Contributor Meetings 2023

January 11, 2023

• Fabric v2.5 update – new ARM images and binaries
• Fabric v3 update – Smart BFT
• Admin SDK project - https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-admin-sdk
• Chaincode builder for kubernetes RFC
• Microfab lab - https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/microfab

February 8, 2023

• Fabric v2.5 beta
• Fabric v3 update – Smart BFT
• Performance doc and blog
  • https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/performance.html
  • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2023/02/16/benchmarking-hyperledger-fabric-2-5-performance
• Admin SDK project - https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-admin-sdk
• Project recommendations

March 8, 2023

• Fabric recent releases
  • Fabric v2.2.10 LTS – dependency updates
  • Fabric v2.4.9 – fixes including orderer cert renew without system channel

• Next Fabric release – v2.5.0-beta available
  • Purge history of private data
  • Dependency updates
  • Next LTS release
  • ARM binaries and images (relief for M1!)
  • Remaining issue – update MSP for Go 1.19 - https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/pull/3774

• Fabric v3 development - SmartBFT
  • First pass of end-to-end integration merged in main branch, planning on an early tech preview release - v3.0.0-preview?
  • Then will tackle some of the larger refactoring around “inversion of control” for orderer binaries per consensus algorithm (Raft, SmartBFT)
  • Need to address Raft CI failures in unit tests and integration tests

• Admin SDK for chaincode and channel management
  • Developing a Go admin SDK - https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-admin-sdk

• New Hyperledger lab for Fabric Ansible Collection
  • Automate the building of Hyperledger Fabric networks, uses fabric-operator lab
  • https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-ansible-collection