fix CommitInstruction::output_type
  • snarkOS
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2251: Update one last license
  • leo
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2274: bump aleo v0.3.5
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2273: Removes unused or deprecated keywords from the grammar
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/leo/pull/2271: Fixes issues with function inlining from imported programs
• In-Progress
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1371: Minor fixes for circuitt
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1369: Introduce the concept of an Admin for deployments
  • snarkOS
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2262: Update documentation to clarify start command option
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2253: Merge the staging branch
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/2249: Fix .integration CI
  • leo
    • No substantial updates

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