2023-02-25 05:46:16 UTC the Solana network entered degraded mode (vote-only). This means that economic activity on the network stopped while the network attempts to recover.
Posted 1 day ago. Feb 25, 2023 - 06:00 UTC
A coordinated restart is underway to address an issue during the upgrade from 1.13 to 1.14 that caused block finalization to slow significantly.
Posted 23 hours ago. Feb 25, 2023 - 12:32 UTC
A coordinated restart is underway to address an issue during the upgrade from 1.13 to 1.14 that caused block finalization to slow significantly. (updated issue)
Posted 14 hours ago. Feb 25, 2023 - 21:45 UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Posted 10 hours ago. Feb 26, 2023 - 02:09 UTC
The blockchain started “forking” (creating conflicting versions of its transaction history) at around 00:53 New York time, according to Solana’s Discord server.
Barely heard the news, why is it so quiet here?
Apparently, it has been the nth time that Solana has had similar issues. Do they(communities and developers) have a lower standard compared to other altcoins? I mean it has been happening many times, have they been accustomed to such mistakes within the coin development process, so they just thought it is a normal one and getting used to it?
Solana Labs and independent validators are still investigating the root cause. However, the earliest assumption is that the downtime is linked to a recent Solana software upgrade.
The Solana Foundation released Solana 1.14 and encouraged validators to update to it. However, it appears this upgrade featured a bug that engineers didn't discover during testing. Earlier today, majority of validators had upgraded to the new software, and this may have triggered the bug which led to the underperformance.
The past incident noted the bug in the code was the culprit, this time, the cause was suspected to be the updated new version. Seems testing a system which has a $8,620,532,556 market cap on production is the way to go, isn't it?
