{"id":12558,"date":"2024-04-15T12:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solana-team-releases-update-to-address-network-congestion\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:44:36","slug":"solana-team-releases-update-to-address-network-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solana-team-releases-update-to-address-network-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Team Releases Update to Address Network Congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers at Solana have updated their software in an effort to combat blockchain congestion, which has been causing transaction delays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The v1.17.31 release is now recommended for general use by MainnetBeta validators. This release contains enhancements which will help alleviate the ongoing congestion on the Solana Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaStatus\/status\/1779727821834686592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe v1.17.31 release is now recommended for general use by MainnetBeta validators. This release contains enhancements which will help alleviate the ongoing congestion on the Solana Network,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rex Saint John from the Anza client team clarified that this is the \u201cfirst round\u201d of updates, with v1.18 to follow.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rexstjohn\/status\/1779556386386694419\">developer correspondence<\/a>, testing of the release on the <span data-descr=\"developer network\" class=\"old_tooltip\">devnet<\/span> is expected to begin on April 15. However, Saint John acknowledged there is no 100% guarantee of this.<\/p>\n<p>Anza noted that the situational solution to the network congestion problem has caused delays in the implementation of v1.18.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">there&#8217;s zero chance of monday<\/p>\n<p>we haven&#8217;t even established a release candidate, let alone performed the mandatory testnet downgrade\/upgrade compatibility test cycle<\/p>\n<p>we have at least one more release worth of congestion improvements before release candidate viability<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 trent.sol (@trentdotsol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trentdotsol\/status\/1779557232142581767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>About a week ago, the Solana team acknowledged that the blockchain faced a large number of failed transactions. Developers attributed this to a boom in meme tokens and a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-based-dexs-lead-in-trading-volume\">significant increase<\/a> in trading volumes on <span data-descr=\"decentralized exchanges\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DEX<\/span> within the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>They announced a series of measures \u201cin the coming days\u201d to help reduce network congestion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Solana<\/a> MainnetBeta validators: the v1.17.31 release is now recommended for general use. This patch contains enhancements which will help alleviate some of the ongoing network congestion, and will be followed by further enhancements in v1.18.<\/p>\n<p>Please upgrade when there&#8217;s less\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anza (@anza_xyz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anza_xyz\/status\/1779735137800028257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPlease upgrade if overdue staking is less than 5%. Ensure you have time to monitor your nodes after the upgrade and report any issues to MB validators in Discord,\u201d Anza noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Solana has accounted for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-captures-investor-interest-coingecko-reports\">49.3%<\/a> of global investor interest in blockchain ecosystems, according to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n<p>Bernstein forecasts that the network \u201cleads the battle\u201d for on-chain payment adoption. Matty Taylor, co-founder of Colosseum and former head of growth at Solana Foundation, believes the blockchain will <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-predicted-to-surpass-ethereum-in-number-of-dapps\">surpass Ethereum<\/a> in the number of consumer Web3 applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers at Solana have updated their software in an effort to combat blockchain congestion, which has been causing transaction delays. The v1.17.31 release is now recommended for general use by MainnetBeta validators. This release contains enhancements which will help alleviate the ongoing congestion on the Solana Network. \u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) April 15, 2024 \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1159,1134],"class_list":["post-12558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-solana-sol","tag-technical-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}