This is the first network update to address the weeks of congestion that created Solana. incredibly difficult to use It was released late for validators early Monday.
Anza, a development team spun off from Solana Labs earlier this year, announced overnight the v1.17.31 release of its Agave verification client, which runs on computers supporting the Solana network.It was released Contains initial fixes for congestion issues.
This is not a single fix for an issue that has plagued the network recently, but rather a first step with more fixes to come. According to Anza, the update “includes improvements to help alleviate ongoing network congestion, and additional improvements will follow in v1.18.”
Solana’s network issues preventing transaction attempts and other basic use casesI came in the meantime Meme Coin Transactions Increase And other tokens on the network. However, there are other potential causes at play, including the Solana protocol. Similar to Bitcoin miningThere are also accusations that infrastructure companies are exploiting bugs to gain an advantage.
The Solana Foundation said the network’s problems are due to “known bottlenecks in the QUIC implementation used by the Agave validator client,” according to Austin Federa, the organization’s director of strategy. tweeted last week. This was planned to be fixed in the future, but problems arose due to increased network demand.
Anza has been testing the update in recent days and deployed a version to the Solana testnet on Friday. Ask a question to a validator Upgrade as soon as possible. There is no official schedule for the v1.18 upgrade, but developers are already warning that this upgrade will not be a panacea either.
“Will this ‘solve all Solana congestion?’ no. Initial testing has shown that validators’ fee collection (selecting more valuable recipients (transactions)) improves.” Rex St., Anza John tweeted. “We won’t know the full impact until we actually test it.”
According to data from Blockchain Explorer, one-third of all validators are currently running version v1.17.31 of the validator client. Solana Beach. Version 1.17.28 is the most popular among validator operators, running on nearly 49% of all systems.
editor: Ryan Ozawa.
