I’m sorry that there has not been a CryptoDevs News post in two weeks. I have been very busy :/ So I will pack all interesting news across those weeks in today’s number.
Me working as hard as I can to deliver the latest CryptoDevs News:
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📚 Weekly Tech Info/Reads
What are some interesting news in this week?
Vitalik:
Geth (still) with a dangerous, highly dominant ~73% market shares across execution layer clients.
🌐 Weekly Ethereum updates
Anything new with Ethereum?
CL clients
Lighthouse v4.6.0: Standard block V3 endpoint, execution layer payload selection input, validator broadcast, networking Improvements, standard Liveness Endpoint.
Prysm v4.2.1:
Wastedassign
linter enabled, API, Testing, Logging and Validator Client Enhancements.Nimbus:
Teku v24.1.1: Required update for Sepolia, Holesky and Chiado.
Lodestar v1.15.0: Deneb hard fork fixes, upgrade to js-libp2p, minor fixes for UX and performance improvements.
EL clients
Geth v1.13.11: Fixes a few bugs and enables the Cancun upgrade for the Sepolia and Holesky networks.
Nethermind v1.25.3: Sepolia Dencun, Chiado Dencun and Holesky Dencun hard forks.
Erigon:
Besu v24.1.1: A lot of additions, breaking changes and bug fixes, check out release for specific details.
Reth v0.1.0-alpha.16: Fix read-only database transaction leak and add safety measures. Add network and trie improvements and fixes.
Layer 2s
zkSync
zksync-era v20.5.2: Fix db: miniblocks index.
Fuel
fuel-vm:
Sway:
v0.49.2: Fixes for auto impl of AbiEncode.
v0.49.1: Remove Subcurrency from examples, use filter_map instead of filter() and map(), ci changes.
v0.49.0: Big release, check out changelogs.
Aztec
aztec-packages v0.21.0.
🔧 Weekly updates on developer's tools
Hardhat v2.19.5: Notify users when a new Hardhat version is available, fixed project initialization bug, fixed a race condition of multiple Hardhat processes, prevent submitting transactions with 0 priority fee.
Brownie:
v1.20.0: Add support for Python 3.12, drop support for Python 3.9.
v1.19.5: Support for custom / typed errors, default to EIP1559-style transactions on live networks, fixed: Readthedocs missing config file.
v1.19.4:
viaIR
optimizer support, silent transactions when calling a contract, include encoded return data in transaction trace,--no-compile
flag to avoid project recompilation, support for various new EVM chains.
Remix v0.42.0: A lot of changes, reading the full changelog is recommended.
Solidity v0.8.24: Support for transient storage (EIP-1153), shard blob transactions (EIP-4844), & more.
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