Hardhat forking doesn't fork latest block by default

[old-mikser]

My hardhat version is 2.22.17

I'm trying to run forked state of the blockchain with my local node (I also tried with remote nodes and got same results).
I have very simple setup:

networks: { hardhat: { forking: { url: "http://127.0.0.1:8545", } } }

It forks network around 80-120 blocks behind, which is strange for me. When I'm using block number explicitly (current or 1-2 behind) it works as it should.

I thought that expected behavior of getting fork based on the latest block is just to set URL without blockNumber. Since there is now option like blockNumber: "latest what is the most clean way to achieve it? Or am I doing something wrong?

[kanej]

Supporting an option like blockNumber: "latest" would be a breaking change to the API.
I am going to add this for consideration in the Hardhat 3 API.