Catalyst Hyperledger Fabric - Version 2.7.0 Release Notes

What’s new

New Features

  • OpenID Connect protocol supports now confidential clients - Enhanced support for confidential clients using OpenID Connect protocol.

  • Chaincode Env Config - Configurable environment variables for chaincode.

  • Chaincode node selectors

  • CouchDB Upgrade - Upgraded to CouchDB version 3.3.

Improvements and fixes

  • CA Renewal Fix - Resolved issues with Certificate Authority renewal.

  • Bug Fixes - Addressed minor bugs and improvements.

Coming soon

  • Backups and recovery - Introducing capabilities for data backups and recovery.

Patches

  • v2.7.1 - Improved logging of the Fabric SDK functionality, more descriptive errors. Enabled log levels.

  • v2.7.2 - Restart strategy for HLF nodes based on a cron schedule.

  • v2.7.3 - HLF API Gateway is decoupled into a separate component that allows it to run as a separate container with no dependencies and scale for better performance.

  • v2.7.4 - Bug fixes. Added verification of the HLF nodes' certificates on creation and update.

  • v2.7.5 - Added the possibility to specify custom environment variables for ChaincodeService.

  • v2.7.6 - Resolved critical security vulnerabilities and upgraded dependencies.

  • v2.7.7 - Bug fixes.

  • v2.7.8 - Resolved CVE-2024-41110 security vulnerability.

  • v2.7.9 - Bug fixes.

  • v2.7.10 - Bug fixes. Automatic refresh of the AWS RDS authentication token.

  • v2.7.11 - Improved restart strategy functionality with additional conditions from HLF. Added support on the UI.