Beam Hotfix — Fierce Fermion 6.2.12495 — Release notes

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2 min readDec 18, 2021

Release Date: 18th December

Recently released 6.2 Beam Node version has contained a bug in the Dandelion protocol causing some of the transactions to be unnecessarily resent through the network. As a result network was overloaded causing some delays in block creation.

The issue was resolved and is available in the 6.2 Hotfix release.

Whomever has installed the 6.2 version as a desktop wallet or a separate node should upgrade as soon as possible.

The upgrade is also highly recommended for everyone still running 6.1 version

Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with Dandelion routing between old and new clients

Known limitations:

  • When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
  • Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments

Points to mention:

  • Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
  • The sender of funds to a receiver’s Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it’s possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.

Verifying release binaries
PGP key: “A6C6 2C9F 5593 1860 AFF8 3BBB 997E AB9F 3DF7 F375”

  1. Go to https://keybase.io/beammw and get the Public PGP key.
  2. Download the signed binary file (with extension .asc) you want to verify.
  3. Verify the signature using PGP Suite or any other PGP verification tools

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