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
- 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, working on docs and sample for 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
April 5, 2023
- Fabric v2.5.0 released
- Purge history of private data
- Dependency updates
- ARM binaries and images (relief for M1!) - same updates in Fabric CA v1.5.6
- Current LTS release - Users should evaluate upgrade from prior v2.2 LTS release
- Legacy SDK deprecation
- The legacy Fabric SDKs are deprecated.
- Fabric SDK for Node v2.2, Fabric SDK for Java v2.2, Fabric SDK for Go v1.0
- Users of the legacy SDKs are encouraged to evaluate the Fabric Gateway client API as a replacement.
- Fabric Gateway client API is the recommended SDK for client applications when using Fabric v2.4 or v2.5
- Available in Go, Node, and Java programming languages.
Fabric Gateway information - https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.5/whatsnew.html#fabric-gateway
Fabric Gateway client API documentation - https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-gateway/
Fabric Gateway client API migration guide https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-gateway/migration
- The legacy Fabric SDKs are deprecated.
- Current Fabric priorities
- v2.2.11 - Update Go to v1.20; update other dependencies for prior LTS release
- v3.0 preview for SmartBFT - Create usage documentation and sample
- Fix Raft unit test and integration test CI flake failures
- fabric-samples and fabric-test CI streamlining - reduce redundant tests
- New issue template - https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/issues/4143
- Admin SDK
May 3, 2023
- Fabric releases
- Fabric v2.2.11 released - update to Go 1.20.3 and other dependencies to resolve vulnerabilities (prior LTS release)
- Fabric v2.5.1 released - update to Go 1.20.3 (current LTS release)
- Current Fabric priorities
- v3.0 preview for SmartBFT - Create usage documentation and sample
- Fix Raft unit test and integration test CI flake failures
- fabric-samples test-network-k8s - Tatsuya Sato volunteered to fix issues with v2.5 and maintain going forward
- Improve CI time
- Trial of large runners in fabric and fabric-samples main branches working well - no queueing, faster execution
- fabric-samples and fabric-test CI streamlining - reduce redundant tests
- Admin SDK
May 31, 2023
- Fabric releases
- Fabric v2.5.2 coming soon - fixes and update to Go 1.20.4 (current LTS release)
- Current Fabric priorities
- v3.0 preview for SmartBFT - Create usage documentation and sample
- Fix Raft unit test and integration test CI flake failures
- fabric-samples test-network-k8s - DONE - Updated to v2.5, thanks to new fabric-samples maintainer Tatsuya Sato!
- Improve CI time
- Trial of large runners in fabric and fabric-samples main branches working well - no queueing, faster execution
- fabric-samples and fabric-test CI streamlining - reduce redundant tests
- Admin SDK
- We have new feature request which blocks tag v0.0.0 release.
- We are looking for use case for example, https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-cli or https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-operator/tree/main
- Waiting for https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-config/issues/53 if there any chance for invoke fabric-config.