Announcements
The Hyperledger Fabric v3.0.0-beta has been released. The major feature in v3.0.0 is the Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) ordering service based on the SmartBFT consensus library. Hyperledger Fabric has utilized a Raft crash fault tolerant (CFT) ordering service since version v1.4.1. While the Raft CFT ordering service will continue to be available, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) ordering service can withstand not only crash failures, but also a subset of nodes behaving maliciously. Consider using the BFT orderer if true decentralization is required, where up to and not including a third of the parties running the orderers may not be trusted due to malicious intent or being compromised. For more about what's in the beta release, check out the note on the Fabric list.
Code & Projects
Hyperledger Bevel
The maintainers of Hyperledger Bevel are starting work on a Kubernetes Operator for Hyperledger Besu and they're looking for your help. They currently have a Helm based operator only and are looking to evolve that into a complete operator for Hyperledger Besu as a way to make deploying Besu networks easier and quicker. If you're interested, check out the recording of their recent meetup about Deploying Production Networks with Hyperledger Bevel Helm Charts and check out the new repo for the bevel-operator-besu development.
Hyperledger Iroha
The Hyperledger Iroha project is putting out a call for contributors. Iroha is a straightforward distributed ledger technology (DLT), inspired by Japanese Kaizen principle — eliminate excessiveness (muri) and it is being used in a production central bank digital payment system. If you're interested in the opportunity, check out the Iroha Tutorial to get familiar with what it does and then pick up a good first issue to start contributing.
Noteworthy Pull Requests
Articles, Training & Tutorials
If you're interested in learning about the newest Hyperledger project, join us for an in depth technical deep dive about Web3j in English on Thursday, March 28. Web3j is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network.
Events
You can find more Hyperledger calls and other events listed on the community calendar.
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