ckb 0.204.0 (555140e 2025-12-15)

[doitian]

Highlights

v0.204.0 introduces network privacy features with proxy and Tor onion support (#4733), along with performance improvements including asynchronous relay messaging and enhanced compression. This release also adds better observability through indexer tip metrics and improved Windows platform compatibility warnings.

Compatibility Table

Network	Consensus Version	Minimal CKB Version
dev	ckb2023 since epoch 0
preview	ckb2023 since epoch 0	v0.119.0
testnet	ckb2023 since epoch 9,690	v0.119.0
mainnet	ckb2023 since epoch 12,293	v0.200.0

See how to connect to various chains in Wiki.

Default assume valid target

• Mainnet: 0xeeb23a01dba88365d84d713945288eeb408fae3036e0b34b32f32b43f728aced
• Testnet: 0x10e595bdb28b3484996dccacaca8c3077743219a01953aa29796055cc5a55ebc

Downloads

OS	Arch	Runtime Dependencies	Package	Sign
macOS	x64	macOS 10.15 or above	zip	PGP
macOS (Portable)	x64	macOS 10.15 or above	zip	PGP
macOS	ARM64	macOS 10.15 or above	zip	PGP
macOS (Portable)	ARM64	macOS 10.15 or above	zip	PGP
Linux	x64	glibc, libstdc++	tarball	PGP
Linux (Portable)	x64	glibc, libstdc++	tarball	PGP
CentOS	x64	glibc, libstdc++	tarball	PGP
CentOS (Portable)	x64	glibc, libstdc++	tarball	PGP
Windows	x64	VC++ Redistributable	zip	PGP
Linux	ARM64	glibc, libstdc++	tarball	PGP
Docker			dockerhub

Deprecation Notice: CentOS has reached its EOL, we will stop providing CentOS binaries in the future. Please use other platforms or build from source.

The .asc files are signatures. It is wise and more secure to check out for the files integrity.

Try the portable variants if the binaries complains about illegal instructions.

Changes since v0.203.0

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Features

• Add proxy and onion support for ckb-network #4733: Add proxy and onion support for ckb-network (@eval-exec)

Improvements

• feat: relay use async send msg #5001: Relay use async send msg (@driftluo)
• perf: improve compress impl #4986: Improve compress impl (@driftluo)
• metrics: add indexer_tip metrics #4982: Add indexer_tip metrics (@eval-exec)
• windows: Hint windows user to install latest vc-redist if host vc-redist is lower than 14.44 #4997: Hint windows user to install latest vc-redist if host vc-redist is lower than 14.44 (@eval-exec)

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This discussion was created from the release ckb 0.204.0 (555140e 2025-12-15).

[doitian]

We have confirmed that the macOS package for x86-64 is wrong in this release. We'll upload the correct one later.