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Current roadmap priorities

Fabric v2.5 (

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delivered March 2023)

• Purge history of private data - e.g. for GDPR scenarios
• Next long-term support (LTS) release - dependency updates, proto updates, etc
• Announce deprecation of legacy SDKs in favor of Gateway SDKs

Fabric v3.0

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• BFT Ordering Service
  • BFT Block replication and signature verification
  • Remove deprecated orderer components
  • Smart BFT consensus  - early alpha release 1H 2023
  • Inversion of control - ordering service node binary per consensus protocol
• Changes, removals, deprecations for v3
  • Remove Kafka consensus
  • Remove orderer system channel
  • Remove legacy v1.x lifecycle
  • Switch to protocol buffers apiv2
  • Extract gossip, bccsp, etc to their own repository

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• Admin SDK RFC (e.g. chaincode management, channel management)
• Token SDK / Smart Client improvements
• 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)
• ARM support for Apple silicon - images and binaries
• Identity Mixer performance improvement - Faster Idemix curve, issue credentials from fabric-ca, Fabric capability, Gateway SDK Idemix support
• Azure Pipelines to Github Actions migration (CI, release process)