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+title: 2024 Q2 Hyperledger Fabric
+parent: 2024
+grand_parent: Project Updates
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+
+# 2024 Q2 Hyperledger Fabric
+
+# Project Health
+
+Hyperledger Fabric is fairly mature and stable with a v2.5 Long-term support (LTS) release.
+There is less churn and fewer commits than in years past, with continued focus on quality and support.
+New features get proposed, approved, and implemented based on a community RFC process.
+Mailing list activity is down a bit compared to prior years.
+PRs and mailing list questions are generally turned around quickly.
+There is significant Discord activity.
+
+# Questions/Issues for the TOC
+
+None.
+
+# Releases
+
+LTS release:
+- v2.5 is the current LTS release with patch releases at least quarterly.
+- Note that v2.2 has reached end of maintenance and all users are encouraged to update to v2.5 to continue receiving fixes and security updates.
+
+[Releases](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/releases) past quarter:
+
+- Fabric v2.2.15 - February 19, 2024 (last v2.2.x release)
+- Fabric v2.5.6 - February 19, 2024
+- Fabric v2.5.7 - April 15, 2024
+- Fabric v3.0.0-beta - March 14, 2024
+
+# Overall Activity in the Past Quarter
+
+The project delivered fixes to the Fabric v2.2 and v2.5 releases. See [release notes](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/releases) for details.
+
+The SmartBFT consensus algorithm integration into the Fabric ordering service was completed and delivered in the v3.0.0-beta release in March. The SmartBFT consensus algorithm itself was moved into [hyperledger-labs](https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/SmartBFT).
+
+Also included in the v3.0.0-beta release is a new feature to query all approved chaincodes on a channel.
+
+The last remnants of Azure Pipelines were removed, the transition to Github Actions is now 100% complete, and there was much rejoicing.
+
+# Current Plans
+
+The project continues to maintain and keep Fabric v2.5 current.
+
+The project is working through final items required for a v3.0 release:
+- Completion of SmartBFT tests
+- Removal of features that were deprecated long ago, e.g. v1 lifecycle, specifying orderer endpoints at global level, configtxgen --outputAnchorPeersUpdate  flag, fabric-tools image
+- Channel config updates
+
+# Maintainer Diversity
+
+7 of 9 [maintainers](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) from IBM. A maintainer from Hitachi was added this quarter.
+
+# Contributor Diversity
+
+- 53% of code activities were performed by top 7 contributors. Remaining 47% performed by 180 other contributors.
+- IBM contributors accounted for 81% of activity.
+- Of top 10 contributors, 6 of 10 from IBM.
+
+In summary, the project remains top-heavy from IBM but has good depth of smaller contributors.
+
+# Additional Information
+
+[Insights dashboard link](https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/hyp/overview/github?project=fabric&repository=all&routedFrom=Github&dateFilters=Last%20Quarter&dateRange=2024-01-01%20to%202024-03-31&compare=PP&granularity=week&hideBots=true)