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Project Health
Hyperledger Besu remains a strong project with a growing community network of contributors. This quarter the team has focused on Ethereum protocol improvements, including EIP-1559, which went live on August 5th, as well as many performance improvements, included in the Hyperledger Besu 21.10.0 Release, which will be launched on October 26th.
None, at this time. DCO sign off remains a challenge, but we are aware that this request is being considered by Linux Foundation's Legal team.
Hyperledger Besu has completed five releases. We are currently preparing for the 21.10.0 Quarterly Release.
Functional improvements included in these releases:
London Hard Fork - Launched on August 5th
The team has been preparing Hyperledger Besu to be compatible with the next Ethereum hard fork, London. The London Hard Fork included:
EthStats Support
Previously, we launched EthStats support as an experimental feature. We are pleased to share that it is now a stable feature generally available for use within Hyperledger Besu. EthStats provides insight into network health by displaying real time and historical statistics about the network and nodes on public mainnets, testnets and permissioned networks.
QBFT: The New Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Algorithm
The team has released QBFT, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm, building on the capabilities of IBFT and IBFT 2.0. In addition to the benefits of earlier BFT consensus mechanisms, such as stability and reliability, QBFT aims to provide performance improvements in cases of excess round change. QBFT is interoperable between the GoQuorum Ethereum client and Hyperledger Besu and supports networks with both GoQuorum and Hyperledger Besu nodes.
Many of the maintainers have been focusing on continuing mainnet compatibility work and adding cross-client support for GoQuorum within the Besu codebase. Specifically, the team was dedicated towards the London Hard Fork. Significant contributions have come from Hedera Hashgraph, who are working on integrating the Besu EVM into future releases of Hedera's network. Hedera's focus is on performance and utility.
There four organizations who are maintainers include:
The maintainers breakdown is:
LF Analytics from June 22nd to September 22nd
Commits from 2021-06-22 to 2021-09-22: 215
Committers from 2021-06-22 to 2021-09-22: 28 (9 non-ConsenSys)
Identified Orgs 2021-03-23 to 2021-06-21: 4
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