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- LTS release available
- Project developers have been spending a larger percentage of time on maintenance and support than in the past, given the increasing number of production deployments and two LTS releases.
- Lower commit velocity on new features .in core Fabric, more activity around extensions in Hyperledger labs
- Healthy RFC process with reviews in contributor meetings to drive consensus on new features.
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v2.2 is the current LTS releases with patch releases quarterly. v1.4 LTS went end of support in April 2021. Production users are encouraged to use v2.2, users that who want to try new features can are encouraged to use v2.3 and v2.4.0-alpha and provide feedback.
Releases past quarter:
- v1.4.12 - April 23, 2021
- v2.2.3 - April 23, 2021
- v2.3.2 - April 23, 2021
- v2.4.0-alpha - April 15, 2021
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- A feature to purge private data stores, which will help solutions meet GDPR requirements. An RFC is expected so that we can gather additional feedback from the community.
- A feature to unjoin a peer from a channel.
- A more realistic Node.js SDK sample application demonstrating good practices (connection management, error handling, timeouts, retries, etc)
- Guidance for kubernetes deploymentsOpen sourcing of the IBM Blockchain Platform console as a Hyperledger Lab
Additional discussion of Fabric roadmap can be found in this contributor meeting recording.
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