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Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits

Mainnet activation is still pending, but incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors must update before the first v1 transaction arrives. The post Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently…

Solana’s v1 transaction format promises more than three times as much room per transaction, but RPC clients, indexers, relayers and fee sponsors that are not ready for it can fail in two very different ways: some systems stop, while others keep running with the wrong resource limits. Solana’s live upgrade page still lists v1 as not activated on mainnet as of Sept. 4. Testnet is active and devnet is live in epoch 1140. A Solana changelog published Aug. 28 said v1 transactions were “coming soon,” leaving infrastructure operators a pre-activation window to update. V1 raises the maximum payload…

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