Background The Internet Computer has a limit of 2MiB on the size of ingress messages on most subnets. This limit also applies to install_code messages when they are sent as ingress messages to install or upgrade canisters. In many cases, this is enough but we are slowly seeing more and more cases wh…

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Is there a branch of the sdk that I could use locally to build dfx? I just started trying to get the Node.js APIs working more deeply in Azle and I was immediately hit by the limit, it would be great to at least work locally while awaiting the feature.

I think @AdamS should be able to give you info on if that’s available.

It would be great to have a version of dfx without any limits (app size, heap, etc…) that could be used for testing locally (or maybe a flag when running dfx). It would be useful in figuring out whether some of the issues rising is due to limitation!

@AdamS any branch available for this?

Not at the moment. The feature is not live on mainnet yet.

Sorry, to clarify, I’m even just looking to deploy locally with a local branch of dfx, even if not live on mainnet

Any update on when this is coming out? We’re trying to get node packages working in Azle, was making great progress on sql.js when we were slapped with this limit

@AdamS ’s PR to dfx was just merged, it’ll be in the next release. I think we target the end of next week for that

This is amazing news!!! I just tested this locally this morning and was able to deploy a ~14 MiB binary…and get SQL.js to work in Azle! Great job everybody who worked on this, so awesome!

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lastmjs January 25, 2024, 7:57pm 72

So what are the next steps and timeline to finally getting this on mainnet? Is it on mainnet yet? dfx 0.16.0 has the feature, but there is this major bug: DFX 0.16.0 is now promoted - #2 by lastmjs

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