Release 1.4.0

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Current State

This issue is to track the work needed to release a new version of FireFly at v1.4.0 with all the new enhancements and fixes that have been made.

Components to release a new version if needed:

• FireFly Common - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-common/releases/tag/v1.5.6
• FireFly Signer - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-signer/releases/tag/v1.1.22
• FireFly UI - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-ui/releases/tag/v1.3.2
• FireFly Fabconnect - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-fabconnect/releases/tag/v0.9.23
• FireFly Sandbox - chore: general clean up, Node 22 update firefly-sandbox#131
• FireFly EthConnect
• FireFly Transaction Manager
• FireFly EVMConnect - Update to 1.5.5 FireFly common firefly-evmconnect#171
• FireFly TezosConnect - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-tezosconnect/releases/tag/v0.2.9
• FireFly CardanoConnect and CardanoSigner - Minor workflows fixes firefly-cardano#38
• FireFly Token Connectors ERC20-ERC721 - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-tokens-erc20-erc721/releases/tag/v1.3.6
• FireFly Data Exchange HTTPS - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-dataexchange-https/releases/tag/v1.3.2
• FireFly Token Connectors ERC1155 - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-tokens-erc1155/releases/tag/v1.3.6
• FireFly CLI - 1.4.0-rc.1
• FireFly Core - Upgrade to FireFly Common 1.5.6 #1692

SDK:

• FireFly Node SDK - https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly-sdk-nodejs/releases/tag/v1.3.3

Test Plan

Once we have release the above components, we will create a Release Candidate. This release candidate will need testing:

• Performance Testing
• Manual testing of newly added features

Documentation Plan

There has been significant enhancements and change that warrant some documentation updates. To be broken down as each component is release to understand all the changes that have gone in!

[EnriqueL8]

Release Candidate RC1

https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly/releases/tag/v1.4.0-rc.1

Performance Testing

Started: 8/07/2025
Duration: ~70 hours
Git commit: https://github.com/hyperledger/firefly/commit/

Node Configuration

• 2 FireFly nodes on one virtual server (EC2 m4.xlarge)
• Entire FireFly stack is local to the server (ie both blockchains, Postgres databases, etc)
• Single geth node with 2 instances of evmconnect
• Maximum time to confirm before considering failure = 1 minute

Summary

INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.124] Shutdown summary:
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric sent_mints_total        = 226261.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric sent_mint_errors_total  = 0.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric mint_token_balance      = 0.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric received_events_total   = 14432110.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric incomplete_events_total = 0.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric delinquent_msgs_total    = 0.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Prometheus metric actions_submitted_total = 6989966.000000
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Test duration: 69h46m54.825379558s
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.125]  - Measured actions: 28864209
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.126]  - Measured send TPS: 114.925878
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.126]  - Measured throughput: 114.898508
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.126]  - Measured send duration: min: 7.230144ms, max: 2.364260864s, avg: 142ms
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.126]  - Measured event receiving duration: min: 2.009683151s, max: 24.594963367s, avg: 6.824s
INFO[2025-07-11T11:15:44.126]  - Measured total duration: min: 2.009683151s, max: 24.594963367s, avg: 6.824s

instances.yml

wsConfig:
  wsPath: /ws
  readBufferSize: 16000
  writeBufferSize: 16000
  initialDelay: 250ms
  maximumDelay: 30s
  initialConnectAttempts: 5
  heartbeatInterval: 5s

instances:
  - name: long-run
    tests: [{"name": "msg_broadcast", "workers":50},{"name": "msg_private", "workers":50},{"name": "blob_broadcast", "workers":30},{"name": "blob_private", "workers":30},{"name": "custom_ethereum_contract", "workers":20},{"name": "token_mint", "workers":10}]
    length: 500h
    sender: 0
    recipient: 1
    messageOptions:
      longMessage: false
    tokenOptions:
      tokenType: fungible
    contractOptions: {"address": "0xa538c7646177927f59f051ebc58f1b8b4539f1ae"}

[EnriqueL8]

This was released already