- middleware:
- Add `Statement::Intro`
- Add `SignedBy` native predicate and operation. The signature is auxiliary data to the operation
- Rename `PodSigner` to `Signer` with a new API (just for signing `RawValue`)
- Removed `NewEntry` operation. Use `ContainsFromEntries` instead
- Remove `KEY_SIGNER` and `KEY_TYPE` which are no longer used
- Merge `RecursivePod` and `Pod` traits
- Change the `Pod::deserialize_data` method to use `Self` instead of `Box<dyn Pod>`
- Extend `Pod` trait with these methods:
- `is_main`: when the pod is Main, in a (recursive) verification its vk will be checked to exist in the vd_set but not if it's intro pod
- `is_mock`: skip some verifications in the recursive mock MainPod verification
- `verifier_data_hash`
- `pod_id` renamed to `statements_hash`
- AnchoredKeys are now a pair of dictionary root and key
- Entry statements are now defined as Contains with literal arguments
- Operations that take Entries now use Contains statements with literal arguments
- frontend:
- Rename `SignedPod` to `SignedDict` (which now contains the dict, public key and signature, and can still `verify(self)`ed)
- The `SignedDict` keeps the method `get_statement` for convenience but now it returns a `Contains` statement that proves the existence of the key in the dict
- The `MainPodBuilder` automatically inserts a `Contains` statement when an operation is added that uses an entry as argument that was not yet "opened".
- Removed the `literal` methods from the `MainPodBuilder` that were loading literals to anchored keys: that was no longer needed after we introduced literal arguments
- backend
- Only verify inclusion of the verifying key into the vd_set if the pod is MainPod. A pod is not MainPod if the first statement is Intro.
- Reject intro pods that have non-intro statements
- Empty pod now returns an intro statement
- Don't insert a type statement automatically in MainPod and MockMainPod. We get rid of the type entry.
- Implement `SignedBy` operation, which uses the muxed table to store signature verifications
- Rename `PodId` to `statements_hash` or `sts_hash` for short. Now this is only used as a hash of the statements for the circuits public inputs.
- Refactor normalization of `self` statements:
- Before: replace values that contain `SELF` by the given pod_id
- After: place the verifying key hash into the Intro predicates
- Bump rust version to `nightly-2025-07-02` because some of the nightly features we were using have been stabilized.
- Introduce feature `disk_cache` which enables caching to disk. Each time an artifact is retrieved from the cache it will be read and deserialized. On a cache miss the artifact will be created, serialized and stored to disk.
- Introduce feature `mem_cache` which enables caching to memory. All cached artifacts are kept in memory after they are created. The mem cache implementation avoids cloning of artifacts by extending their lifetime to `'static`. This is `unsafe` code, but I argue that this usage is safe.
- Add a `build.rs`
- When the feature `disk_cache` is enabled, the `build.rs` will inject env variables to the process with the git commit information, which is used to index the cached artifacts
- Replace all previous cached artifacts from `LazyStatic` methods that call the cache API
- Derive `Serialize, Deserialize` for all `*Target` types so that they can be serialized for caching to disk
- Add finer level of caching: now we cache the `CircuitData` and `VerifierData` independently. The reason for this is that `CircuitData` is a very big artifact which is not needed for verification. So by only accessing `VerifierData` in verification we don't pay a big overhead for reading from disk and deserializing
- Add missing artifacts to the cache: like the `CircuitData` for the `MainPod` indexed by `Params`
- Add helper types to serialize and deserialize `CircuitData`, `CommonData` and `VerifierData` with the set of gates and generators used in the recursive MainPod circuit
- Tweak the ids of our custom gates so that they remain unique when their generic parameters change
- Bugfix: several tests were using the standard `vd_set` but were using MainPod circuits with non-default parameters. This was working before because there was a bug: the MainPod circuit was reporting that the used verifier data was the standard one instead of picking the one corresponding to it's own Params.
Summary of breaking changes:
- One and only one of the features `mem_cache` or `disk_cache` need to be enabled. By default it's `mem_cache`
- To enable the `disk_cache` you need to disable the default features like this: `--no-default-features --features=backend_plonky2,zk,disk_cache`
- Removed `DEFAULT_PARAMS`, instead use `Params::default()`
- Removed `STANDARD_REC_MAIN_POD_CIRCUIT_DATA`, instead use `cache_get_standard_rec_main_pod_common_circuit_data`
- The library is now using `nightly-2025-07-02`. Some rust language features are unstable in previous versions.
The PodSigner trait was taking `&mut self` in the `sign` method, but the
signer doesn't need mutation in the Shcnorr implementation. Remove the
`mut`.
Previously the PodProver trait was also taking `&mut self` in the
`prove` method, and we had many tests creating a `mut Prover/mut
MockProver`. Remove all those `mut`.
Breaking change: `PodSigner` trait method `sign` replaces `&mut self` by
`&self`
The examples show:
- Building a Signed Pod with different types of values
- Building a MainPod
- Input SignedPod to MainPod
- Input MainPod to MainPod
- Using MainPod or MockMainPod
- Using custom predicates
