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 0426b4648e..4d78867d09 100644
--- a/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go
+++ b/pkg/visor/visorconfig/v1.go
@@ -12,8 +12,15 @@ 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 {