The Zenhub has up-to-date Epics that Besu development is targeting over various releases. See the roadmap tab on the Public Zenhub here: https://app.zenhub.com/workspaces/hyperledger-besu-61fc06f457da1c0017f6347d/roadmap
This document represents the current working roadmap for Besu. It is a living document, which will evolve and change over time. In particular the features in later versions are likely to change.
We use the approach of #now, #next, #later used by foursquare, with a slightly different time horizon. Our #now scale is about 3 months, #next about 6 months, and #later is 12+ months.
The enterprise roadmap is currently led by Matthew Whitehead from Kaleido. To discuss the enterprise roadmap items reach out to matthew.whitehead on the Hyperledger discord server.
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Now (up to 22.1)
Merge
- Testnet participation
- Hyperledger Besu joined devnet3 mid-december and is now on the long lived kintsugi testnet (read more on how to join Kintsugi with Besu-Teku)
EIPS
- EIP-4488 (delayed post-merge)
- add other relevant EIPs
Bonsai tries
- Bonsai Tries: a new database format which reduces storage requirements and improves performance for access to recent state.
Snapsync
- Snapsync rebuild the worldstate trie by requesting only the leafs to the peers. The intermediate nodes in the trie will be created locally. By reducing the number of network requests, the synchronization time is significantly accelerated
Client enhancements
- Performance work - investigation of issues around sync, peering and tracing
- Vert.X upgrade
- Tracing APIs implementation
MEV Besu
The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs
Add/Update non-mainnet related roadmap items for Hyperledger Besu
Next (up to 22.7)
Merge
The Merge replaces Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work consensus engine with the Proof-of-Stake Beacon Chain.
Optimistic Besu
- The team will be exploring different options for supporting use of the Besu EVM for Optimistic Rollups
MEV Besu
The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs
Add/Update non-mainnet related roadmap items for Hyperledger Besu
- moving onchain-privacy-groups to production status (removing "early access" label)
Later (up to 23.1 and beyond)
Sharding
State Expiry
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Now | Node Operator ExperienceRelated releases 24.1.x - Bonsai-friendly Archive Mode - Besu as the Linea client - Sync improvements, speed & robustness - Besu as a Snap Sync Server - Verkle Trie ongoing development - Cancun delivery, Prague scoping/prep Related releases 24.4.x - Public / Private network feature parity (sync!) - Codebase cleanup for better multi-use-case - Packaged PoS images for Mainnet with neatly integrated CL client - Revitalized plug-in strategy, technical documentation | Reduce unnecessary storage
Bonsai + QBFT support
Performance
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Next | Developer ExperienceRelated releases 24.7.x - Besu as a customizable L2/L3 sequencer - Besu on more Layer 2 networks - Prague: dev/test/ship - Verkle Trie ongoing development - Modularity of the protocol schedule - Ongoing performance work | Bonsai archive
Modularity/Enterprise release
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Later | Prague Fork, Client EvolutionRelated releases 24.10.x - Prague: dev/test/ship - Verkle Tries: - Light client exploration - Besu as a customizable L2/L3 sequencer - Modularity everywhere - Ongoing performance work Ongoing Protocol Research
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