Solana has a new official link to get the latest status updates for the three major improvements that are rolling to the Solana network to improve resiliency, stability and performance. They also set this up to clear up FUD and misinformation. Lets have a look 👀
They made the official page here summarising the following advancements being deployed to the network. These changes have been in the planning & engineering phase since 17th Feb 2022 and even as far back as 14th Dec 2021. This is a long time coming and has been needed to address the 3 outages that occurred over 2021 & 2022 with total downtime of 28 hours (source - Austin Federa).
So What are the Improvements that are Rolling Out?
Back in June, Chorus One wrote up a great summary on the changes for QUIC, Stake Weighted QoS and Fee Markets. This is a comprehensive summary and deep dive into the 3 big fixes so check it out!
When are the Improvements Rolling Out?
Stay tuned to the "Status Updates" over at the official Solana website. However, in general these updates are rolling out across v1.10 and v1.11 Solana code bases. You can see the current status of validator software version deployment at the Solscan Validator page.
This is a tricky one to track but Solscan is certainly providing some great dashboards for that also! Performance can be experiential so track total TX metrics may not cut it. Considering hourly TPS average and Success rate is a good measure:
