Project
Hyperledger Besu
Current Plans
- The project team remains currently working towards its 21.7.0 Release, scheduled for July of 2021. The 21.7 Release is expected to include the following features:
- London network upgrade
- EIP-1559
- Besu working with Tessera
- Similar to last quarter, Besu is also continuing to engage with its community and grow the diversity and decentralization of its maintainer and contributor base.
Maintainer Diversity
Our maintainer decentralization had a small decrease from the prior quarter.
The three organizations include:
- ConsenSys Quorum (FKA PegaSys)
- Chainsafe
- Splunk
Functional improvements in these releases include:
Berlin Network Upgrade - Released
The team completed work to ensure Hyperledger Besu was compatible with the Ethereum hard fork, Berlin, which occurred on April 15th. The Berlin Network upgrade included several improvements to the Ethereum mainnet, such as the addition of subroutines to the EVM, the introduction of “transaction envelopes”; which make it easier for Ethereum to support several different kinds of transactions, and changes in gas costs to increase the security of the network.
London Hard Fork - Scheduled for July 14th
The team has been preparing Hyperledger Besu to be compatible with the next Ethereum hard fork, London. The London Hard Fork includes:
- EIP-1559: Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain
- EIP-3198: BASEFEE opcode
- EIP-3529: Reduction in refunds
- EIP-3541: Reject new contracts starting with the 0xEF byte
- EIP-3554: Difficulty Bomb Delay to December 1st 2021
Besu on Tessera
Besu is now compatible with and can be run with Tessera, the Apache 2.0 licensed private transaction manager written in Java. If you have previously used Orion as a privacy transaction manager of choice, it will be deprecated in November 2021. Tessera is a drop in replacement for Orion.
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