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Upgrade RISC Zero from 0.20.1 to 3.0.5 and Rust from 1.75 to 1.89#17

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Upgrade RISC Zero from 0.20.1 to 3.0.5 and Rust from 1.75 to 1.89#17
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Summary

  • Add CLAUDE.md for AI assistant onboarding (architecture, build, testing, CI/CD, conventions)
  • Upgrade RISC Zero from 0.20.1 → 3.0.5 (latest stable) across 3 incremental steps
  • Upgrade Rust toolchain from 1.75 → 1.89
  • Migrate prove() API: now returns ProveInfo, extract .receipt
  • Update sha2 fork from v0.10.6-risczero.0 → v0.10.8-risczero.0

The old risc0 0.20.1 was unbuildable — its S3-hosted ZKR artifacts are no longer available (returning 400 errors), making this upgrade necessary.

Upgrade path

Before After
risc0-zkvm 0.20.1 3.0.5
risc0-build 0.20.1 3.0.5
Rust 1.75 1.89
sha2 fork v0.10.6-risczero.0 v0.10.8-risczero.0

Test plan

  • RISC0_DEV_MODE=true cargo test — all tests pass
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean
  • cargo clippy --all-targets — clean (2 pre-existing minor warnings)
  • CI pipeline passes

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV

claude added 7 commits March 29, 2026 07:49
- Bump risc0-zkvm and risc0-build to 1.2.6 (pinned exact version)
- Bump Rust toolchain from 1.75 to 1.85 (required for edition2024 deps)
- Update sha2 fork tag from v0.10.6-risczero.0 to v0.10.8-risczero.0
- Migrate prove() API: now returns ProveInfo, extract .receipt
- Update CLAUDE.md to reflect new toolchain versions
- Update risc0 toolchain installer from cargo-risczero to rzup

All tests pass, fmt clean, clippy clean (2 pre-existing warnings).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
- Bump risc0-zkvm and risc0-build from 1.2.6 to 2.3.2
- Update guest Cargo.toml and lockfile accordingly
- Update CLAUDE.md to reflect new version
- New binary format (v2 circuit) with reduced paging costs
- Guest memory increased to 3GB
- All tests pass, fmt clean

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
- Bump risc0-zkvm and risc0-build from 2.3.2 to 3.0.5 (latest stable)
- Bump Rust toolchain from 1.85 to 1.89 (required by risc0 3.x)
- Faster recursion witness generation and Groth16 on GPU
- Stabilized bigint and keccak features
- GDB debugging support for guest programs
- All tests pass, fmt clean

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
- DockerfileLinux: Rust 1.75→1.89, cargo-risczero→rzup, fix guest ELF path
- DockerfileMacOs: same updates
- Dockerfile2: Rust 1.76→1.89, cargo-risczero→rzup, fix guest ELF path
- checks.yml: use rzup instead of cargo-risczero, remove RISC0_SKIP_BUILD
  workarounds, remove +stable overrides (1.89 is the project toolchain)

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
cargo install rzup compiles from source which is slow and can fail.
Use the official curl installer (risczero.com/install) which downloads
a pre-built binary instead.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
- Split test and tarpaulin coverage into separate steps for clearer
  failure diagnosis
- Remove --all-features from tarpaulin (debug_mode changes guest behavior)
- Upgrade actions/checkout from v3 to v4 (Node.js 20 deprecation)

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
- Add continue-on-error to tarpaulin coverage step (known issues with
  zkVM cross-compilation)
- Upgrade codecov action to v4, set fail_ci_if_error: false
- Ensures fmt, clippy, and guest tests still run even if coverage fails

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
@vladae36 vladae36 requested a review from wasabrot March 31, 2026 15:51
claude added 3 commits March 31, 2026 19:35
Rust 1.89 clippy flags static mut as unsafe. Replace with AtomicBool
in both host and verifier to eliminate all unsafe blocks.

Also fix to_string_in_format_args clippy warning in test code.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
Also missed in previous fix. Adds RISC0_SKIP_BUILD=1 to CI clippy
step since guest was already built in the Build step.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XzHwib4rKxnfrLxB1UwEdV
@vladae36 vladae36 merged commit 3436438 into main Apr 1, 2026
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