11/20 Turkey Eating Edition

Announcements

Code & Projects

Hyperledger Labs: Umbra

• v0.3.0 is now available
  
  • Hyperledger Mentorship 2020 Project: Adds the network configuration and fuzzing APIs to the simulation platform.
  • Hyperledger Mentorship 2020 Project: Adds support for running Hyperledger Iroha networks.
  • Hyperledger Mentorship 2020 Project: Updates to support the University Course using Umbra

Hyperledger Fabric 

• Fabric v2.3.0 now available. 
• Introduces two new features for improved orderer and peer operations:
  • Orderer channel management without a system channel
  • Ledger snapshot

Hyperledger Besu

• Besu v20.10.1 is now available.
• Improvements include: 
  • Two new JSON RPC endpoints to get miner rewards data, `eth_getMinerDataByBlockHash` & `eth_getMinerDataByBlockNumber`
  • A new JSON RPC endpoint to change the gas limit, `miner_changeTargetGasLimit`
  • The transaction pool now prioritizes transactions by gas prices
  • EVMTool is now part of the binary distribution
  • We now provide a new metric to track performance during block import: MegaGas/Seconds
  • We have support for OpenTelemetry metrics
  • We added support for qip714block config parameter in genesis file, paving the way towards permissioning interoperability between Besu and GoQuorum.

Noteworthy Pull Requests: Hyperledger Iroha Edition

Hyperledger Iroha

• Crypto: HSM Utimaco integration - introduces a signer abstraction so that external HSMs can be used for signing.

Hyperledger Iroha

• Crypto: GOST 34.10 integration - GOST encryption support with the Botan library in addition to the above PR.

Hyperledger Iroha

• Docs: Add information on Environment Variables configuration

Articles, Training & Tutorials

Events

Upcoming Project Maintainer Calls

• 21 NOV
  • Cello
• 24 NOV
  • Besu EMEA/AMER
  • Drafting the Indy DID Method Specification
  • Private Chaincode Lab
  • Indy
• 25 NOV
  • Fabric
  • Caliper
  • Ursa
  • Interledger
  • ACA PUG
  • Aries
• 27 NOV
  
  • Fabric SDK Python
  • Fabric Docs - East
  • Aries Javascript
  • Fabric Docs - West
  • Sawtooth

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