Last Wednesday’s network four-and-a-half-hour outage allowed the temporary inability of durable non-transactions to resume block production.
Solana has disabled durable non-transactional Just like last week, it provides the facility on its network to prevent future disruptions when it was halted for more than four hours.
What caused the latest outage?
According to Solana Labs, a runtime bug led to a situation where failed durable non-transactions were processed twice, leading to non-determinism. In this case, validators count transactions at two different block heights, with 33% of validators allegedly accepting subsequent blocks in order to effectively halt the network.
The durable non-transactional feature was disabled in the v1.9.28/v1.10.23 release as part of the restart after the 1 June block production halt on the mainnet beta.
This, according to the team, will help ensure that the network does not face the same stall as consensus in case of a bug.
,Persistent non-transactions will not be processed until the mitigation is implemented, and the feature is reactivated in an upcoming releaseManch wrote in a blog post.
Solana is currently the ninth largest cryptocurrency platform with a market cap of over $14.5 billion. The local SOL coin is trading at around $42.55, up over 6% in the last 24 hours.