BAF beta release 0.6.1

What's new in BAF

• R3 Corda Enterprise (CENM 1.2, Enterprise Node 4.4) full variability on credentials
• BAF Hyperledger Fabric network verification document
• Last release for Helm 2

New features

R3 Corda Enterprise

• Credentials are now variable instead of hard-coded, and defined in the network.yaml

Hyperledger Fabric

• Network genesis.block is written to Vault in case of Disaster Recovery Plan (DLP)
• Add a new channel to an existing network
• Hyperledger Fabric network now supports Orderer CLI

Major bugfixes

• Smart contract deployments are failing over the member node in Hyperledger Besu network #999
• Hyperledger Besu re-deployment fails when there is already a network running #1034
• R3 Corda Enterprise needs to have persistent Node volume #1043
• The crypto_script for orderer organization is enrolling the same admin user multiple times in Hyperledger Fabric #1094

Improvements

• Documentation
  • configuration/README.md has been updated for each platform
  • Added troubleshooting guide/verification document on Hyperledger Fabric deployment

BAF beta release 0.6.0

What's new in BAF

• R3 Corda Enterprise (CENM 1.2, Enterprise Node 4.4) support
• Hyperledger Besu 1.4.4 support with Orion Transaction manager
• BAF Enterprise Corda Architecture document
• BAF HL Besu Architecture document
• Kubernetes 1.16 support

New Features

• R3 Corda Enterprise Network setup with CENM 1.2
• R3 Corda Enterprise addition of new organization to existing network
• HL Besu 1.4.4 Network setup with IBFT consensus and Orion Transaction Manager
• HL Besu 1.4.4 addition of new organization to existing network
• Full integration Identity Reference App along with API tests
• Peer CLI creation option for Hyperledger Fabric
• Tessera 0.10.4 support for Quorum
• Kubectl and helm versions upgraded to match Kubernetes 1.16

Deprecation

• No active testing on Kubernetes 1.14

Major Bug Fixes

• Quorum smartcontract deployment fails with a message "check is not defined" #873
• Deploy smartcontracts on quorum network using BAF build image #880
• Docker build fails while creating custom agent for Aries #866
• Indy RefApp is not suitable for running on Cluster #865
• Gaps in documentation for features updated in release 4 and 5 #790
• Vault auth list check is incorrect #750

List of all bugs fixed in the release can be found here

Improvements

• All platforms
  • Upgrading to HAProxy-ingress controller version v0.9.1
• Quorum
  • Updated Tessera to official release version 0.10.4
• Molecule Test
  • Added molecule test scenarios for HL Fabric vault roles
  • Added molecule test scenarios for R3 Corda vault role
  • Added channel-artifacts molecule test scenario in HL Fabric
• Documentation
  • Added BAF current roadmap section with release history section

BAF beta release 0.5.0

What's new in BAF

• Hyperledger Fabric 2.0.0 support
• R3 Corda 4.4 support
• Aries Indy App integration
• Quorum Supplychain ref. app integration
• CI Automation using Travis
• CD Automation using Jenkins (deploy to private Kubernetes cluster)

New Features

• Hyperledger Fabric
  • Support for RAFT consensus for both 1.4.4 and 2.0.0
• R3 Corda
  • Added support for deployment on Minikube
• Quourm
  • Automated deployment of smart contracts
  • Support for dynamic addition of new node in the Quorum networks ( RAFT/IBFT - Tessera/Constellation)
  • Support for geth account lock/unlock from config file
  • Support for BAF Quorum RAFT+Tessera on minikube
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Support for Hyperledger Indy v1.11.0

Deprecation

Quorum DLT version 2.1.1 is deprecated from this release.

Major Bug Fixes

#485 Fabric: 1.4.4 Test on Fabric 2.0 - Error on Create Channels
#495 Fabric: Gossippeeraddress should only be used as bootstrap address.
#496 Quorum: Tessera gives error when PrivateFor is used
#497 Quorum: Constellation gives error when PrivateFor is used
#656 Quorum code applies same external URL to all enodes
#508 Quorum: The Tessera database password is saved in release files
#674 Indy: All ambassador ports were not opened on loadbalancer for Indy

List of all bugs fixed in the release can be found here

Improvements

• All platforms
  • Reusing components check
• R3 Corda
  • Add molecule test scenarios
  • Parallelized nodes deployment, reducing playbook runtime significantly.
  • Upgraded CordApps and gradle to support Corda 4.4 build
• Hyperledger Fabric
  • Added molecule test scenarios
• Quorum
  • Added PrivateFor support in deploying smartcontract
• Documentation
  • Update readthedocs operational guide for adding cordapps
  • Update readthedocs command reference page
  • Update readthedocs command glossary page
  • Added a readthedocs guide to create storageclass
  • Added BAF current roadmap section
• Common
  • Automation script setting up developer prerequisites for Windows and MAC OS

BAF beta release 0.4.1

New Features

• Quorum
  • Support for Quorum version 2.5.0
  • Support for Tessera version 0.11

BAF beta release 0.4

What's new in BAF

• Quorum DLT (version 2.1.1) network provisioning with RAFT / IBFT and Tessera (v0.9.2) / Constellation(v0.3.2)
• Support for Hyperledger Indy (version 1.9.2) complete network provisioning
• Support for Hyperledger Fabric on Azure Kubernetes service
• Added contributing guide

New Features

• Hyperledger Fabric
  • Adding new organisation to the network and installing & invoking chaincode for it
  • Option to make anchors peer / non anchor peers
• R3 Corda
  • Improved security by implementing TLS based Doorman and Networkmap charts
  • Option to deploy CorDapps from a Nexus repository
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Added configuration file validation role
  • Added support for deployment on Minikube

Deprecations

• Python2.7 is deprecated. To use latest BAF, Python3 is mandatory.
• Ansible 2.8 is deprecated. To use latest BAF, Ansible 2.9+ is mandatory.

Bug Fixes

• Hyperledger Indy
  • #260 Fixed Ambassador not creating properly when running deployment
  • #439 Added correct check for endorser role creation
• Hyperledger Fabric
  • #165 Fixed multi-peer setup
  • #211 Fixed join channel job failing
  • #312 Fixed adding new organisation playbook doesn't setup environment prerequisite
  • #435 Fixed Kafka cluster not retaining data on reset
• Documentation
  • Fixed readthedocs readme link giving 404 error

Improvements

• Common
  • Added Molecule test suite for Ansible roles in platforms/shared
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Added correct help documentation for chart's value files
  • Added Readme files for configuration, roles and node images.
  • Added more comments in code
• R3 Corda
  • Reset network removes all helm releases now
• Hyperledger Fabric
  • Added checks for peers to come up while adding new organisation
  • Reset network removes all helm releases now
• Documentation
  • Added Quorum secrets, architecture and developer docs
  • Made the configuration file guide more clear and comprehensive
  • Added Indy operational, developer guides and reference architecture

BAF beta release 0.3.1

New Features

• Fabric
  • Support for Azure Disk StorageClass
  • Support for Fabric version 1.4.4

BAF beta release 0.3

What's new in BAF

• Use of private key for GitOps. This enables fully automated playbooks.
• Added "env" (environment) section in configuration file to support dev, test, prod environments.
• Integration with "External DNS" to add domain routes automatically.
• Support for Hyperledger Indy (currently it builds a set of local Indy nodes).
• Improved security of Supplychain App by passing Google Maps API key through k8s secret.

New Features

• Fabric

  • Implemented HAProxy in place of Ambassador for ssl-passthrough.
  • Implemented Anchor peers; all peers are anchor peers now.
  • Changes for Multi-orderer network.

• Corda

  • Corda version supported is v4.1.
  • Improved security by implementing linuxkit images for Doorman and NetworkMap.
  • Update corda components to include Ambassador annotations for services.

• Indy

  • New platform added.
  • Automated network deployment in local environment.
  • Support for Kubernetes baremetal for Indy nodes.

Bug Fixes

• #40 POST /api/v1/container failing for Supplychain App on Fabric.

Improvements

• Updated readme with docs build status.
• Code of Conduct added.

Deprecation

• Corda 4.0 is deprecated.

BAF beta release 0.2

This is the first public release for Blockchain Automation Framework, providing automated solution for the following DLT platforms.

Platforms supported

• Fabric
  • Fabric version supported is v1.4.0
• Corda
  • Corda version supported is v4.0
  • NetworkMap service (NMS) version is 3.3.1
  • Doorman service version is 3.3.1
• Consensus Mechanisms
  • Hyperledger Fabric - Kafka that uses a conceputal configuration in the Raft provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds
  • R3 Corda - allows pluggable consensus mechanisms a notary cluster may choose to run a high-speed, high-trust algorithm such as Raft, a low-speed, low-trust algorithm such as BFT