Beam Hotfix — Fierce Fermion 6.2.12508 — Release Notes
Release Date: 22nd December
In the 6.2.12491 version release we introduced a bug that caused transactions to be resent unnecessarily between nodes. As a result, number of repeated transactions in the network caused unusual load that in turn resulted in some delays in block creation time. The bug was introduced during the refactoring needed to support High Frequency transaction mechanism.
Immediately after discovering the issue, we have released a Hotfix for the bug (6.2.12495) however we have also recognized that some potential problems within the implementation of the Dandelion protocol that is used to obfuscate the transaction source. We have decided to release an additional Hotfix to address this issue.
It is recommended for everyone to upgrade to the latest version.
Fixes
- Reworked transaction distribution in the stem phase of the Dandelion protocol
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”
- Go to https://keybase.io/beammw and get the Public PGP key.
- Download the signed binary file (with extension .asc) you want to verify.
- Verify the signature using PGP Suite or any other PGP verification tools
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