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Hyperledger Besu remains a strong project with a growing community network of contributors. This quarter the team has focused on the ethereum Ethereum Mainnet "merge" update, Library library refactoring, and Quorum and QBFT compatibility.
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There were more releases this quarter than typical due to 4 separate CVEs (one Besu related, three Log4J releasedrelated). The 21.10.x line will remain "open" for security updates until 22.1.0 releases.
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- EVM Library
Work by Hedera Hashgraph has resulted into the separation of the EVM code into a stand-alone library, used by both Hedera and Hyperledger Besu. - QBFT
Interoperable with GoQuorum.
Validators can be managed via smart contracts - allowing operators to quickly change validators if there is a problem (HA). - Mainnet Merge Offsite
Multiple Besu maintainers attended an offsite in Q4 with all the major Ethereum Mainnet consensus and execution layer clients, resulting in an initial proof of concept for the merge. - Privacy code hardening
Addressing tech debt in privacy code. Consolidation of naming ("onchain" privacy deprecated in favour of "flexible" privacy). - EVM Performance
Hedera has worked to roughly triple the throughput of the EVM. - JWT Authentication
Added support for additional (and stronger) authentication algorithms (default was RSA). - Logging and Developer experience improvements
Improvements in response to community feedback. More work to do here.
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Three maintainers were moved to emeritus status due to inactivity (David Mechler, Edward Mack, and Trent Mohay). Seven new maintainers were added (Daniel Lehrner, Diego López León, Fabio Di Fabio, Frank Li, Jiri Peinlich, Simon Dudley, Taccat Isid)
These four organizations who are maintainers includeMaintainers are employed by the following organizations:
- ConsenSys Quorum (FKA PegaSys)
- ETC Cooperative
- Hedera Hashgraph
- Splunk
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Identified Orgs 2021-12-23 to 2021-12-21: 6
Additional Information
None as of the due date for this report.
Reviewed By
- Angelo De Caro
- Arnaud J Le Hors
- Artem Barger
- Arun S M
- Bobbi Muscara
- Danno Ferrin
- David Enyeart
- Grace Hartley
- Hart Montgomery
- Jim Zhang
- Kamlesh Nagware
- Nathan George
- Peter Somogyvari
- Tracy Kuhrt
- Troy Ronda
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