meta(anvil): tracking issue for Anvil improvements

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Tracking improvements for Anvil:

Future (anvil on reth)

• feat(anvil): same behavior as major client's tx pool (e.g., geth, nethermind) for stricter tests #7897

Features

• Feature: Custom Precompiles for Anvil  #1505
• feat(anvil): support forking at transaction level #8227
• feat(anvil): add support for JS tracer in Anvil #6764
• Feat: anvil -d, anvil restart, anvil exit, anvil status (container fixes) #2806
• implement anvil_enableTraces #3112
• Feature request: chaos-anvil #3788
• Native tracers support #4110
• Support for trace_filter #4129
• Support int for type in transactions #4240
• Use the pending block base fee in the default value for maxFeePerGas #4360
• Add way to manually shutdown anvil #4585
• feat(anvil): add getLastBlockWallTime debug RPC method #8217
• feat(anvil): ability to dump / load state including the blockchain history, not just resulting state #7955
• feat(anvil): use ContextPrecompile instead of Precompile in Anvil's precompile injection API #7703
• feat(anvil): support for multi-block depth reorgs in Anvil #7368
• Implement Calltracer in anvil #6882
• Add EIP-4844 fields to EthTransactionRequest and introduce EIP4844TransactionRequest #6633
• Add engine API to anvil #5994
• Add anvil --dump-event #5906
• Feature Request: Reth's built-in tracers #5855
• Implement support for running tests on Anvil #5517
• Add state diff tracer to Anvil #5403
• Add anvil_recoverSignature #5381
• feat(anvil): support inline logging of hardhat/forge test style console.sol logs #5352
• feat(anvil): add eth_sendBundle for MEV-related integration tests #8332
• feat(anvil): support resetting from forked to non forked on anvil_reset #7472

Compatibility

• feat(anvil): same behavior as major client's tx pool (e.g., geth, nethermind) for stricter tests #7897
• anvil --init genesis.json incompatible with --load-state state #6679

Configuration

• Add [anvil] section to foundry.toml #4226
• Add CLI Argument to Disable Logging on Anvil #7442
• Have auto and interval mining at the same time #7901
• Be able to specify a prefix path for temp disk storage #3512
• feat: Make eth_call gas limit configurable #3783
• Anvil: Make LogCollector configurable via CLI #7681
• anvil: make max on disk history limit configurable #8399

Performance

• Slow anvil chain start + contract deploys in CI testing with recent release #7631
• perf(anvil): high memory usage when calling debug_traceTransaction #7275
• perf(anvil): Memory consumption steadily increases during prolonged transaction replays #6017
• anvil exited without any error message #4488
• perf: anvil_mine is much slower than hardhat_mine #5499
• perf(anvil): execution time per transaction increases with number of transactions #6124
• perf(anvil): enhance block mining performance in Anvil node for high throughput and efficiency #7039

Caching

• Compression of cache? (polars?)
• Partial cache in forking mode #1759
• Automatically clear old state log directories on disk #4251

Bugs

• Forge fails to fork against Anvil instances that load state #7284
• BlockOutOfRangeError: block height is 23 but requested was 21 #4843
• (anvil) Block number returned after resetting the fork with a new fork url is wrong #1819
• Memory/storage leak in long test #3478
• Transaction/receipts data returned by Anvil is inconsistent with Ethereum spec #3840
• Hardhat's console.log precompiled contract execution inconsistency #4050
• anvil fails forking with optimism bedrock release #4094
• Nonce too low for eth_sendRawTransaction on forked chain #4173
• The anvil service has a large number of network problems in the FIN_WAIT2 state #4323
• Transaction dropped when testing mempool front-running #4327
• transactions not pass for minutes on forkmainnet then suddenly recovered and passed #4340
• Lost events after accident exit #4490
• Anvil returns wrong account balance for last remote block after sending transaction #4700
• bug(anvil): unable to use debug_traceTransaction structLogs tracer on forked network  #8262
• bug: anvil_dumpState full block load doesn't work #8213
• Hex data being truncated in anvil_dumpState #8179
• anvil's block timestamp interval does not go below 1s #7931
• bug(anvil): eth_sendRawTransaction returns invalid transaction v, r, s values #7898
• Otterscan fails to load wallet history and block transactions with anvil local fork #7881
• Forge script stuck when running anvil with fixed block time #7844
• Anvil API test - can_remove_pool_transactions fails on master #7645
• blobhash() returns 0 on a eth_estimageGas call with blobs on anvil #7636
• bug(anvil): missing trie node path state is not available - occuring unpredictably and with no replication  #7625
• bug(anvil): inconsistent simulation behaviour #7068
• In Anvil fork after multiple trx, the gas used is equal to: gasUsed of all previous transactions + gas used of new transaction #7046
• Ethers broadcastTransaction does not get included (Anvil) #6951
• Anvil --disable-block-gas-limit is set, but still getting OutOfGas error #6937
• Anvil - debug_traceTransaction - storage enabled - some struct logs missing storage object #6691
• Anvil evm_revert with the same snapshotId is inconsistent on subsequent calls #6463
• Anvil stops producing blocks and then mines a bunch of blocks at once #6036
• eth_getCode returns empty on fork when --chain-id is specified #5646
• Next block after evm_revert does not have increased timestamp #5518
• Anvil should gracefully deal with the upstream fork rate limits #4894
• anvil fork: base fee from eth_feeHistory is inconsistent with block base fee after executing transaction #3762
• Contract constructor is not returning any values when forcing to return data via assembly #4568
• bug(anvil): anvil --init from genesis.json generates unexpected genesis block hash  #7366
• bug(anvil): unable to submit blob transaction #8447
• bug(anvil): intermittent Failed to send/recv storage error with forked mainnet #8495
• bug(anvil): --fork-url and --load-state are incompatible  #8493
• bug(anvil): contract call extremely slow after anvil_reset on a fork hangs #7966

Error messages

• Improve logging of failure reason when deploying on Anvil (related: Forge script works when simulating but not when broadcasting #7639)
• (anvil): forge script breaks when run with Blast mainnet RPC against anvil forks #7560
• Allow for cleaner output messages when forking origin ID is not valid #7243

Compatibility

• feat(anvil): same behavior as major client's tx pool (e.g., geth, nethermind) for stricter tests #7897
• bug: InvalidFEOpcode when calling getPricesInWei on Arbitrum: ArbGasInfo #7580 ([wip] ArbSys precompile support #7754)

Chores

• chore(anvil-core): migrate to use op-alloy optimism types #6860
• debt(anvil): remove transaction_request_to_typed conversion #7048

Documentation

• docs(anvil): document parameter each custom RPC method expects #7252
• anvil --transaction-block-keeper is not documented #5055

Other

• Better Hardfork -> evm SpecId handling for L2s #6440
• Consider making content-type application/json header optional #2930
• After forking the mainnet, how do I get the outgoing transaction logs or trace immediately before the next block? #4246