v1.1.0-alpha.txt

v1.1.0-alpha January 25, 2018
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Release Notes
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This is a feature-complete *alpha* release of the up-coming 1.1 release. The 1.1 release
includes the following new major features:

  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-6911 - Event service for blocks
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5481 - Event service for block transaction events
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5300 - Certificate Revocation List from CA
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-3067 - Peer management of CouchDB indexes
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-6715 - Mutual TLS between all components
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5556 - Rolling Upgrade via configured capabilities
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-2331 - Node.js Chaincode support
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5363 - Node.js SDK Connection Profile
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-830 - Encryption library for chaincode
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5346 - Attribute-based Access Control
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-6089 - Chaincode APIs for creator identity
  - https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-6421 - Performance improvements

Additionally, there are feature improvements, bug fixes, documentation and test
coverage improvements, UX improvements based on user feedback and changes to address a
variety of static scan findings (unused code, static security scanning, spelling,
linting and more).

Known Vulnerabilities
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none

Resolved Vulnerabilities
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none

Known Issues & Workarounds
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The fabric-ccenv image which is used to build chaincode, currently includes
the github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/chaincode/shim ("shim") package.
This is convenient, as it provides the ability to package chaincode
without the need to include the "shim". However, this may cause issues in future
releases (and/or when trying to use packages which are included by the "shim").

In order to avoid any issues, users are advised to manually vendor the "shim"
package with their chaincode prior to using the peer CLI for packaging and/or
for installing chaincode.

Please refer to https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FAB-5177 for more details,
and kindly be aware that given the above, we may end up changing the
fabric-ccenv in the future.

Change Log
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https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v110-alpha