Blockchain Release: Stability and Performance Updates

The core developers have tagged a new 2021.08.31.1 Hotspot firmware release which contains major blockchain and libp2p stability and performance updates. This is a mandatory release for all hotspot manufacturers to continue syncing the blockchain.

• Related PRs

  • miner#1017: Add european router
  • miner#1010: Parameterize transaction validation width
  • blockchain-core#975: Explicitly purge duplicated transactions from cache whilst purging mined txns
  • blockchain-core#972: All around fixes for HIP-28 support
  • blockchain-core#912: Fix snapshot types and upgrades
  • blockchain-core#947: Introduce listen_addresses parameter to specify listen IP. Thanks @PaulVMo!
  • blockchain-core#963: Speedup POC transaction validation
  • blockchain-core#964: Fix the consensus rewards to take net emissions into account
  • blockchain-core#967: Make partial snapshot loads very obvious and avoidable
  • blockchain-core#962: Log for absorb_and_commit height. Thanks @syuan100!
  • blockchain-core#956: Precalculate densities for HIP-17
  • blockchain-core#926: Add support for net emissions

  • blockchain-core#922: HIP-28 consensus reward calculate grace period. Thanks @PaulVMo!

  • libp2p#377: Don’t pay attention to bogon observed IPs
  • libp2p#378: Continue to monitor IP changes even after NAT type is resolved
  • libp2p#379: Handle race between resolving static nat and port forward

Plan

We have been beta testing 2021.08.31.1 since Aug 31st, 2021 1:00 PM PST. Current ETA for GA is 11:00 AM PST, Sept 1st, 2021.