2025.10 Update
- TVM version v12: full bounces, new
BTOS
andHASHBU
instuctions, limit on contract size in masterchain. - Optimistic collation/validation: allow nodes to generate and check block candidates before previous block is fully signed (not fully activated yet).
- Introduced custom block compression algorithm.
- Overlay improvements: improved overlay discovery on shard configuration update, private externals in custom overlays.
- Various improvements: session stats, telemetry in fast-sync overlay, earlier block broadcasts, limiting ttl for values in DHT, fixing search by utime in native blockexplorer, faster downloading candidates in validator session, parallelization of storing to cell_db, avoiding touching packfiles on startup.
Besides the work of the core team, this update is based on the efforts of the Tonstudio team: @hacker-volodya @Shvandre; and @mkiesel (avoiding touching packfiles on startup).