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- Purge history of private data - e.g. for GDPR scenarios
- Announce deprecation of legacy SDKs in favor of Gateway SDKs
- Long-term support (LTS) release - dependency updates, proto updates, etc
- Continue maintenance and support on the v2.5 LTS release for an extended time period
Fabric v3.0 (in development)
- BFT Ordering Service
- BFT Block replication and signature verification
- Remove deprecated orderer components
- Smart BFT consensus - early alpha release
- Inversion of control - ordering service node binary per consensus protocol - likely defer from v3.0
- Changes, removals, deprecations for v3
- Remove Kafka consensus
- Remove orderer system channel
- Remove legacy v1.x lifecycle
- Switch to protocol buffers apiv2
- Extract gossip, bccsp, etc to their own repository
- Replace Identity Mixer implementation with updated ZKP crypto
Fabric v3.x potential items
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