Release notes

December 15, 2022

New features

Replace observability backend for improved performance and capabilities (more to come)
Support the Goerli testnet for Ethereum (Rinkeby is still supported until end of Q1 2023)
Firefly Fabconnect v0.9.16 middleware for Hyperledger Fabric
Support the Venidium mainnet

Upgrades

Bugfixes & enhancements

Better ensure that services with dependencies are deleted and started in the right order and with the correct concurrency
Enhance tracing of paused services for billing purposes
Improve reliability of Hyperledger Fabric networks
Remove example flows from the Integration Studio
Improve reliability of the invitation system for admins in your applications
Smart contract sets now use pnpm instead of yarn
Performance improvements
Assorted bugfixes and improvements

New features

Bugfixes

New - Insights in your transactions on EVM based chains, via the blockchain explorer Blockscout
New - Hyperledger Fabric Smart Contract Set IDE now includes scripts for creating custom channels using the Orderer and Peer linked to IDE
New - Polygon Edge nodes will deploy using version 0.5.0
Improved - Our ETH mainnet nodes are now ETH2 compatible

New - Hyperledger Fabric Network’s details page now has a statistics/metrics section.
New - Hyperledger Fabric Orderer/Peer’s details page now has a statistics/metrics section.
New - When creating a Smart Contract Set you can choose the Orderer node for Txs validation.
Improved - Pausing/Resuming a service now shows a list of resources depending on the service. You will need to pause those dependent services first.

Improved - Fabric Peer/Orderer version 2.4.3. Now the ordering service does not need a system channel, Orderer nodes can join and leave application channels.
Improved - Avalanche JSON-RPC tab now includes more ETH methods for the C-chain.
Improved - Fabric Peer nodes now connects to the default application channel almost instantly after being deployed. Before it used to take 2-3 minutes.
Improved - JSON-RPC tab now has a type-ahead search box. Just type the method name you want to use, no more scrolling and select.
New - You can now see the details and balance of the faucet wallet for Besu and Polygon Edge networks.
Several bugfixes

New - ERC-721A smart contract template set, providing significant gas savings for minting multiple NFTs in a single transaction.
New - Polygon Edge upgrade to v4.4.
Improved - Significant performance improvements during peak usage
Improved - UI for activated keys on nodes
Several bug fixes

New - Full support for Polygon Edge as a permissioned network protocol, offering a modular and extensible framework for building Ethereum-compatible blockchain applications.
New – Easily manage your databases with Hasura, a backend-as-a-service solution, which automatically generates GraphQL APIs for your data.
New - Sign in with Ethereum. Use your Ethereum wallet to identify yourself and sign in to the SettleMint platform.
New - Pause your services, and the resource costs that are associated with keeping the service running, without losing any data.
New - Indexing modules for ERC-20, ERC-721, and State Machine based smart contract sets
New – Dynamic pricing calculator. Estimate the monthly costs for the services you need to run your blockchain application. Check it out here: https://calculator.settlemint.com/
Improved – more features for the NFT ERC-721 contracts: merkle tree whitelists, delayed reveals, pre- and public-sale capabilities, minting gas optimizations, and EIP royalty. For the generative art smart contract set, we added a new art engine and provenance hashes.
Several UI bug fixes

New – Hyperledger Fabric support for network and nodes (and Chaincode coming soon)
New – Integration studio, a tool to connect your blockchain application to existing applications by simply 'dragging and dropping'
New – Graph middleware, allowing you to index and query the data stored in your smart contracts, and connect these to your applications using a flexible GraphQL API. Including a library of indexing modules.
New – ERC-20 template for crowdsale smart contract set
New – ERC-20 template for meta transactions smart contract set
Improved – more granular API key permissions to improve security
Overall performance improvements & several UI bug fixes

New – IPFS for securely storing and sharing data off chain
Improved – Extended ERC-721 smart contract template with improved NFT’s, IPFS integration, and generative images
Improved – More methods in the JSON-RPC composer
Improved – Error handling and warning messages
Several bug fixes and UI enhancements

New - Protocol support for Ethereum (public), Avalanche and Binance Smart Chain
New - Dubai region added to Microsoft Azure support
Improved - Metrcis on resource usage follow-up and optimization tools
Improved - Network and node monitoring tools, dashboards, statistics and logs
New - Node interaction tools with playgrounds for real-time tryouts (JSON-RPC, GraphQL)
New - Secure private key management to keep your funds and smart contracts secure.
Improved - Consortium management and automated onboarding process
New - Collaboration with team members on your applications
Improved - Predictable usage-based pricing
Improved - Better overall developer experience and new UI

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