Besu : 2020-03-17 Contributor Call Notes

2020/03/17

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• Announcement on skipped last call because of ethcc / hlgf
• Housekeeping reminders

• Conferences: 
• ethCC:
• 1.x
• stateless talks- Piper Meridam shootout + will be needed for besu in the future
• Eth2 research updates
• Besu shoutouts and talks
• COVID19 problems
• HLGF
• Unfortunate timing with EthCC
• EEA and DAML talks did Besu shoutouts
• Good presence on Besu workshop
• Not many more coming up
• Upcoming virtual conferences
• Intercon
• Edcon
• Ethereal NY
• Consensus 2020
• Releases
• 1.4 out
• 1.5 planned for Q2
• Long beta cycle had good reasons, but with unintended consequences
• Try to avoid it net time
• Calendar timing was bad, with holidays in between
• ETC was impacted by the long release cycle as well
• MultiTenancy, TLS, Tracing APIs were released 
• Trace-block coming in 1.4.2
• External Kafta and postgres plugins have been released
• Next v1.5
• Performance improvement coming up
• Stateless : on-demand state retrieval, instead of retrieving everything
• KECHACK mining on ETC, phoenix is rolling (equivalent of istanbul)
• Mainnet EIP work:
• Eth2 BLS precompile
• EVM changes
• EIP 1559: fee market change
• Work started for 1.5- probably on mainet by EOY
• 1.5 RC - Shipped before summer
• 1.6
• 1.x work continuation
• Other consensus algos
• Privacy group consensus
• X-privacy group comms
• On-chain privacy
• Certification
• Contact us if you want to participate in the certification
• Next contributor call