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