09/03

Announcements

This year's Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee (TSC) election will happen from October 1 to 15, 2021.  The election will include active contributors who have been nominated to run as candidates. We are now opening the call for nominations and this process will run through September 17.

To nominate somebody, first ask them to confirm that they would like to be nominated then use the following email template with the subject line "TSC election nomination" and send it to elections@hyperledger.org. More details here.

Code & Projects

Some solang developments: 

• Solang v0.1.4 has been released: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/solang/releases/tag/v0.1.8 and now Uniswap compiles for Solana and Substrate
• Solang uses llvm 12 now (was llvm 11 before): https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/solang/pull/474
• There are arm mac binaries generated using Hyperledger arm mac runners: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/solang/pull/477
• The visual studio extension has also been updated: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=solang.solang

Aries Cloud Agent - Python released: 0.7.1

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Hyperledger Fabric

• Private Data Comparison

Hyperledger Labs

• [Blockchain Automation Framework] Updated vault write command to support large file sizes
• [Blockchain Carbon Accounting] Cactus integration
• [FireFly] Fabric plugin

Articles, Training & Tutorials

Events

• The monthly Marketing Committee - Developer Relations sync meeting is next week, please join us!

Upcoming Project Maintainer Calls

September 7, 2021

• Cactus Maintainers [6] - Regular Agenda
• Cactus - Pair Programming Session
• Private Chaincode Lab

September 8, 2021

• Technical WG China Meeting双周会议
• Aries WG A Call
• Aries WG B Call
• Cactus - Pair Programming Session
• Caliper Contributors Meeting
• Marketing Committee - Developer Relations sync
• Aries Bifold User Group Meeting

September 9, 2021

• Cactus Contributors Eastern Hemisphere
• Aries JavaScript Meeting
• Cactus - Pair Programming Session
• Avalon Developers Forum
• Identity WG Implementers Call

September 10, 2021

• Iroha Bi-Weekly Community Meeting
• Cactus - Pair Programming Session
• The Giving Chain Meeting
• Cello Weekly Meeting

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