09/04

Announcements

The Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee election is coming up and we are currently seeking nominations of candidates. Please see the electionpage on the wiki for more information.

Code & Projects

Hyperledger Besu

• V1.5.3 is now available. Some improvements include:
  • A long-standing known issue using permissioning with Kubernetes is now fixed
  • Early access DNS support
  • Updates to Onchain Privacy Group Management

Hyperledger Aries

• New release for aries-framework-go (V0.1.4). Some improvements include: 
  • Aries Agent Mobile: mobile bindings for all protocols
  • DIF Presentation-Exchange (initial support)
  • RFC0453 - Issue Credential V2
  • RFC0454 - Present Proof V2
  • RFC0434 - Out-of-Band Protocols: added JavaScript and REST bindings
  • RFC0028 - Introduce: added JavaScript and REST bindings
  • TLS support for all inbound transports (wss, https)
  • Middleware handlers for issue-credential and present-proof

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Hyperledger Indy-SDK

• Implement ability to generate a W3C-compatible presentation from an anoncreds proof

Hyperledger Transact

• Merge context manager implementations

Hyperledger Ursa

• Allow passing pre-generated safe prime numbers to Credential Definition creation

Articles, Training & Tutorials

• A Unified Theory of Decentralization David Huseby, Hyperledger Security Maven
• Hyperledger Sawtooth for Application Developers Course
  • Learn how to code a Hyperledger Sawtooth sample application.
  • This blockchain application includes a web-app frontend, a transaction processor (the equivalent of a smart contract) for the blockchain business logic, and a custom REST API for communication. Learning how to code this sample application will teach you about important Hyperledger Sawtooth concepts and will help you understand how to create your own enterprise-level Hyperledger Sawtooth application. Learn more and enroll.

Events

Upcoming Project Maintainer Calls

• 2020-09-05: Cello Weekly Meeting
• 2020-09-07: Cactus Maintainers
• 2020-09-08: Fabric Private Chaincode Lab, samples workgroup
• 2020-09-09:
  • Aries WG A Call, B Call
  • Iroha Bi-Weekly Community Meeting
  • Caliper Contributors Meeting
• 2020-09-10:
  • Cactus Contributors Eastern Hemisphere
  • Avalon Developers Forum
• 2020-09-11:
  • Fabric Documentation Workgroup call - Eastern, Western
  • Aries JavaScript Meeting