Blockchain Release: Snapshot and RocksDB Improvements

The core developers have tagged a new 2021.11.30.1 Hotspot firmware release which includes recommended fixes to snapshot load performance, underlying rocksdb tuning and other important bug fixes.

Related PRs

• miner#1264: Limit the size and age of rocksdb log files

• miner#1237: Keep checking for blockchain in case of long miner startup

• miner#1229: Add election transaction to local transaction buffer

• miner#1267: Temporarily make more seed nodes static

• miner#1248: Disable fetching latest snapshot on validators (Thanks @PaulVMo!)

• blockchain-core#1133: Fix recovering from corrupt blockchain database

• blockchain-core#1129: Explicitly handle return cases for receipt validation is_too_far function

• blockchain-core#1127: Fix bootup when no genesis block is specified

• blockchain-core#1125: Add CLI handler for fast-forwarding a remote peer

• blockchain-core#1124: Try to use more memory efficent parsing for hexes in snapshots

Plan

We have been beta testing 2021.11.30.1 since November 30, 2021 12:30 PM PT. Current ETA for GA is 2:30 PM PT, November 30, 2021.