What’s New for Oracle Blockchain Platform
Here’s an overview of the new features and enhancements that were recently added to Oracle Blockchain Platform. This document is organized by the date a specific feature or capability became available.
Topics
Release 21.1.2 — February 2021
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Scaling of load balancer is supported |
For enterprise instances, you can now choose between the 100Mbps and 400Mbps load balancer shapes. See: Scale Your Instance |
| Rich history database supports blockchain tables |
You can now store rich history data in blockchain tables. You can also configure rich history at the channel level as well as the instance level, get rich history replication status, and use channel policies to control access to rich history data. |
| Blockchain App Builder for Oracle Blockchain Platform v1.4 |
A new version is available which offers support for embedded assets and derived keys. |
| Block validation utility |
Block validation can be run from a REST API endpoint. It:
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| Audit Log |
You can retrieve audit log information from a REST API endpoint. The audit log is a record of administrative console activity, including actions related to channels, organizations, nodes, and chaincode. |
Release 20.3.3 — December 2020
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Blockchain App Builder for Oracle Blockchain Platform v1.3 |
A new version is available which offers support for Windows. Download it from Developer Tools tab in your blockchain instance. |
| Running Solidity smart contracts with EVM on Oracle Blockchain Platform. |
We now supply a walkthrough for using Solidity smart contracts with EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) deployed as a chaincode on Oracle Blockchain Platform. See: Run Solidity Smart Contracts with EVM on Oracle Blockchain Platform |
Release 20.3.3 — November 2020
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Fine-grained access control sample |
Oracle Blockchain Platform now provides a new version of the marbles sample on the Developer Tools tab of the console. This sample includes a library of functions that chaincode developers can use to create access control lists for chaincode functions. |
Release 20.3.3 — October 2020
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Blockchain App Builder for Oracle Blockchain Platform v1.2.1 |
A new component of Oracle Blockchain Platform to help speed up development of custom blockchain applications. It helps to expedite chaincode development, testing and deployment with a powerful CLI and Visual Studio Code extension. And it enables automated chaincode generation with a no-code/low-code approach for professionals looking to quickly model blockchain applications based on a declarative specification of the assets and their behaviors. Download it from Developer Tools tab in your blockchain instance. |
Release 20.3.1 — July 2020
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Gen 2) support |
|
| Integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | This release of Oracle Blockchain
Platform is tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This
means the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure features such as compartment
quotas, events and monitoring, command line interfaces, and SDKs are
all available to use with Oracle Blockchain
Platform.
See the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation for additional information on how to use the platform: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation. |
| Supports Raft consensus |
In previous releases Kafka was the only available consensus type of orderer. As of this release, Raft consensus is supported and Kafka is no longer supported. With this feature, orderers from multiple organizations can join a cluster, and channels can use different Raft orderer clusters to distribute load and provide better scalability. |
| REST API updates |
There are a set of new REST APIs for Oracle Blockchain Platform Administrative and Application Operations. See: REST API for Oracle Blockchain Platform. Serveral of the previous (v1) Application Operations REST APIs are still compatible with this release (with exceptions outlined in New, Changed and Deprecated APIs). The new (v2) Applications Operations REST APIs should be migrated to when possible. |
| Improved scaling |
After you've provisioned your Blockchain Platform, you can scale the OCPU capacity up or down to meet your evolving needs. You can also scale individual components of your Blockchain Platform such as adding an additional orderer node, or adding storage capacity. See Scale Your Instance. |
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