v0.5.0

Release v0.5.0

The first release of the specification that should help in versioning of the protocol documentation. It is compatible with the beta 5 network.
Since it is the first release, it has no highlighted changes yet. The future releases will try to describe significant modifications to the protocol.

What's Changed

• Register approach by @shahankhatch in #1
• Add initial transaction format by @adlerjohn in #6
• Major changes and refactor by @adlerjohn in #7
• Add some crypto precompiles by @adlerjohn in #8
• Add multiply immediate opcode by @adlerjohn in #9
• Add opcodes to extend and shrink call frame stack. by @adlerjohn in #17
• Add memory allocation opcode. by @adlerjohn in #18
• Conditional jumps by @adlerjohn in #19
• Add opcodes for memory copy and compare. by @adlerjohn in #20
• Bunch of clarifications around the VM itself by @adlerjohn in #23
• Specify call and call frames by @adlerjohn in #24
• Add a readme description and organize files by @adlerjohn in #25
• Fix ownership base value for return values by @adlerjohn in #26
• Subsume special registers into regular registers by @adlerjohn in #28
• Fix transaction hash to be 32 bytes instead of uint64. by @adlerjohn in #29
• Fix wording for block hashes of negative-height blocks. by @adlerjohn in #30
• Fix pointer register naming by @adlerjohn in #31
• Minor fixes to crypto opcodes and add Merkle trees by @adlerjohn in #32
• Remove redundant combo arithmetic opcodes by @adlerjohn in #33
• Basic cleanup contract opcodes by @adlerjohn in #34
• Fix the register names used for SB and SW by @adlerjohn in #36
• Use last byte instead of first byte for SB by @adlerjohn in #37
• Define input predicate verification by @adlerjohn in #39
• Fix byte sizes in call frame to be aligned to words. by @adlerjohn in #42
• Cleanup description of special registers. by @adlerjohn in #44
• Add script and predicate data fields. by @adlerjohn in #43
• Fix predicate jump constraints by @adlerjohn in #45
• Specify intial transaction validity and standardness rules by @adlerjohn in #46
• Remove halt opcode by @adlerjohn in #48
• Add a one reserved register by @adlerjohn in #49
• Add NOT opcode by @adlerjohn in #50
• Bound the cost of all operations that operate on variable memory by @adlerjohn in #51
• Remove non-immediate jumps by @adlerjohn in #52
• Remove non-immediate jump references from predicate restrictions by @adlerjohn in #56
• Add operations that are easy to verify by @adlerjohn in #57
• Guarantee transaction length is invariant by @adlerjohn in #59
• Fix description of immediate multiples of 6 bits by @adlerjohn in #61
• Add variable output types by @adlerjohn in #60
• Add conditional contract output by @adlerjohn in #62
• Specify contexts by @adlerjohn in #63
• Make LOG be a no-op with params by @adlerjohn in #66
• Add error flags and overflow/underflow semantics by @adlerjohn in #67
• Improve and simplify gas accounting by @adlerjohn in #68
• Clarify some cases of how pc is advanced by @adlerjohn in #69
• Handle verify opcodes based on context by @adlerjohn in #70
• Specify panic logic by @adlerjohn in #71
• Add transfer opcode by @adlerjohn in #74
• Support forwarding coins with CALL by @adlerjohn in #76
• Add global gas register than only decrements. by @adlerjohn in #77
• Add unsafe math flag by @adlerjohn in #78
• Fix balance logic for transfers by @adlerjohn in #79
• Math flag fixes and improvements by @adlerjohn in #80
• Fix gas deduction on out-of-gas to only deduct from context gas by @adlerjohn in #81
• Add new transaction type to create contract by @adlerjohn in #83
• Restrict max created contract size by @adlerjohn in #84
• Refactor specs repo by @adlerjohn in #87
• Forbid writing to a reserved register by @adlerjohn in #91
• Add opcode to zero out memory by @adlerjohn in #92
• Fix opcodes to be ordered alphabetically. by @adlerjohn in #93
• Separate vm and protocols specs by @adlerjohn in #94
• Document tx lifecycle better by @adlerjohn in #95
• Add checks for input/output bounds. by @adlerjohn in #96
• Add LOADCODE opcode by @adlerjohn in #97
• Add explicit handling of unknown opcode by @adlerjohn in #98
• Cleanup and update readme by @adlerjohn in #99
• Add check for stack and heap collision for LOADCODE by @adlerjohn in #100
• Add withdrawal output type by @adlerjohn in #103
• Misc typo fixes by @adlerjohn in #104
• Enable fee collection by @adlerjohn in #107
• Chore: fix header size of withdrawal by @adlerjohn in #110
• Include bytecode as witness data for create contract tx by @adlerjohn in #113
• Add more metadata to inputs for easier fraud proofs by @adlerjohn in #114
• Move contract ID computation by @adlerjohn in #116
• Support native tokens by @adlerjohn in #117
• Add unconditional transfer opcode by @adlerjohn in #120
• Fix exp overflow width by @adlerjohn in #122
• Minor fixes by @adlerjohn in #123
• Fix VM init stack offset by @adlerjohn in #124
• Support loading of static contract code by @adlerjohn in #125
• Fix offset calculation for stack start initialization by @adlerjohn in #126
• Fix code root description by @adlerjohn in #128
• Rename opcode registers to ABCD by @adlerjohn in #131
• Add mint and burn opcodes by @adlerjohn in #132
• Define linting and formatting rules by @adlerjohn in #133
• Add markdown link checker CI by @adlerjohn in #136
• Make maturity fields 32 bits by @adlerjohn in #137
• Specify access lists by @adlerjohn in #140
• Add check for correctly-sized signature witness by @adlerjohn in #139
• Add check for correct contract ID by @adlerjohn in #138
• Add compressed transaction format by @adlerjohn in #135
• Fix balance type on VM init to be 8 bytes instead of 8 bits. by @adlerjohn in #142
• Fix spacing for panic conditions for LB and LW. by @adlerjohn in #143
• Fix color and contract ID compression by @adlerjohn in #144
• Fix formatting of bitwise or. by @adlerjohn in #154
• Change JNZI to JNEI. by @adlerjohn in #153
• Change CFE opcode to CFEI, which uses an immediate value to extend memory. by @sezna in #156
• Fix SUBI to use immediate. by @adlerjohn in #157
• Add MOVE opcode by @adlerjohn in #158
• Update opcodes ToC. by @adlerjohn in #160
• Clarify that crypto and other opcodes advance pc. by @adlerjohn in #161
• Explicitly set high bits of immediate value on logical ops to 0. by @adlerjohn in #162
• Rename 32-byte storage ops to "quad word" by @adlerjohn in #166
• Add immediate memory clear op. by @adlerjohn in #165
• Rename opcodes to fit in 4 chars by @adlerjohn in #167
• Forbid memcopy range overlap. by @adlerjohn in #168
• Fix missed register re-naming. by @adlerjohn in #170
• Explicit ecrecover error description by @adlerjohn in #171
• Opcodes for tx inputs, outputs, and witnesses by @adlerjohn in #172
• Reduce max static contracts to 255 by @adlerjohn in #173
• Fix wording for predicate init by @adlerjohn in #174
• Fix contract output init for predicates by @adlerjohn in #175
• Fix stack pointer init by @adlerjohn in #176
• Fix burn to use color instead of contract by @adlerjohn in #177
• Fix broken link format by @adlerjohn in #179
• Fix mint and burn color offset by @adlerjohn in #178
• Make LW and SW immediates be multiples of word size by @adlerjohn in #180
• Add LOGD instruction by @adlerjohn in #184
• Add less than instruction by @adlerjohn in #186
• Add RETD instruction by @adlerjohn in #187
• Clarify that SWW clobbers last 24 bytes with zeroes by @adlerjohn in #185
• Check balance from sending contract instead of receiving contract by @adlerjohn in #188
• Fix typo in italics by @adlerjohn in #189
• Fix mint and burn to use current contract ID by @adlerjohn in #190
• Init heap pointer at top instead of frame pointer by @adlerjohn in #191
• Change call parameters and return values by @adlerjohn in #193
• Fix minor typo by @adlerjohn in #195
• Spec receipts by @adlerjohn in #196
• fixes typo in tx validity sum_outputs by @endophysics in #197
• Misc typo fixes by @adlerjohn in #199
• ABI spec by @digorithm in #194
• Add ABI link to README and change opcodes link by @digorithm in #203
• clarify that create transaction must have exactly one contractCreated… by @simonr0204 in #207
• Add support to custom types in the JSON ABI spec by @digorithm in #206
• Init receipts root to zero. by @adlerjohn in #210
• Add memory copy immedate instruction by @adlerjohn in #209
• Specify GM instruction by @adlerjohn in #211
• Make static contracts list of TXO pointers by @adlerjohn in #212
• Clarify that CCP op is only used for reading code by @Dentosal in #215
• Fix typo on LDC by @adlerjohn in #216
• Fix typo in srwq and swwq by @sezna in #218
• Minor edit to remove bit about call frames returning assigned range, by @nfurfaro in #219
• Tx access opcodes panic if $rA is reserved by @wolflo in #221
• Fix naming script hash -> predicate hash by @adlerjohn in #222
• Add ScriptResult receipt type by @wolflo in #224
• Increase max ram to 64 MiB by @adlerjohn in #223
• Add PanicReason to ScriptResult by @vlopes11 in #227
• Add BAL balance opcode by @wolflo in #226
• Fix formatting of panic reasons by @wolflo in #229
• Add Opcode halfword to encoded panic reason by @vlopes11 in #230
• Fixes a small typo. by @nfurfaro in #235
• Update JSON ABI for custom types by @digorithm in #239
• Docs: Update BMST specs to include leaf fee within leaf digest by @bvrooman in #237
• Simply input checks by @adlerjohn in #247
• Move compressed tx format to Ethereum-specific directory by @adlerjohn in #248
• Fix revert to revert contracts and variable outputs properly by @adlerjohn in #250
• Forbid more than one change output per color by @adlerjohn in #252
• On revert, use initial free balance. by @adlerjohn in #251
• Add TXO pointers to inputs by @adlerjohn in #249
• Replace hashes input UtxoId with pair of tx_id,output_index by @rakita in #253
• Remove enshrined panic reason by @adlerjohn in #256
• Name readme title after Ethereum yellow paper by @adlerjohn in #257
• Require at least one coin input. by @adlerjohn in #258
• Color -> asset ID. by @adlerjohn in #259
• Formatting refactor of types by @adlerjohn in #260
• add byte # independent of gas price by @Voxelot in #263
• Refactor readme title by @adlerjohn in #265
• Add rule to verify predicate hash by @adlerjohn in #266
• Remove bal init for scripts. by @adlerjohn in #269
• Transclude signature spec. by @adlerjohn in #267
• Clarify that witness data is not part of tx ID. by @adlerjohn in #268
• Convert txo pointer to tx pointer. by @adlerjohn in #275
• Initial contract storage by @adlerjohn in #276
• Re-add gas fields to contract creation tx. by @adlerjohn in #274
• bytePrice validation by @rakita in #281
• Update Array ABI spec by @QuinnLee in #283
• Always append a result receipt on revert. by @adlerjohn in #288
• Clarify registers used in CALL. by @adlerjohn in #290
• Maximum number of initial storage slots. by @adlerjohn in #291
• Fix reg ID typo in CALL by @adlerjohn in #292
• Adding a missing square bracket by @mohammadfawaz in #294
• ScriptResult Error on Revert by @Voxelot in #293
• Add MOVI instruction. by @adlerjohn in #296
• Fix typos by @adlerjohn in #299
• fix: use uint32 type for all maturity fields by @iqdecay in #300
• Add jump-if-not-zero instruction. by @adlerjohn in #306
• docs: give the meaning of MEM[x, y] by @iqdecay in #307
• update: tuples have components by @QuinnLee in #304
• docs: add specs for function signature encoding with custom types by @iqdecay in #315
• Specify deposit IDs by @pixelcircuits in #314
• Update predicate root definition in specs by @vlopes11 in #321
• Remove compressed tx format. by @adlerjohn in #326
• Minor whitespace fix. by @adlerjohn in #331
• Fix $of for SLL/SLLI. by @adlerjohn in #334
• Order initial storage slot keys. by @adlerjohn in #329
• Fix balanceOfStart usage. by @adlerjohn in #327
• Clarify revert on panic. by @adlerjohn in #328
• Remove static contracts from tx. by @adlerjohn in #332
• Remove byte price. by @adlerjohn in #333
• Specify exp result value on overflow. by @adlerjohn in #335
• Remove SLDC instruction. by @adlerjohn in #330
• Rename opcodes to instruction set. by @adlerjohn in #336
• Second half of renaming opcodes to instructions. by @adlerjohn in #337
• Add dynamic jump instructions. by @adlerjohn in #338
• Expanding the section on enum ABI encoding with more exmaples by @mohammadfawaz in #341
• Rename native -> base by @adlerjohn in #345
• Remove reference to Ethereum. by @adlerjohn in #344
• Add gas price factor. by @adlerjohn in #343
• Clarify how the function selector is computed using a table and a more complex example by @mohammadfawaz in #350
• renamed predicate hash to root by @pixelcircuits in #349
• Specify JSON format for storage initializers by @mohammadfawaz in #352
• Encoding of each type in JSON ABI and other enhancements by @mohammadfawaz in #351
• Make readme intro blazingly fast by @adlerjohn in #354
• New messaging specification (replacing old deposit/withdrawal spec) by @pixelcircuits in #318
• Deny dynamic JMP/JNE backwards jumps in predicates by @Dentosal in #359
• Typo in Output Message ID by @Braqzen in #361
• Remove unused links from readme toc by @pixelcircuits in #364
• Update input message nonce by @pixelcircuits in #366
• Add instructions to get tx fields by @adlerjohn in #353
• Format tables and toc by @adlerjohn in #370
• Get currently-verifying predicate. by @adlerjohn in #373
• Added more validity for messages by @pixelcircuits in #371
• Remove CIMV and CTMV. by @adlerjohn in #368
• Check script and predicate / data lengths. by @adlerjohn in #372
• Bullet pointed receipts in /specs/protocol/abi.md should be clickable links which take you directly to each section by @Braqzen in #379
• Change the bullet points to headings in /specs/protocol/abi.md so that they can be clicked and used as direct links by @Braqzen in #377
• Formalize Double-spend Validation by @Voxelot in #383
• changed col param name by @pixelcircuits in #386
• Type arguments in the JSON ABI and the function selector by @mohammadfawaz in #382
• fix eager rounding, including missing byte costs in resultant fee by @Voxelot in #384
• fix: fix argument name in example by @iqdecay in #388
• Fix the JSON ABI of the complex example by @mohammadfawaz in #391
• Docs: Add SMT test spec and test fixtures by @bvrooman in #389
• Remove separate transaction access instructions by @Dentosal in #393
• Fix GTF_INPUT_MESSAGE_NONCE to use word instead of bytes. by @adlerjohn in #398
• Add timestamp instruction. by @adlerjohn in #396
• Create markdown-lint.yml by @adlerjohn in #397
• Removed owner from input messages by @pixelcircuits in #400
• Update tx_format.md by @xgreenx in #403
• Add mint transaction type. by @adlerjohn in #406
• Improve wording for alu intructions flags by @nfurfaro in #408
• Add contractId field to panic receipt by @Voxelot in #409
• Specify block header by @adlerjohn in #405
• Sequential Reads and Set/Unset status Register in #414
• Update the ABI spec with the new JSON ABI format by @mohammadfawaz in #416
• Address PR Comments from 414 in #417
• Add clear sequential word command in #415
• Added TxPointer to Mint transaction by @xgreenx in #423
• set rB to false if any storage slot in the requested range is unset by @Voxelot in #424
• Write sequential storage slots with previous status in #422
• Move specs into an mdbook. Add CI for deploying. by @mitchmindtree in #425
• Configuration-time constants in the ABI by @mohammadfawaz in #419
• Use u32 for PoA block height by @Voxelot in #431
• Split abi.md into multiple files by @AlicanC in #433
• Fix redirect by @AlicanC in #434
• Minor enhancement to storage instructions + various nits by @mohammadfawaz in #432
• Bring back argument encoding by @mohammadfawaz in #437
• fixed improper range description on SRWQ in #445
• Add messagesTypes to the JSON ABI by @mohammadfawaz in #444
• Add function attributes to JSON ABI by @anton-trunov in #447
• Improve wording on usage of flags F_UNSAFEMATH & F_WRAPPING by @nfurfaro in #441
• Annotate VM instructions with their effects by @anton-trunov in #427
• Addressing comments from PR #437 by @mohammadfawaz in #452
• Reserve undefined flags, and panic if setting them is attempted by @Dentosal in #457
• Make message retryable and not spendable on gas by @pixelcircuits in #443
• specify coinbase validity rules by @Voxelot in #442
• Make LDC clobber the stack. by @adlerjohn in #460
• Add cname for gh-pages by @Voxelot in #463
• Make $hp point to immediately after usable memory. by @adlerjohn in #464
• Add nested call limit by @Dentosal in #465
• Changes for predicate gas metering in #448
• Chain Identifier by @Voxelot in #462
• Make $hp point to the first available byte, instead of the one before it by @Dentosal in #466
• Remove the messageId field from the MessageOut Receipt by @xgreenx in #467
• Document the panic conditions of logd by @Dentosal in #468
• add dynamic cfe & cfs by @Voxelot in #471
• Conditional jumps only check for address validity if the condition is true by @Dentosal in #469
• Make Nonce as 32 bytes array by @xgreenx in #472
• Remove nested call limit by @Dentosal in #473
• Add relative jump opcodes by @Dentosal in #470
• Update gas initialization for predicate estimation in #474
• clarify the description of the coinbase instruction by @Voxelot in #477
• Clarify flag behaviour regarding panics by @Dentosal in #485
• Wideint instructions by @Dentosal in #483
• Bitshift should discard overflow by @Dentosal in #486
• increase code root merkle leaf size to 16KiB by @Voxelot in #476
• Actualize the specification for inputs with the implementation by @xgreenx in #487
• Add link to Predicate page by @dmihal in #494
• Minor fix of the vm initialization description by @xgreenx in #493
• Hash the SMT leaf key to prevent tree structure manipulation by @xgreenx in #496
• refactor: remove nested folders in nav by @sarahschwartz in #497
• Clarify the gas forwarded field in call receipt by @Dentosal in #501
• Fix typo in instruction-set.md by @bitzoic in #502
• Fix broken links by @Dentosal in #500
• Use correct mnemonics for jnef and jneb instructions by @Dentosal in #503
• Add ED25519 and Secp256r1 by @SilentCicero in #484
• Add scattered push/pop operations by @Dentosal in #499
• docs: Add Merkle tree specs to cryptographic primitives by @bvrooman in #504
• Do not restore $hp when returning from a context by @Dentosal in #506
• Remove unused MEM_MAX_ACCESS_SIZE by @Dentosal in #508
• Granular Asset Minting by @SilentCicero in #491
• update docs CI by @sarahschwartz in #507
• ecr opcode is no longer supported by @Braqzen in #513
• Change mint tx format and coinbase rules to mitigate dust accumulation by @Voxelot in #511
• docs: polish "balanceOfStart" explanation by @PaulRBerg in #516
• Minor simplification to Mint transaction after the implementation by @xgreenx in #518
• Remove CHAIN_ID from predicate ID calculation by @dmihal in #519
• Add ECAL instruction by @Dentosal in #523
• specs: add encoding specs for vectors, tuples and u128/u256 by @iqdecay in #520
• docs: Specify max transaction size by @bvrooman in #525
• Transaction Policies by @Voxelot in #514
• Add memory executability permissions by @Dentosal in #530
• Limit the number of receipts to u16::MAX by @Dentosal in #535
• Charge for new storage slots by @Dentosal in #536
• Some clarification after implementation by @xgreenx in #533
• Introduce intrinsic fees for transaction validation beyond script & byte costs by @Voxelot in #529
• docs: configure spell check by @sarahschwartz in #539

New Contributors

• @shahankhatch made their first contribution in #1
• @adlerjohn made their first contribution in #6
• @sezna made their first contribution in #156
• @endophysics made their first contribution in #197
• @digorithm made their first contribution in #194
• @simonr0204 made their first contribution in #207
• @Dentosal made their first contribution in #215
• @nfurfaro made their first contribution in #219
• @wolflo made their first contribution in #221
• @vlopes11 made their first contribution in #227
• @bvrooman made their first contribution in #237
• @rakita made their first contribution in #253
• @QuinnLee made their first contribution in #283
• @mohammadfawaz made their first contribution in #294
• @iqdecay made their first contribution in #300
• @pixelcircuits made their first contribution in #314
• @Braqzen made their first contribution in #361
• @xgreenx made their first contribution in #403
• @mitchmindtree made their first contribution in #425
• @AlicanC made their first contribution in #433
• @anton-trunov made their first contribution in #447
• @dmihal made their first contribution in #494
• @sarahschwartz made their first contribution in #497
• @bitzoic made their first contribution in #502
• @SilentCicero made their first contribution in #484
• @PaulRBerg made their first contribution in #516

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-specs/commits/v0.5.0