This document represents the current working roadmap for Besu. It is a living document, which will evolve and change over time. In particular the features in later versions are likely to change.
We use the approach of #now, #next, #later used by foursquare, with a slightly different time horizon. Our #now scale is about 3 months, #next about 6 months, and #later is 12+ months.
Now (up to 22.4)
Merge
- Merge testing continues with Fuzz Testing and Shadow Forking of Goerli
- Hive2 testing system released, Besu being updated to participate
EIPS
- EIP-4488 (delayed post-merge)
- add other relevant EIPs
Bonsai tries
- Bonsai GA
- Bonsai Tries: a new database format which reduces storage requirements and improves performance for access to recent state.
Snapsync
- Snapsync release
- Snapsync rebuild the worldstate trie by requesting only the leafs to the peers. The intermediate nodes in the trie will be created locally. By reducing the number of network requests, the synchronization time is significantly accelerated
Client enhancements
- Performance work - investigation of issues around sync, peering and tracing
- Transaction synchronization optimizations, reduces CPU and Memory use for long-lived transaction pools.
- ETH/66 protocol improvements reducing network traffic.
- (done) Vert.X upgrade
- (done) Tracing APIs implementation
MEV Besu
The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs
Add/Update non-mainnet related roadmap items for Hyperledger Besu
Next (up to 22.7)
Merge
The Merge replaces Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work consensus engine with the Proof-of-Stake Beacon Chain.
Optimistic Besu
- The team will be exploring different options for supporting use of the Besu EVM for Optimistic Rollups
MEV Besu
The team will be exploring different options for supporting MEV APIs
EVM Performance
- Continuing work to upgrade the overall performance of the EVM library
"Shanghai" Upgrade
First fork after Mainnet, whatever it is called. Bullets are notional until committed to on All-Core-Devs calls.
- Ethereum Object Format support
- Code Segments
- Jump Tables
- New Opcodes
Add/Update non-mainnet related roadmap items for Hyperledger Besu
- moving onchain-privacy-groups to production status (removing "early access" label)