Project Health

Hyperledger Besu remains a strong project with a growing community network of contributors. This quarter the team has focused on the ethereum Ethereum Mainnet "merge" update, Library library refactoring, and Quorum and QBFT compatibility.

Required Information

1. Have you switched from master to main in all your repos? - Yes
2. Have you implemented the Common Repository Structure in all your repos? - Yes

Questions/Issues for the TSC

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There were more releases this quarter than typical due to 4 separate CVEs (one Besu related, three Log4J releasedrelated).  The 21.10.x line will remain "open" for security updates until 22.1.0 releases.

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• EVM Library
  Work by Hedera Hashgraph has resulted into the separation of the EVM code into a stand-alone library, used by both Hedera and Hyperledger Besu.
• QBFT
  Interoperable with GoQuorum.
  Validators can be managed via smart contracts - allowing operators to quickly change validators if there is a problem (HA).
• Mainnet Merge Offsite
  Multiple Besu maintainers attended an offsite in Q4 with all the major Ethereum Mainnet consensus and execution layer clients, resulting in an initial proof of concept for the merge.
• Privacy code hardening
  Addressing tech debt in privacy code. Consolidation of naming ("onchain" privacy deprecated in favour of "flexible" privacy).
• EVM Performance
  Hedera has worked to roughly triple the throughput of the EVM.
• JWT Authentication
  Added support for additional (and stronger) authentication algorithms (default was RSA).
• Logging and Developer experience improvements
  Improvements in response to community feedback. More work to do here.

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Three maintainers were moved to emeritus status due to inactivity (David Mechler, Edward Mack, and Trent Mohay).  Seven new maintainers were added (Daniel Lehrner, Diego López León, Fabio Di Fabio, Frank Li, Jiri Peinlich, Simon Dudley, Taccat Isid)

These four organizations who are maintainers includeMaintainers are employed by the following organizations:

• ConsenSys Quorum (FKA PegaSys)
• ETC Cooperative
• Hedera Hashgraph
• Splunk 

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Identified Orgs  2021-12-23 to 2021-12-21: 6

Additional Information

None as of the due date for this report.

Reviewed By

•   Angelo de Caro
•   Arnaud J LE HORS
•  artem
•   Arun .S.M.
•   Bobbi Muscara
•   Danno Ferrin
•   David Enyeart
•   Grace Hartley (Deactivated)
•   Hart Montgomery
•  Jim Zhang
•  kamlesh nagware
•   Nathan George
•  Peter Somogyvari
•   Tracy Kuhrt
•   Troy Ronda

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