Blockchain Release: Blockchain Sync and Snapshot Improvements
The core developers have tagged a new 2022.02.28.0 miner and blockchain-core release. This
release is recommended for all Hotspot Makers.
The primary goal of this release is to address issues affecting a Hotspot's ability to stay in sync, especially 25% of RAK Hotspots and 15% of Original Helium Hotspots. Also included is a new, backwards compatible way for Hotspots to load compressed snapshots. This should reduce the amount of bandwidth required for Hotspots to download snapshots.
Related PRs
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miner#1458: Updates core dependencies
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blockchain-core#1252: Clear sync_pid in state when sync process stops
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blockchain-core#1254: Download and deserialize compressed snapshots
Plan
We have been testing 2022.02.28.0 since Feb 28, 2022 2:00 PM PST. Current ETA for GA is March 1,
2022 8:00 AM PST.