2020-04-07 0.5 Release contents

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Understand the release contents of the 0.5 Avalon release

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Hyperledger Avalon 0.5 is now officially released in Github here: https://github.com/hyperledger/avalon/releases/tag/v0.5-pre-release.5

*Release notes*
This release for Avalon adds support for Proxy Model in Trusted compute specification v1.1. Below are the major features supported.
• Proxy model support for Ethereum (Hyperledger Besu, Ganache) and Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.
• Support for Receipt handling for direct model.
• Single SGX TEE Worker is supported which can contain multiple workloads.
• External data access from SGX TEE.
• Improved Avalon modularization and added Dockerfile and Kubernetes deployment files for Avalon components.
• Sample workloads and client applications.
• Documentation to build and run Avalon, FAQs and example applications.

The video of the session is here: