The team has a new release tagged 2021.02.26.0. This is mostly minor from a Hotspot owner
perspective but there are some major infrastructural improvements which will help us continue to
maintain the code base including an upgrade to Erlang/OTP 23. We also included some region updates
and a snapshot bump.
Support Erlang/OTP 23
Most of the miner and blockchain code base uses Erlang so this is a much needed upgrade to the next version of Erlang/OTP. We are now able to run on OTP 23 and anticipate upgrading to OTP 24 when it is released soon. This required changes to many of the repositories including miner, blockchain-core, and other dependencies.
Build changes to support new architectures
Thanks to the efforts of community member @jerm#0817 (Discord) /
@ke6jjj we've been able to land several updates to dependencies to
enable compilation of our blockchain on FreeBSD and the Apple M1. Thanks!
miner#652 Support Cayman Islands
Thanks to community member @w0ts0n who added support in miner for the
Cayman Islands. I cyah wait to see the network grow!
miner#640 Support North Macedonia
We also added support for North Macedonia so hotspots can use the EU868 frequency range.
miner#656 Bump Snapshot
We have updated the snapshot block to 738001 to allow newly onboarded hotspots to sync faster to
the current blockchain head block.
blockchain-core#732 Speedup Ledger CLI
Small update to help speed up a useful commandline interface that miner operators will appreciate.
hbbft#61 Test Improvements
Welcome to the team @xandkar. First merge that made it to
production!
Plan
We have been beta testing 2021.02.26.0 since February 26rd, 2021 1:30 PM PT. Current ETA for GA is
3:00 PM PST, February 28th, 2021.