Quorum Monthly Brief — August 2020

We have done a significant amount of work over the last month.

We released Quorum v2.7 — a huge push from the team. The Quorum engineering team also made enhancements to Tessera, Wizard, Cakeshop, and Qubernetes, open sourced a new tool for stress testing, shipped a Terraform Provider plugin for network provisioning automation, and added new plugins for key management and AuthN/AuthZ.

On top of that, we worked with the team at Splunk to bring the community a new selector for third-party tools in Quorum Wizard — you can now deploy the Quorum Splunk App without leaving the command line.

Developer Updates

Quorum v2.7

Major new features in this release:

Private contract state extension — support for adding new members to existing private smart contracts (Beta)
HashiCorp Vault account management — account management via external plugin with open-sourced SDK (Beta)
JSON RPC API OAuth/AuthZ — protect JSON RPC APIs via a plugin interface (Beta)

Full release on GitHub.

Tessera 0.10.6

Bootstrap mode support
Custom encryptor type (CUSTOM) with Unbound’s UKC as pilot implementation
Logging improvements and catalog log messages
Localhost peer recognition with IP or hostname

Quorum Wizard v1.2

Added Quorum 2.7.0
Windows support — run the wizard on Windows to generate docker-compose or kubernetes networks
Splunk as optional third-party tool alongside docker-compose networks

Update via:

npm install -g quorum-wizard
# or without installing:
npx quorum-wizard

Qubernetes v0.1.3

Cakeshop support — easily deployed via qubernetes on Kubernetes
Prometheus geth/quorum metrics collection
Grafana docker-compose dashboard for optional deployment

Quorum Profiling Tool (Open Sourced)

A new stress-testing tool for Quorum networks is now open source. Use it to benchmark transaction throughput under load.

Get Involved

If you’re looking to host a webinar for your community, write articles that educate developers on Quorum features, get involved in Slack, or produce content that demos how to build on Quorum — the team is happy to help. Reach out at info@goquorum.com.