Project

Hyperledger Besu

Project Health

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• Release Versioning: Our Hyperledger Besu team is currently proposing switching from Semantic Versioning for Releases to CalVer. Instead of using Major.Minor.Patch, Besu would use Year.Quarter.PatchNumber or Year.Month.PatchNumber. For example, instead of 1.5.2 and 1.6.0 we would have something like 20.3.2 and 20.4.0 or 20.8.2 and 20.10.0. We would like to gain the TSC’s feedback on this change.

Releases

Hyperledger Besu has completed eight bi-weekly patch releases (1.4.6 on 10 Jun, 1.5RC1 on 17 Jun, 1.5-RC2 on 30 Jun, 1.5 on July 15, 1.5.1 RC on 22 Jul, 1.5.1 on 29 Jul, 1.5.2 on 13 Aug, and 1.5.3 on 27 Aug)

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Early Access Features:

• EIP-1559 Support: Hyperledger Besu has been one of the clients leading the implementation of EIP-1559, a major upgrade to Ethereum’s transaction fee market. 
• Ephemeral Testnet YOLO: In preparation for the next network upgrade, Berlin, an ephemeral testnet called YOLO was launched with two new EIPs enabled: EIP-2315, which adds subroutines to the EVM, and EIP-2537, which introduces a new precompile for the BLS12-381 curve.
• DNS Support
• State back-up and restore option

Go to the Changelog for more details.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

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• 16% non-ConsenSys - This is a slight decrase from 21% in the prior quarter

Contributor Diversity

Commits from 2020-06-08 to 2020-08-28 : 216

Committers from 2020-06-08 to 2020-08-28 : 26 (9 non-PegaSys)

Identified Orgs  2020-06-08 to 2020-08-28 : 5 + 4 independent

Additional Information

Reviewed by

•  Angelo de Caro
•  Arnaud J LE HORS
•  Christopher Ferris
•  Dan Middleton
•  Gari Singh
•  Hart Montgomery
•  Mark Wagner (Deactivated)
•  Nathan George
•  Swetha Repakula
•  Tracy Kuhrt
•  Troy Ronda

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