The short term roadmap can be viewed as a list of GitHub issues with Epic label with more details presented as a Zenhub board. Typically Epics are created after an RFC is approved and merged.
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See prior release notes for release history and content. Prior release documentation can be found in the documentation links.
Current
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roadmap priorities
Fabric
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v2.5 (2022)
- Purge history of private data (GDPR scenarios)
- Next long-term support (LTS) release (dependency updates, proto updates, etc)
Fabric v3.0 (2023)
- BFT Ordering Service
- Changes, removals, deprecations for v3
Fabric v3.x potential items
- Binary chaincode builder - replace default docker builder
Optimize block storage, e.g. de-duplication of certs
Replace Goleveldb with faster database
- Orderer snapshots RFC - similar to peer snapshots introduced in v2.3
Block archive and prune - peer and orderer
SmartBFT - Add transaction pipeline support to improve the performance
Release agnostic items (not tied to a specific release)
- Admin SDK RFC (e.g. chaincode management, channel management)
- Improve Fabric samples (integrate Global Forum workshop content for gateway app dev, chaincode-as-a-service dev, kubernetes deployment; align and prune existing samples; Microfab lab)
- Identity Mixer performance improvement - Faster Idemix curve, issue credentials from fabric-ca, Fabric capability, Gateway SDK support
- ARM support for Apple silicon - images and binaries
- Azure Pipelines to Github Actions migration (CI, release process)4.0 - Q4 2021Purging private data stores for GDPR scenarios - targeted for Fabric v2.5.0 in 2022. Expected to be the next LTS release.