2024-01-30 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/91405289771?pwd=QzA3a0ozTjVSZ0hsYzgwTm9lVDRPQT09)

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220621T010000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 5 pm Monday Los Angeles

• 8 pm Monday New York

• 1 am  Tuesday UTC

• 3 am Tuesday Paris/Berlin

• 11 am Tuesday Brisbane

Agenda

•  Housekeeping

  • Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/

  • This meeting is being recorded

  • Please Mute unless you are speaking

  • If you have a question use the raise hand feature

• General Announcements

  • Dencun on Sepolia on the 30th 2024-01-30 22:51:12 UTC. Need to update Besu to at least 24.1.0 and your CL to latest version

    • Add a reminder on our discord to check your EL and CL are updated

  • Dencun on Holesky 7th February 2024-02-07 11:34:24 UTC

  • See EF announcement here https://blog.ethereum.org/2024/01/24/sepolia-holesky-dencun

• Roadmap Review 

• Release updates

  • 24.1.1 release

    • Release artifacts are safe, and SHAs have been updated. It was a CI issue.

• Work Updates

  • GitHub actions CI

    • PR is https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6427

      • Looking like we will move to GHA tomorrow

      • Some followup work

        • Making builds repeatable builds

    • Still targeting 24.1.2

  • Besu opinions on Prague The Prague Upgrade from Besu Maintainers - The Hot, Cold, & Open-Ended

  • Experimental storage improvements with Trielog limiting 

    • stands to save > 3GB per week. (~160GB per year)

    • Limit Trie Logs 

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/5390

  • Snap sync to finally become officially production-ready (has been our recommended default for some time) https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/6405

    • The first change is to rename X_SNAP → SNAP and X_CHECKPOINT → CHECKPOINT

    • Follow on work to create profiles for changing default Change to Besu Defaults - Q1 2024

• Other Business

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• Open Forum

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• Future Topics

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Recordings

Find the recording in the playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0MZ85B_96CHpqsKmljUK8HB98wK67RjC