diff --git a/meshtastic/mesh.options b/meshtastic/mesh.options
index 49dd597..a6c22da 100644
--- a/meshtastic/mesh.options
+++ b/meshtastic/mesh.options
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 *MyNodeInfo.air_period_tx       max_count:8
 *MyNodeInfo.air_period_rx       max_count:8
 
+*MyNodeInfo.firmware_edition int_size:8
+
 # Note: the actual limit (because of header bytes) on the size of encrypted payloads is 251 bytes, but I use 256
 # here because we might need to fill with zeros for padding to encryption block size (16 bytes per block)
 *MeshPacket.encrypted max_size:256