Another significant release, this version adds support for multiple new protocols, credential formats, and extension methods.
- Support for W3C Standard Verifiable Credentials based on JSON-LD using LD-Signatures and BBS+ Signatures, contributed by Animo Solutions - #1061
- Present Proof V2 including support for DIF Presentation Exchange - #1125
- Pluggable DID Resolver (with a did:web resolver) with fallback to an external DID universal resolver, contributed by Indicio - #1070
- Updates and extensions to ledger transaction endorsement via the Sign Attachment Protocol, contributed by AyanWorks - #1134, #1200
- Upgrades to Demos to add support for Credential Exchange 2.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials #1235
- Alpha support for the Indy/Aries Shared Components (indy-vdr, indy-credx and aries-askar), which enable running ACA-Py without using Indy-SDK, while still supporting the use of Indy as a ledger, and Indy AnonCreds verifiable credentials #1267
- A new event bus for distributing internally generated ACA-Py events to controllers and other listeners, contributed by Indicio - #1063
- Enable operation without Indy ledger support if not needed
- Performance fix for deployments with large numbers of DIDs/connections #1249
- Simplify the creation/handling of plugin protocols #1086, #1133, #1226
- DID Exchange implicit invitation handling #1174
- Add support for Indy 1.16 predicates (restrictions on predicates based on attribute name and value) #1213
- BDD Tests run via GitHub Actions #1046