Solana’s Mainnet Update v1.17.31 Deployed to Address Network Congestion Issues
The Solana developers have released a significant update aimed at addressing urgent network congestion issues. This highly-anticipated update seeks to improve the efficiency of the network, which has become a hot topic of discussion in recent months due to major congestion problems.
Congestion and Security Issues
Solana has already faced several outages. For example, in February, the network was offline for several hours before developers were able to restore it.
In recent months, many users have also complained about the inability to carry out transactions due to frequent network congestion. Recently, the Solana network was practically unusable at certain times, with frequent transaction failures.
Update Arrives to Solve the Problem
To combat these congestion issues, a mainnet update, v1.17.31, has been deployed. Notable changes include the use of smallvec to aggregate segments, saving packet allocation, a redirection filter for BankingStage, low-stake node handling as non-staked in the QOS streamer, and tightening of minimal flows per 100ms for a staked node.
Anza, a Solana developer, also requested validators to switch to this latest fix only when the share of ‘bad staking’ is below 5%.
