Release notes

August 8, 2022

• 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.

July 12, 2022

• 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

June 8, 2022

• 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

March 29, 2022

• 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

January 25, 2022

• 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

January 17, 2022

• New – Public testnets for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and Binance Smart Chain
• New - ERC-721 template for NFT trading cards
• Improved - Node authentication options
• Improved – Resource usage tracking for scaled cluster services
• Overall performance improvements
• Several bug fixes and UI enhancements

November 16, 2021

• New - Polygon support
• New - Fund your private keys and check balances

November 2, 2021

• 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

October 17, 2021

• 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