November 2024 – April 2025
This report summarizes the actions and accomplishments of Web3j, an LF Decentralized Belief mission, from November 2024 to April 2025. Throughout this era, the mission made important strides in enhancing the framework’s performance, enhancing person engagement, and bolstering total group interplay.
Key highlights embody profitable library upgrades, a noteworthy LF Decentralized Belief mentorship initiative, and important integrations that elevate Web3j’s capabilities and compatibility. This doc outlines the achievements towards beforehand set objectives and gives an outline of extra developments that enrich the Web3j ecosystem.
The present mission roadmap is public and may be discovered right here.
Objectives Achieved
Over the last six months, the mission has achieved the next objectives:
Improve web3j-android department to the most recent model and launch libraries as Android artifacts – this was completed throughout the 2024 mentorship beneath Hyperledger Basis:Organized the First Web3J Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit – an occasion at which we linked with the enterprise customers of Web3j and picked up suggestions:Join with the group by way of numerous occasions:Solved bugs and closed a part of the open points: Closed 15 open points throughout all Web3j repositories;Carried out, reviewed, and merged over 20 Pull requests within the Web3j repositories that fastened completely different bugs or improved the functionalities, resembling:Repair ENS CCIP, ERC-3668Fix construct scripts on web3j-androidFix Web3j Transaction logic to return the anticipated chainId when interacting with Solidity 0.8.26 or 0.8.27 Clear subscription after EVM websocket disconnectsCatch all of the exception throughout EVM response parsingImprove codebase by fixing Sonar reported issuesExtended ENS integration assist (particulars on this weblog publish):Added assist for HoleskySet Main Identify functionalityManage ENS file metadataManage ENS Service metadataRefactor the off-chain fuel supplier contained in the library to work dynamically: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2142Enhanced Web3j libraries by migration to Java 21, Kotlin 2.1.0 and integration with a newer model of the EVM consumer, Besu:Prague/Electra Improve:EIP-7702 assist: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2178
Different Accomplishments
Besides the objectives talked about above we managed to realize different accomplishments additionally for Web3j mission:
Eliminated “Hyperledger” from the mission identify to streamline the Web3j model beneath LF Decentralized TrustSubmitted and obtained approval for 2 Web3j mentorship applications, which can happen in 2025, beneath Linux Basis Decentralized Belief Membership Program:LFDT – Web3j Libraries Full Growth Lifecycle – This mission goals to boost the core Web3j by enhancing and bringing updated its part libraries as web3j-unit, web3j-evm, web3j-openapi, specializing in lowering present points and integrating the lacking EIPs. By enhancing the extra Web3j libraries, we intention to streamline improvement workflows, improve testability, and create a extra sturdy framework that simplifies Ethereum improvement for Java and JVM-based tasks.LFDT – Web3j: Enhancing JVM Android Help with Kotlin Wrappers for Solidity Sensible Contracts – This mission proposes to construct upon the accomplishments of the prior mentorship by additional enhancing and increasing the functionalities of the Web3j-Android library. Given Kotlin’s prominence as the popular programming language for Android improvement, this initiative goals particularly to facilitate the technology of Kotlin-based sensible contract wrappers.Added assist for Solidity variations 0.8.27, 0.8.28, 0.8.29 in web3j compiler (web3j-sokt) for processing new Solidity Sensible ContractsFixed exterior imports of the Solidity Sensible Contracts for the ensuing Java Wrappers as a way to handle advanced sensible contracts that are utilizing completely different libraries throughout the web3j: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j-solidity-gradle-plugin/pull/78Improved the Java Wrapper sensible contract technology for recordsdata which have duplicate occasion names: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2124Added RPC assist for Linea networks: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2150Added assist for Solidity Customized Error Sort: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2173Released three variations for the library throughout this era:
The previous six months have marked appreciable progress for the Web3j mission. The profitable completion of main updates, together with the numerous improve to web3j-android and improved ENS integration, exemplifies the staff’s dedication to steady enchancment and innovation.
Moreover, proactive group engagement, highlighted by the primary Web3j Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit and frequent contributor interactions, has fostered a extra vibrant and collaborative surroundings. Trying ahead, authorised mentorship applications and ongoing enhancements underscore a promising trajectory for Web3j, guaranteeing it stays a strong, versatile instrument for Ethereum and sensible contract builders.
