03/13

Owned by David Boswell
Last updated: Mar 17, 2023
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Announcements

Code & Projects

Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) Release 0.8.0

0.8.0 is a breaking change release that contains several new features and many (many) updates to existing functionality. The biggest addition is the inclusion with ACA-Py of a universal resolver interface, allowing an instance to have both local resolvers for some DID Methods and a call out to an external universal resolver for other DID Methods. Another significant new capability is full support for Hyperledger Indy transaction endorsement for Authors and Endorsers. A new repo aries-endorser-service has been created that is a pre-configured instance of ACA-Py for use as an Endorser service.

A recently completed feature that is outside of ACA-Py is a script to migrate existing ACA-Py storage from Indy SDK format to Aries Askar format. This enables existing deployments to switch to using the newer Aries Askar components. For details see the converter in the
aries-acapy-tools repository.

ACA-Py container images are now published as part of the release pipleine to the Hyperledger organization GitHub Container Registry. Other artifacts are published to the usual places, PyPi and internal docs on ReadTheDocs.

This release includes 114 pull requests from 32 different contributors, including 16 new contributors to the repository. Thanks to all that contributed to this important new release.

Please see the ACA-Py 0.8.0 Release Notes for release details.

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Articles, Training & Tutorials

Hyperledger staff have published an article that explains how the community managers the full lifecycle of a project from launch, growth, maturity and end of life.  Managing the full lifecycle of projects, and removing projects from the community when they become inactive, is a critical part of helping our community grow.  If you're interested in community management and how a large open source foundation operates, check out the post about Helping A Community Grow By Pruning Inactive Projects.

Events

The schedule for Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver from May 9-12 is out and it features many different speakers from the Hyperledger community covering a range of issues from decentralized identity, smart contracts and how Hyperledger projects are being used to address sustainability challenges.  Find out how to register for the event and if you'll be in the area that week we're planning a Hyperledger community activity you are welcome to join us for.

You can find more Hyperledger calls and other events listed on the community calendar.

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