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- The project team remains currently working towards its 1.5 Release, scheduled for July 15, 2020. The 1.5 Release is expected to include the following features:
- Performance improvements: Performance is a high priority item for the Besu team at this time to ensure it’s a leading Ethereum space. Some of the improvements will include block propagation, block product and validation, transaction pool management, and JSON RPC query response time.
- Privacy Improvements
- Beam Sync Early Access
- Mining SupportPreliminary Mainnet Berlin support.
- The Besu team is also continuing to focus on finalizing and publishing performance metrics with its work on Hyperledger Caliper. The publishing of the metrics was slightly delayed since last quarter because there remains additional work for the team to get the range of metrics and tests it requires. The team is currently working on this task. We still believe publishing these performance metrics will help provide the community additional context on the project’s usability for a variety of use cases.
- Similar to last quarter, Besu is also continuing to engage with its community and grow the diversity of its maintainer and contributor base. The Besu tea
Maintainer Diversity
Our maintainer diversity remained fairly consistent from the prior quarter. We continue to have maintainers from four different organizations.
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