Heimdall v0.5.4 for Mainnet and Amoy

Hello All,

We have released a new version of heimdall-v2 v0.5.4 for Polygon Amoy and Mainnet. This release contains a security fix for vote extensions, and fixes a bug causing heimdall to silently crash when a connection to bor via gRPC can’t be established.

Steps for upgrading Heimdall:

  1. Stop heimdalld service

    sudo service heimdalld stop
    
    
  2. Install heimdall with a version tag, network name, and node type (sentry or validator).

    # Replace the network and node type
    curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xpolygon/install/heimdall-v2/heimdall-v2.sh | bash -s -- v0.5.4 <network> <node_type>
    
    
  3. Check heimdall version

    /usr/bin/heimdalld version
    
    # It should print
    # 0.5.4
    
    
  4. Restart heimdall service

    sudo service heimdalld start
    
    
  5. Restart the telemetry services

    sudo service telemetry restart
    
    

Docker Images

You can find the latest docker images here:

Heimdall:https://hub.docker.com/r/0xpolygon/heimdall-v2/tags

Thanks,

Polygon Team