Solana Releases Patch for Network Restart After Hours-Long Outage

Solana engineers have released a new validator software release, version v1.17.20, to upgrade and restart the Solana network after a significant outage. All Solana-related activities, including trading and staking, were halted after the network stopped processing blocks on Tuesday. Validator operators are asked to prepare for an upgrade and restart of the network, and once 80% of the stake has restarted, the cluster will resume block production. The Solana network has suffered over a dozen outages in the last few years due to the design of the system, which handles all their consensus on-chain.