v1.4.2 Release Notes - July 17, 2019
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What's New in Hyperledger Fabric v1.4.2
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The following features are included in this release:
FAB-15041 - Kafka to Raft Consensus Migration
A Kafka-based ordering service can now be migrated to utilize Raft consensus.
For details see the documentation at
https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kafka_raft_migration.html.
This feature requires v1.4.2 'orderer' and 'channel' capabilities to be
enabled.
FAB-14307 Channel rollback on a peer
The new 'peer node rollback' command provides
administrative ability to rollback a channel's ledger on a peer to a prior
block height in the case a peer's channel data gets into a corrupt state at a
later block height. The peer will re-retrieve the rolled back blocks from
ordering service or another peer upon the next peer start. Note that during
the rollback, the ledger's private data will be preserved, since it cannot
be obtained from ordering service at a later time, and may not be available
from other peers.
Similarly, the command 'peer node reset' command can be used to rollback
all of a peer's channel ledgers to the genesis block of each channel.
Both commands must be issued from the peer's CLI while the peer process
is down.
It is recommended to enable v1.4.2 'application' capability to ensure that all
private data is stored on the local peer (including for invalidated transactions),
in case rollback and reprocessing is required on a peer.
FAB-7559 - Ability to specify orderer endpoints at the organization level
Starting from version v1.4.2, it is possible and highly recommended to define
orderer endpoints at the organization level (new 'OrdererEndpoints' stanza
within the channel configuration of an organization) and not at the global
'Orderer.Addresses' section of channel configuration. If at least one
organization has an ordering service endpoint defined at an organizational
level, all orderers and peers will ignore the channel level endpoints when
connecting to ordering nodes.
Utilizing organization level orderer endpoints is required when using
service discovery with orderer nodes provided by multiple organizations,
so that clients can provide the correct organization TLS certificates.
This feature requires v1.4.2 'channel' capability to be
enabled.
Important Fixes
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FAB-15450 - History database queries do not return all results
Prior to the fix, history database queries excluded transactions from
blocks that were multiples of 256 (block 256, 512, 768, etc).
FAB-15411 - GetTransactionByID does not return configuration transactions
Prior to the fix, GetTransactionByID and GetBlockByTxID did not return
configuration transactions, since these transactions were not indexed
correctly. To fix indexes for pre-existing configuration transactions
on a peer's channel ledgers, stop the peer and delete the index directory,
e.g. /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains/index directory.
The peer will rebuild the indexes correctly upon the next restart.
FAB-15404 - Orderer Kafka TLS Issue
Prior to the fix, orderer nodes could not communicate to kafka if
TLS is enabled.
FAB-15144 - Assorted orderer serviceability fixes
Changes, Known Issues, and Workarounds
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FAB-15031 - ledger.blockstorage_commit_time metric is available on orderer nodes
ledger.blockstorage_commit_time is now available on both peer and orderer nodes,
but only includes block storage commit time. A new metric,
ledger_blockstorage_and_pvtdata_commit_time, is available on peer nodes and
includes the total commit time for blockstorage and pvtdata.
FAB-15549 - Restrict service discovery endorsement computation
If the endorsement policy contains an NoutOf that yields too many combinations
(such as - 13 out of 25), service discovery will not return all possible
combinations to the application (as that number can be huge), but instead will
return a random subset of endorsement combinations.
FAB-12088 - Java chaincode support on s390x architecture
Java chaincode support is not available on s390x architecture.
FAB-12134 - Same chaincode source receiving fingerprint mismatch error
Chaincode installed in different ways may result in "chaincode fingerprint
mismatch data mismatch" error upon instantiation. This may happen when
installing chaincode by using different SDKs. To workaround the problem,
package the chaincode prior to installation and instantiation, by using
the "peer chaincode package" command.
Known Vulnerabilities
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FAB-8664 - Peer should detect and react when its org has been removed
This is a relatively low severity problem, because it requires a significant
conspiracy of network admins, but it will be addressed in a future release.
Resolved Vulnerabilities
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None.
Deprecations
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The following functions are deprecated and are targeted for removal in a future release.
Support for automatically vendoring the chaincode shim into user chaincodes.
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.
For more details see FAB-5177.
Support for CAR chaincode package format
Support for packaging chaincode using the CAR format will be removed in
a future release.
For more details see FAB-14720.
Support for specifying orderer endpoints at the global level in channel configuration.
Utilize the new 'OrdererEndpoints' stanza within the channel configuration of
an organization instead.
For more details see FAB-7559.
Support for invoking system chaincodes from user chaincodes.
System chaincodes, for example QSCC, are intended to be invoked by
a client rather than by a user chaincode. Invoking from a user chaincode
may cause deadlocks.
For more details see FAB-15285.
Support for user chaincodes to utilize the chaincode shim's logger via NewLogger().
Chaincodes that used the shim's NewLogger() will need to shift to their own preferred
logging mechanism.
For more details see FAB-15366.
Support for peer's Admin service.
The peer's Admin service exposes APIs such as GetLogSpec() and SetLogSpec().
Instead of using these services, utilize the HTTP operations service that was
introduced in v1.4.0.
For more details see FAB-15390.
Support for Solo ordering service.
With the introduction of Raft-based ordering service in v1.4.1, it is possible
to deploy a single-node (non-production) or multi-node
Raft-based ordering service with no external dependencies.
For single-node (non-production) ordering services, utilize Raft-based ordering
service with a single node instead of Solo ordering service.
For more details see FAB-15754.
For the full list of improvements and fixes, refer to the release change log:
https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/blob/release-1.4/CHANGELOG.md#v142
