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Blockchain H3 Crash Hotfix

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Rahul Garg
Marc Nijdam
Amir Haleem

The PoC v5 update exposed a few edge cases in blockchain-core related to Uber's H3 library. The grid_distance function in H3 can crash in the following scenarios:

  • Pentagonal distortion
  • Mismatched h3 resolutions
  • Hotspots being too far away with no possible grid_distance existing between them

Content​

blockchain-core#325 addresses the above crashes. This fix attempts to calculate the distance and fails gracefully if any of the above scenarios occur.

Deployment Plan​

On December 18 around 10:20 AM PDT we rolled out a 2019.12.18.0 beta release with a hotfix for these issues. We plan to let this beta run for 1 hour then deploy it to the network at large.