⚡️ Added automatic links to Web IDE from code blocks in Cookbook section of the docs

Did you know, that just like the Remix for Ethereum, TON has an official Web IDE? If not, take a quick look at what it offers:

• Tact and FunC project creation
• Code highlighting and snippets for Tact and FunC
• Semi-automatic Build → Deploy pipeline on every save
• Convenient buttons to call getters and send messages to deployed contracts
• Deploy to Sandbox, testnet and mainnet
• Share button ↗️ on every file in a file tree
• ...plus a lot more!

And now any code samples from the Cookbook are right at your fingertips — just press the "Open in Web IDE" button, and the contents of the code block would automagically transfer to Web IDE!

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #994
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/cookbook

🍲 «What's the TTP of Web IDE?»
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎉 Misti 0.5 has just landed on NPM!

🔍 More Tact Detectors: Covered Tact-specific issues like CellOverflow, SuspiciousMessageMode, UnboundMap achieving totally 25 detectors.

⚠️ Warning Suppressions: Suppress specific warnings using // @misti:suppress DetectorName comments.

💡 Usability Enhancements: Install Misti with a single command and run it on the directory containing your contracts—no extra configuration required:

npm install -g @nowarp/misti
misti path/to/src/contracts

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements: More configuration options, optimization and improvements. Check out the full changelog.

♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ Watch Tact & DevTools talk from 2nd day of TON Gateway
🌀 It's a whirlwind tour of progress made in Tact and ecosystem, plus the plans for the future!

🎞 If loading the video on Telegram is too much, start watching at the timestamp on YouTube
👀 For more, see the full recording of TON Gateway | Day 2

🍲 tactical advantage, strategic dominance
♨️ @tact_kitchen

❤️ A warm welcome to listeners of good podcasts @tonpizdev
♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ Heads-up: there are more than 2100 Tact source files on GitHub, not counting forks and the tact-lang organization!

It would be nice to get Tact code highlighted there, don't you think? That's why we've made a PR to Linguist, a language detection and highlighting library from Github.

Here's how you can help:
1. Go to the PR
2. Leave your 👍 without writing any comments, to keep PR clean
3. Keep writing nice open source contracts in Tact 🙌
4. Wait for the best 🤞

This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill.
This is the beginning of the story.

UPD: ❤

🍲 our story, actually
♨️ @tact_kitchen

❤️ Thanks, folks! We really appreciate that!

🍲 melting hearts
♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ Added a page on security best practices to the documentation

There are several anti-patterns and potential attack vectors that Tact smart contract developers should be aware of. These can affect the security, efficiency, and correctness of the contracts.

With the help of community contributors, we've discussed the do's and don'ts specific to writing and maintaining secure Tact smart contracts, and written a cohesive page for you!

🧑‍🍳🎉 Community contributors: PixelPlex and Aliaksandr Bahdanau
🐙 Implementation: #1070
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/book/security-best-practices

🍲 where did the bad actor go? they ran somewhere
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⚡️ Added DeDust and STON.fi cookbooks to the documentation

Ever wondered how to build your own Decentralized EXchange? Neither have I!

However, documentation on how to interact with existing DEXes from Tact was highly requested — and, with the help of community contributors, we wrote it. Read how to swap Toncoins for Jettons, Jettons for Jettons, and provide liquidity to pools of DeDust and STON.fi, all with ⚡️ Tact.

🧑‍🍳🎉 Community contributors: PixelPlex and Aliaksandr Bahdanau
🐙 Implementations: #954, #956
✈️ Delivered: DeDust, STON.fi

🍲 decentralized surprise liquidity provision
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⚡️ Completely overhauled exit codes page in the documentation

Sometimes pages in the Tact documentation are more detailed than you'll find elsewhere. The exit codes page is a case in point.

Not only do you get a comprehensive denoscription of what exit codes are, how they are defined, and which ones are reserved, but you also get a handy table of them with short denoscriptions and quick navigation to each exit code in the table of contents. Since each of the exit codes has its own headings, linking to a specific exit code is easier than ever!

In addition, all denoscriptions of compute phase exit codes show examples of how you might encounter them. And sometimes even help you to anticipate and avoid them.

By the way, for exit code 50 (not listed anywhere else), we've also described the current limits on config param 43 related to account state, max number of bits and cells in messages, and much more.

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #978
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/book/exit-codes

🍲 code: dismissed
♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ GitHub supports Tact!

Now that you've clicked, let me clarify — thanks to our efforts, your support and all of you writing lots of smart contracts, Tact now has syntax highlighting all across GitHub!

— Files with a .tact extension? Boom, colored.
— Blocks of code in markdown that specify tact as their language? Got you covered.

❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love! Without you, there would be nothing. Literally.

✈️ We're continuing to ship awesome stuff for you — expect many shiny things this December.

🍲 growth is inevitable
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎉 Misti 0.6 has just landed on NPM!

🔍 More Tact Detectors: CellBounds which covers both CellOverflow and CellUnderflow, ExitCodeUsage, EtaLikeSimplifications and ShortCircuitCondition.

⚙️ More Tools: Added Callgraph that tracks function effects and is useful for auditing contracts.

🌐 Better Integrability: Misti can run in browser environments.

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements: Check out the full changelog.

♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ Added an assembly functions page to the documentation

👉 Covering all your needs and going beyond:
▪️ Eh, what are TVM instructions anyways?
▪️ Sure, they're used in asm functions of Tact, but what's the syntax and stuff?
▪️ Stack registers, what's that?
▪️ Fine, but what if I want to re-arrange parameters or return values?
▪️ Limitations? Caveats?
▪️ How would I debug all that?
▪️ Can I apply some attributes?
▪️ Got any examples?

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #1061
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/book/assembly-functions

🍲 there are 11 types of programmers: ROT, -ROT and BRAINROT
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎄 Merry Christmas, Folks!

As we wrap up 2024, it's time to celebrate all that we've accomplished together.

🚀 Adoption, Features and Tooling

Your biggest achievement this year was getting GitHub to support Tact on the entire website! We say you, because it wouldn't have been possible without you writing contracts, finding and reporting bugs & suggestions, and supporting Tact elsewhere ❤️

Regarding features and compiler updates, there were so many, that Tact has practically been reborn into a fresh, secure, easy and accessible language language for complex smart contracts, quick onboarding and fast prototyping.

In terms of tools, an awesome static analyzer Misti raised from 0 to hero: with over 25 issue detectors, CI/CD and Blueprint integrations. Additionally, the tree-sitter-tact and many editor packages and highlighting plugins were frequently updated to keep up with compiler updates.

📚 Documentation

Working on the clearest and most comprehensive documentation, we often had to dig deep into TON sources and discover what was really going on under the hood. And it was and is very worth it: the exit codes and assembly functions pages are the most vivid proofs.

We try to cater to both the experienced professionals and beginners on TON Blockchain, which is why you can expect more in-depth research of TVM, more production-ready examples of common contracts in Tact, and an even more streamlined onboarding experience ✈️

🐞 Bugfixes

The release 1.4.1 in particular squashed so many bugs, that the security audit of 1.5.0 went silky smooth — no critical vulnerabilities found, as announced on TON Gateway.

As for the next release, we're fixing the internal representation of Address type, reworking the type system to support more TVM types with the most safety and convenience, and making rapid strides to reduce the gas consumption 🛠

🎁 A Small Holiday Request

Finally, we have a small holiday wish: If you’ve enjoyed our progress this year, consider gifting us a GitHub star. It’s a simple gesture, but one that means the world to us. Your support helps Tact grow and reach even greater heights.

🎅 Happy holidays from the Tact team!
❤️ Take care, get some well-deserved rest and prepare for 2025 — we've got big plans for the next year

🍲 sparkling future ahead
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎄 And a Happy New Year!

🍲 🪄✨🎁💝🎊🎉🎉🎉
♨️ @tact_kitchen

⚡️ Added AI prompts for Cursor and Windsurf to tact-template

Did you know, that there's a tact-template that comes pre-configured to kickstart your new Tact projects?

It is much slimmer than the Blueprint-based projects, and focused only on Tact: it includes the compiler, Sandbox-based Jest tests, and basic noscripts and utils to get you started in no time!

🪄 And now, with the help of a community contributor, it also has neat system prompts designed specifically for AI-focused editors like Cursor and Windsurf. Utilize them to gain an edge over competition and aid yourself with prototyping smart contracts.

⚠️ That said, be mindful of the use of AI and make sure to thoroughly test and debug your smart contracts. Funds won't protect themselves 😅

🧑‍🍳🎉 Community contributor: Skuli Dropek
🐙 Implementation: #42
✈️ Delivered: tact-template

🍲 the 's' in ai stands for security
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⚡️ Added a Compilation page to the docs

❓ Did you know how to use Tact compiler on the CLI and its configuration settings?
❓ Have you ever wanted to easily upgrade the compiler or pin a specific version?
❓ Or have you ever wondered about the build/ or output/ folders and build artifacts produced within them?
✅ Well, look no further — the Compilation page describes it all and more!

See what's in store:
▪️ Compiler upgrades
▪️ Compilation report
▪️ BoC-encoded contracts code
▪️ Contract's package .pkg and ABI .abi
▪️ Bindings and wrappers for simpler deployments, debugging and interactions with deployed contracts

The wrappers are currently only generated for TypeScript, but this may change in the future — stay tuned 😉

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Novus Nota
🐙 Implementation: #1309 and #1676
✈️ Delivered: docs.tact-lang.org/book/compile

The image for this post is taken from:
https://xkcd.com/1755/

🍲 don't console my bugs
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🚀 Tact v1.5 Audited by Trail of Bits

The security audit for Tact v1.5 has been completed by Trail of Bits, a leading Web3 security firm.

✅ No high-severity vulnerabilities were found.

🔧 Some bugs and points of improvement were discovered and addressed in a new Tact v1.5.4 bugfix release.

Thanks to Trail of Bits for their thorough review!

The report can be accessed at the Trail of Bits GitHub repo: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/2025-01-ton-studio-tact-compiler-securityreview.pdf

⚡️ In the meantime we continue to improve Tact with new language features, gas optimizations (a lot of those lately!), and enhancements to the compiler’s reliability. This ensures a secure and efficient development experience on TON Blockchain.

👉 Upgrade to Tact 1.5.4, if not already: https://docs.tact-lang.org/book/compile/#upgrades

🍲 cooking with great care for performance and users
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎉 Tact v1.6.0 is released!

🏆 This is the biggest update of Tact since its creation, bigger than all previous milestones combined. There were so many improvements that we've even won over FunC in terms of gas usage on many standard contracts, such as Jettons.
🤔 Don't believe me?
🥳 Let's unpack Tact v1.6.0 together and see these improvements for ourselves!

We'll start with the number one achievement of this release:

⛽️ Gas optimization victory over FunC

Gas has long been a major pain point for Tact. Prior to v1.6.0, Tact's gas usage on many common contracts, such as Jettons, was far from ideal, requiring about 2.5 times gas of the FunC reference implementation.

But with Tact 1.6.0, those old gas-expensive days are long gone.

🤯 For example, a Tact rewrite of the reference FunC Jetton code consumes less gas for transfer, burn and discovery messages!
😎 So, expect to receive easy-to-use idiomatic Tact implementations of common contracts in the near future

Some of the things we did to achieve this:
▪️ Removed "system" cell — for most cases, parent contract code is no longer stored in the system cell with all the child contract codes
▪️ Removed redundant address checks
▪️ Deprecated Deployable trait in favor of receive(){}
▪️ Introduced contract parameters as an alternative to init() function

And optimized compiler internals, many old and new functions in the stdlib:

🧰 Some of the standard library additions and changes

• Added specialized deploy and message functions for efficient on-chain deployments and non-deployment messages respectively
• Many math functions, such as divc, mulShiftRightCeil, and others
• More advanced functions, such as setGasLimit, setSeed, myCode, and others
• Handy throwIf and throwUnless functions, which deprecated their "native" prefixed counterparts
• Optimized emptyCell and emptySlice functions
• Int.toString function now consumes up to 64% less gas
• Int.toFloatString function now consumes up to 62% less gas

Added many functions for Cell, Slice and Builder types:
• Variable integer serialization types and the corresponding .load and .store functions of Slice and Builder types
• Functions Slice.hashData and String.hashData for efficient hashes of data only
• Functions for working with addresses: Slice.asAddress, Slice.asAddressUnsafe, contractHash, and a new BasechainAddress type with its helper functions
• ...and more!

🧳 More auxiliary things

• Basic let-destructuring of structs and Messages
• Compile-time method ID expressions for getters and Message opcodes
• The codeOf expression to get the code of child contracts
• More map improvements and new methods, like replace and replaceGet
• New augmented assignment operators &&=, ||=, >>= and <<=
• Better error reporting for many cases
• Generation of constants in TypeScript wrappers
• The -w, --watch CLI flags for watching for changes and automatic recompilations
• CLI for the Tact's TVM disassembler — unboc
• Fixes of the compilation report
• Fixes of the compiler's third-party API
• Fixes of the internal infrastructure and code generation
• Lots of other smaller bug fixes and enhancements
• ...and documentation for all of that and beyond!

Besides, check out the updated Awesome Tact list and add your awesome projects, especially those using Tact in production!

⚠️ Breaking changes

There are only two, and they're both pretty minor:

• Tact 1.6.0 replaces Context.bounced field with Context.bounceable — whether the received message can bounce back or not. Previously, bounced field was useless since any bounced messages would be handled in a separate bounced() receiver.

• The enabledMasterchain option was removed from tact.config.json. Going forward, support of masterchain addresses is always enabled in Tact contracts.

♥️ Special thanks goes to all the contributors and community members — without you there would be nothing. Let's keep building the future of smart contracts with ⚡️ Tact!
📜 See full release notes for Tact v1.6.0
📥 And upgrade Tact in your projects

🍲 we're beating the gas allegations with this one 🗣🗣🗣
♨️ @tact_kitchen

🎉 Tact v1.6.1 is released!

👀 "Long" time no see — many tools have been updated to support the latest Tact versions, and we've prepared some quality-of-life additions and minor fixes.

A big release cannot exist without a follow-up patch. This patch is mainly focused on polishing things in the internal infrastructure, standard library, and public APIs.

🛠 Bug fixes

▪️ The multiple wildcard function parameters are now supported.

That is, the following works in v1.6.1:

trait WildThing {
    // Using wildcards for parameter names
    virtual fun assure(_: Int, _: Int): Bool {
        return true;
    }
}

contract YouMakeMyHeartSing with WildThing {
    // And then overriding them with concrete names
    override fun assure(a: Int, b: Int): Bool {
        return a + b == b + a;
    }
}

▪️ Made calls to the .toCell() function on struct as a contract field handled correctly.

struct MyStruct { x: Int; y: Int; z: Int }

contract MyContract(myField: MyStruct) {
    receive() {
        // This works fine now:
        self.reply(self.myField.toCell());
    }
}

🧰 Standard library additions and changes

• Added the StateInit.hasSameBasechainAddress() function, which is a gas-efficient way to check whether the given initial state corresponds to a specified address.

• Added the cashback() function to efficiently forward excess funds from an incoming message to the target address.

• All entities in Core libraries received documentation comments. Next time, we'll add missing doc comments for the standard libraries, i.e., everything imported using the import "@stdlib/..." syntax.

🧳 Some other changes:

• We've inlined the contract load functions, so the gas consumption of the benchmarked Jetton implementation in Tact is even smaller than that of its reference implementation in FunC.

• The TypeScript wrappers now produce bi-directional mappings of exit codes from their numbers to string denoscriptions and vice versa. Plus, the message opcodes are exported too.

• The .code infix is no longer added to the file names of the generated FunC, Fift, and disassembled Fift outputs. It was annoying to see it everywhere, so now it's only present on the compiled .boc files.

📜 See the full release notes for Tact v1.6.1
📥 And upgrade Tact in your projects

Besides, the tact.vim plugin for Vim 8+ and tact-sublime package for Sublime Text 3+ have been updated to support Tact v1.6.0 (and v1.6.1 too).

The Misti static analyzer has been updated to v0.7.0 and now supports Tact v1.6.0 and v1.6.1. See its full release notes.

Speaking of plugins and tools, we have another announcement to make — we're starting an alpha test of the tact-language-server: an official language server for Tact that can be used standalone or within a dedicated extension for VSCode and VSCode-based editors, such as VSCodium, Cursor, Windsurf, and others.

Join the alpha squad and gain early access to great tooling: tact-language-server. If things are good, please give it a star and write a positive review. If they're not — open an issue, and we'll take a look!

🍲 cue the Tact type beat (sped up)
♨️ @tact_kitchen from the @ton_studio