The core developers have tagged a new 2021.11.10.0 Hotspot firmware release which includes
critical bug fixes, supplementary code for finalizing activation of POC V11 related chain variables,
packet transmission and blockchain-etl fixes.
This is a mandatory release for manufacturers to support the packet transfer fixes that were applied but also to ingest chain variables which will be applied once validators and other nodes are upgraded to a matching release. We intend to re-release PoCv11 tomorrow afternoon PT pending confirmation from sufficient manufacturers.
Proof-of-Coverage v11 Activation
The core developers are planning to re-release Proof-of-Coverage v11 tomorrow. We will follow up on Discord with an exact time but we're looking at the following changes:
poc_versionto11. This activates PoCv11fspl_lossset1.0. This sets the loss factor due to air permeability and permittivity. At this value, It is assumed that there is no loss that is to be expected. Values greater than1.0assume some loss is expected. This value can be adjusted at a later date through a governance change.
These variables have also been implemented but will remain unset until a future governance change proposes modification.
poc_distance_limit. We believe this should be set to something reasonable as the FSPL curve starts to be less useful at great distances but given the feedback from the community, we'll keep this turned off.witness_reward_decay_rate: Can be used in the future to apply a soft cap on witness rewards for an individual Hotspot within an epoch.witness_reward_decay_exclusion: Associated with the other variable to provide a "grace" number of witnesses per epoch.
Related PRs
miner#1194: Ignore lorawan packets that are too short to be valid
miner#1192: Fix lorawan routing crash when packet has no payload
miner#1187: Recalculate regulatory domain on var txn
miner#1187: Recalculate regulatory domain on var txn
miner#1186: Adjust sizes downward for global caches
miner#1185: Drop 0.0 frequency witnesses
miner#1181: Allow configuration of rockdb cache sizes
blockchain-core#1085: Catch unknown_region explicitly
blockchain-core#1080: Convert POCV11 regions into helium-proto enum values
blockchain-core#1079: Handle missing region definitions to fix blockchain-etl
blockchain-core#1077: Discard 0.0 freq witnesses behind chain variable
blockchain-core#1076: Fix segfault on rocksdb seek
blockchain-core#1075: Handle witness crash in tagged_path_elements
blockchain-core#1074: Fix blockchain_state_channels worker hangup
blockchain-core#1061: Evict rejected gateways from state channel
Plan
We have been beta testing 2021.11.10.0 since November 10, 2021 12:15 PM PT. Current ETA for GA is
3:30 PM PT, November 10, 2021.