Solana Labs is taking steps to ensure network reliability and uptime by making improvements to its software upgrade process, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko announced on Tuesday. The changes come in response to issues that arose from the 1.14 network update, which focused on improving speed and scale.
“Delivering a fast, reliable and scalable network in order to move toward a better, decentralized web remains a top priority,” Yakovenko said. “The issues around last week’s 1.14 network update – which focused on improvements for speed and scale – made it clear how maintaining stability during these major updates remains a challenge.”
Prior to the 1.14 release, core engineers had been working to fix problems that were impacting the network’s speed and usability, such as invalid gas metering, lack of flow control for transactions, and lack of fee markets, among other more technical issues. These issues were prioritized to improve user experience.
To improve the stability of future updates, core engineers plan to bring in additional external developers and auditors to test and find exploits. They will also form an adversarial team comprising almost a third of the Solana Labs core engineering team. The core engineers will continue to support external core engineers, including Jump Crypto’s Firedancer team, which is building a second validator client.
The core engineers will also work to improve the restart process by making nodes automatically discover the latest confirmed slot and share the ledger with each other if it is missing. Solana Labs and third-party core engineering teams have been working to improve the network over the past year, with a focus on stability.
“For example, Jump Crypto’s Firedancer team is building a second validator client to increase the network’s throughput, efficiency, and resiliency. Mango DAO developers are focused on the tooling needed to build on Solana,” Yakovenko said.
The recent outage on the Solana blockchain was a major setback for the project. Developers said the reason for the network-wide outage over the weekend was still unclear but investigations are ongoing.
In order to ensure that future updates are more stable, Solana Labs is taking a proactive approach to network reliability and uptime. The core engineers plan to bring in additional external developers and auditors to test and find exploits. They will also form an adversarial team, comprising almost a third of the Solana Labs core engineering team, to ensure that the network is robust and secure.
The core engineers will also work to improve the restart process by making nodes automatically discover the latest confirmed slot and share the ledger with each other if it is missing. This will help them to maintain the network’s stability during major updates.
Solana Labs and third-party core engineering teams have been working to improve the network over the past year, with a focus on stability. This includes the Firedancer team from Jump Crypto, which is building a second validator client to increase the network’s throughput, efficiency, and resiliency. Mango DAO developers are also working to create the tooling needed to build on Solana.
The recent outage on the Solana blockchain was a major setback for the project, but Solana Labs is taking steps to ensure network reliability and uptime by making improvements to its software upgrade process. This includes bringing in additional external developers and auditors to test and find exploits, as well as forming an adversarial team to ensure that the network is robust and secure. Additionally, the core engineers are working to improve the restart process by making nodes automatically discover the latest confirmed slot and share the ledger with each other if it is missing.
By taking these steps, Solana Labs is hoping to avoid similar outages in the future and ensure that their network is stable and reliable. This will help them to move toward a better, decentralized web and provide a better user experience for their users.