diff --git a/pkg/router/router.go b/pkg/router/router.go
index c3d8354eea..ecfdd44642 100644
--- a/pkg/router/router.go
+++ b/pkg/router/router.go
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	RouteGroupDialer setupclient.RouteGroupDialer
 	SetupNodes       []cipher.PubKey
 	RulesGCInterval  time.Duration
+	MinHops          uint16
+	MaxHops          uint16
 }
 
 // SetDefaults sets default values for certain empty values.
@@ -76,6 +78,10 @@ func (c *Config) SetDefaults() {
 	if c.RulesGCInterval <= 0 {
 		c.RulesGCInterval = DefaultRulesGCInterval
 	}
+
+	if c.MaxHops == 0 {
+		c.MaxHops = maxHops
+	}
 }
 
 // DialOptions describes dial options.
@@ -827,7 +833,7 @@ fetchRoutesAgain:
 	ctx := context.Background()
 
 	paths, err := r.conf.RouteFinder.FindRoutes(ctx, []routing.PathEdges{forward, backward},
-		&rfclient.RouteOptions{MinHops: minHops, MaxHops: maxHops})
+		&rfclient.RouteOptions{MinHops: r.conf.MinHops, MaxHops: r.conf.MaxHops})
 
 	if err == rfclient.ErrTransportNotFound {
 		return nil, nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/visor/init.go b/pkg/visor/init.go
index b4553bf852..268237d383 100644
--- a/pkg/visor/init.go
+++ b/pkg/visor/init.go
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ func initRouter(v *Visor) bool {
 		RouteGroupDialer: setupclient.NewSetupNodeDialer(),
 		SetupNodes:       conf.SetupNodes,
 		RulesGCInterval:  0, // TODO
+		MinHops:          v.conf.Routing.MinHops,
 	}
 
 	r, err := router.New(v.net, &rConf)
diff --git a/pkg/visor/visorconfig/parse.go b/pkg/visor/visorconfig/parse.go
index 1cfbd026db..5306e47825 100644
--- a/pkg/visor/visorconfig/parse.go
+++ b/pkg/visor/visorconfig/parse.go
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ func Parse(log *logging.MasterLogger, path string, raw []byte) (*V1, error) {
 	}
 
 	switch cc.Version {
-	case V1Name: // Current version.
+	// parse any v1-compatible version with v1 parse procedure
+	case V110Name:
+		fallthrough
+	case V100Name:
 		return parseV1(cc, raw)
 	case V0Name, V0NameOldFormat, "":
 		return parseV0(cc, raw)
@@ -47,7 +50,6 @@ func parseV1(cc *Common, raw []byte) (*V1, error) {
 	conf := MakeBaseConfig(cc)
 
 	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(raw))
-	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
 	if err := dec.Decode(&conf); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go b/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go
index 9dcdba5dc3..e473ecd4de 100644
--- a/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go
+++ b/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go
@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@ import (
 
 //go:generate readmegen -n V1 -o ./README.md ./v1.go
 
-// V1Name is the semantic version string for V1.
-const V1Name = "v1.0.0"
+// V100Name is the semantic version string for v1.0.0.
+const V100Name = "v1.0.0"
+
+// V110Name is the semantic version string for v1.1.0.
+// Added MinHops field to V1Routing section of config
+const V110Name = "v1.1.0"
+
+// V1Name is the semantic version string for the most recent version of V1.
+const V1Name = V110Name
 
 // V1 is visor config v1.0.0
 type V1 struct {
@@ -70,6 +77,7 @@ type V1Routing struct {
 	SetupNodes         []cipher.PubKey `json:"setup_nodes,omitempty"`
 	RouteFinder        string          `json:"route_finder"`
 	RouteFinderTimeout Duration        `json:"route_finder_timeout,omitempty"`
+	MinHops            uint16          `json:"min_hops"`
 }
 
 // V1UptimeTracker configures uptime tracker.