Suggestion for upgrading borsh dependency to 0.10 in the next release.

[riversyang]

Hi there, Octopus Network is working on near-ibc which will enable IBC based cross-chain bridge on NEAR protocol.

We plan to integrate the latest ibc-rs. The latest version of ibc-rs to be released has a dependency on borsh 0.10 (due to the requirements of other dependencies, see this issue), but the current release version (4.1.1) of near-sdk-rs has a dependency on borsh 0.9.

I looked at the source code of the latest near-sdk-rs, and I found that the borsh dependency is still 0.9. So this will affect the release of the near-ibc project.

I'm wondering why this dependency is still not upgraded in near-sdk-rs, is there any special consideration? If not, we would like to see borsh upgraded to 0.10 in the next release of near-sdk-rs.

BTW. We also expect the env::ed25519_verify function to be available in the next release of near-sdk-rs, which will help us reduce the gas consumption of signature verification in tendermint light client in near-ibc contract, which is also very important for near-ibc.

Thank you!

[frol]

@riversyang Thanks for flagging it! There is a major push to borsh 1.0, and we already have a draft PR #1075 that checks that 1.0-alpha works as expected!

[frol]

#1075 upgraded borsh to 1.0