Week in Aleo News September 8, 2022

Sep 08, 2022

Merges:
- snarkVM:
  - Adds build guard for package: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1010
  - Adds tests for package operations: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1009
  - Adds support for deploying programs with imports: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1008
  - Add test logging for issue #985/986: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1007
  - This PR consists of 2 changes applicable to some tests: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1002
    - the order of operations in some loops was adjusted so that the loops do fewer noops
    - test_is_eq_fails and test_is_neq_fails are now run in a "chunked" fashion so that their runs don't fail to conclude
  - Fix the use of test_rng in tests: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/999
  - Speed up Program tests: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1012
- snarkOS:
  - Api: implement Clone for Message: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1893
  - Contains further tweaks, cleanups, and performance improvements: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1884
  - Improve Client node usability: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1880
In-Progress
- snarkOS:
  - Implement program deployment endpoint: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1897
  - A quick adjustment making the existing network retry setup apply to Block parse errors (during the initial sync): https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1896

aleo:
- [Change Aleo CLI so the explorer URL it uses is configurable (comes from an environment variable): https://github.com/AleoHQ/aleo/pull/338
- Small fixes to the aleo local node to make the API consistent with snarkOS: https://github.com/AleoHQ/aleo/pull/335
snarkVM:
- Basic functionality for getting, adding, and removing validators: https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/pull/1025
Tweaks in Explorer’s UI/UX (not live yet):

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