Weekly update 2022-07-14

[akhi3030]

Done

• @matklad: fix: fix span leakage #7172 -- fix pretty cursed bug on the intersection of async, a
  ctors, and tracing
• @matklad: test: add convenience helper to upgrade protocol in tests #7153 -- inspired by recent contract-rutnime test refactors, c
  hipping at test duplication in nearcore
• @matklad: chore: update openssl #7168, chore: upgrade sysinfo #7156, https://git\
  hub.com/chore: remove a bunch of unused dependencies #7155, chore: drop gratitious dependency #7154 -- spring cleanup of some dependenci
  es
• @matklad: chore: upgrade Rust to 1.62.0 #7146 -- upgraded to Rust 1.62
• @matklad: refactor: use serde_repr to cut some boilerplate #7147 -- cut some boilerplate with the help of serde_repr
• @matklad: https://near.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/295558-pagoda.2Fcore/topic/How.20a.20block.20gets.20made
  -- figured out how "block processing" actually works.
• @Ekleog: Code review (Enable reuse of mmaps between artifacts wasmer#125)
• @Ekleog: Fixed 3 nayduck workers not running the fuzzer properly (one had the service disabled, two had rustup
  broken)
• @jakmeier: Prepared stabilisation PR for fixed function call gas charging. (https://github.com/near/nearcore/p\
  ull/7169, feat: stabilize precharged contract loading gas #7177)
• @jakmeier: Estimator chore: (fix: CpuBenchmarkSha256 encoding in assertion #7170, https://github.com/near/nearcore/pull\
  /7003)

In Progress

• @matklad: writing tests for chunk-only producers
• @nagisa: Cleaning up Enable reuse of mmaps between artifacts wasmer#125
• @nagisa: Working on a proof-of-concept of integration of this in nearcore. This raises some interesting questi
  ons about stateful VM, so I’m thinking what a best approach could be.
• @Ekleog: Finishing up the switch to cargo-bolero (fuzz: copy all cargo-fuzz targets to cargo-bolero integration tests #7143)
• @jakmeier: Working out how to expose gas price and access key allowance to smart contracts. (https://gov.near.\
  org/t/expose-gas-price-and-contract-access-key-info-within-runtime/24788)
• @jakmeier: Figuring out correct gas estimation and numbers under new gas cost model. (https://github.com/near/\
  nearcore/pull/6996, Clear up estimations around function call costs #6353)
• @jakmeier: Going through estimation changes due to feat: reduce block overhead effect on estimations #7175