Cool, as of 2023-09-28 I see:
https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/releases/tag/17.1.0-RC-1-tor.0.4.7.14
594c49e Fix snowflake Fastly and Moat Activity front

What's the best way to instruct users to install this version? From the
F-Droid repo?
https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:47:23PM -0400, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> Thanks David. I think we are looped in on this and will see where we need to 
> make changes to push out the fix 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 7:26 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > This is a heads-up for a problem with Snowflake rendezvous that affects
> > Orbot. In short, the default front domain sometimes resolves to a
> > Cloudflare IP address rather than a Fastly one. If a user gets a
> > Cloudflare IP address, the domain fronting doesn't work, and
> > bootstrapping stalls with "broker failure Unexpected error, no answer"
> > in the tor log.
> >
> > https://forum.torproject.org/t/problems-with-snowflake-since-2023-09-20-broker-failure-unexpected-error-no-answer/9346
> > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/000314.html
> >
> > At the anti-censorship team meeting today, we decided to proceed with
> > the workaround of changing the front domain. Another workaround that is
> > reported to work with Orbot is to use AMP cache rendezvous rather than
> > domain fronting rendezvous.
> >
> > https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/42120
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