02/26

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum Call for Proposals due - Friday, March 12 

Code & Projects

Hyperledger Aries

• Voted by TSC to move from Incubation to Active status 

Hyperledger Besu

• Release 21.1.0 now available Some features include:

  • Berlin Network Upgrade: this release contains the activation blocks for Berlin across all supported testnets and the Ethereum mainnet.

  • Besu Launcher: Besu now has support for the Quorum Mainnet Launcher which makes it easy for users to configure and launch Besu on the Ethereum mainnet.

  • Bonsai Tries: A new database format which reduces storage requirements and improves performance for access to recent state.

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Hyperledger Besu

• Support GoQuorum private transactions

Hyperledger Caliper

• Windows compatible port binding

Hyperledger Fabric

• Add Dutch auction example

Hyperledger Aries

• Change storage interface in Go agent

• RFC for JSON-LD credential attachment

Hyperledger Quilt

• Introduce ILP Pay

Articles, Training & Tutorials

• Solution Brief: Decentralized ID and Access Management (DIAM) for IoT Networks

  • This document describes a decentralized identity and access management
    (DIAM) system for IoT devices, based on open source blockchain frameworks from Hyperledger. This decentralized approach can help IoT providers build a secure and cost-effective environment to support millions of IoT devices in the near future.

Events

• Hyperledger In-Depth – An hour with Digital Asset: UTXO and Account models: The good, the bad, and the costly

  • Wednesday, March 3rd @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

• Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 will take place virtually this year. This public event offers the opportunity for users and contributors of Hyperledger projects from across the globe to connect, network and collaborate.

  • June 8-10

Upcoming Project Maintainer Calls

• 27 FEB
  
  

  • Cello

• 01 MAR
  
  

  • Blockchain Automation Framework Contributors

  • Cactus Pair Programming (same time every day)

• 02 MAR

  • Besu Contributor Call APAC/AMER

  • Cactus Maintainers

  • Drafting the Indy DID Method Specification

  • Private Chaincode Lab

  • Indy Contributors Call

  • Quilt Community Call

• 03 MAR

  • Fabric Contributor Meeting

  • Ursa Biweekly Meeting

  • Interledger Community Call

  • Aries Cloud Agent Python Users Group

  • Aries WG B Call

• 04 MAR

  • Cactus Contributors Western Hemisphere

  • Fabric SDK Python Meeting

• 05 MAR

  • Aries JavaScript Meeting

  • Fabric Documentation Workgroup call - Western hemisphere

  • Grid Community Meeting

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