Today is Thursday, so it is time to post our (ir)regular Iroha (bi)Weekly Update!

We’ve merged MST! https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1260 and you can already try it  However, this feature is very experimental, so 🐞 are possible, but we are improving it continuously https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1369, https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1386

Another important update (though it is not a feature): the long-awaited Permissions documentation! https://iroha.readthedocs.io/en/latest/maintenance/permissions.html

Some news about client libraries: Now we build Python🐍 and Java☕ bindings for Windows users! https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1358 Also, we sign our artifacts with GPG now https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1313 Soon we will update our bindings in PIP and Maven, stay tuned 🙂 Also, we’ve added more checks to our stateless validation https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1370

One more secret ㊙️ bindings update: we are working on native JS library https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1375 (no more Node modules!) You can already try it https://www.npmjs.com/package/iroha-lib/v/0.1.1 However this is a very early version, beware the 🐛!

Major CI update: we are reworking our CI pipeline (WIP): https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1392 this will allow faster PR reviews and faster CI checks/test runs.

We’ve dealt with several 🐛, for example, a race condition in block query (it prevented making a lot of queries in a quick succession) https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1396, strange synchronization bug (it prevented the synchronisation between a newly added node and all other ones) https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1390

Now we support dbnname PostgreSQL parameter: it makes testing easier and now we can run tests in parallel. https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1277

As usual, we are working hard on making our codebase cleaner: https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1397,  https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1388, and so on 🙂 

And my favourite part – work of our contributors:

uditha-atukorala have added GetAccountAssetTransactions to our CLI! https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1323 🎉🎉🎉

sjashwin is improving our CLI as well! https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1316

ZeekHuge is working on improving our ironad https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1300

onsjkm and walkero are helping with package names for our Java bindings (https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1382, https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/pull/1340) 

There are some good-first-issues, for example, https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/issues/1362 strange iroha-cli boost exception. We need your help!

Thanks to our community: friends, you empower and inspire us every day!

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