Ecosystem Update

2/22/22

Core Engineering Updates

• Merges:
  • snarkVM
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/676: Bump anyhow from 1.0.54 to 1.0.55 (howardwu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/681: Bump getrandom from 0.2.4 to 0.2.5 (howardwu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/686: Update repo to edition 2021, update copyright, small clean ups (howardwu)
  • snarkOS
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1649: Ran cargo update (howardwu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1650: Modularize snarkOS, adds missing files, remove cfg_if (howardwu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1651: Feat: basic connectivity metrics (howardwu)
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1654: Update Rust to 1.59 in CI, update edition to 2021 (howardwu)
• In-Progress

  • snarkVM

    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/680: [Testnet2] Fix indexing error for create_proof_no_zk
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/682: [Testnet2] Change backing storage of SparsePolynomial to BTreeMap
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/683: [Testnet2] Zip safety improvements
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/684: [Testnet2] Prevent merkle tree leaf selection overflows
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/685: [Testnet2] Enforce Merkle path length

  • snarkOS:

    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1652: More comprehensive resource management
    • https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1653: Introduce feature-gated task metrics

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