Solana developers tackle bugs hoping to prevent further outages

Solana developers tackle bugs hoping to prevent further outages

Solana developers have tackled the “durable nonce transaction” bug that knocked the network offline for the fifth time this year earlier this month as network activity slows. Developers have fixed the runtime bug that caused the latest outage of the Solana network on June 1. According to a report published by Solana Labs on June 5, Solana’s fifth outage of 2022 was caused by a bug in the “durable nonce transactions feature” which caused the network to stop producing blocks for roughly four and half hours.“The durable nonce transaction feature was disabled in releases v1.9.28/v1.10.23 to....


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