Project Health
Hyperledger Besu remains a strong project with a growing community network of contributors. This quarter the team has focused on Ethereum protocol improvements as well as many performance improvements, included in the Hyperledger Besu 21.7.0 Release, which will be launched on July 6th.
Required Information
- Have you switched from master to main in all your repos? No, this was not completed with final Berlin mainnet activation as originally planned. It is was deprioritized to be completed after the London Hard fork (scheduled for mid-July) because of unknown downstream impacts. Issue is here.
- Have you implemented repolinter.json in all your repos? Yes, via GitHub actions.
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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
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Hyperledger Besu is testing out the badging process. Here is a link of its current statuses for each of the badges.
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- Angelo de Caro
- Arnaud J LE HORS
- Arun .S.M.
- Baohua Yang
- Bobbi Muscara
- Danno Ferrin
- David Enyeart
- Gari Singh
- Grace Hartley (Deactivated)
- Hart Montgomery
- María Teresa nieto
- Mark Wagner (Deactivated)
- Nathan George
- Tracy Kuhrt
- Troy Ronda
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