Weekly Nano Update: 9/17/18

Focusing on Issues with Version 16.0

Hi everyone,

Since v16’s release last Tuesday, we’ve received a number of reports from node operators that they were having trouble keeping their node in sync and faced a growing number of unchecked blocks. Many of the services, exchanges or node operators who faced these issues backported to v15.2 until the issue could be identified and resolved and the network continued to operate normally.

Packets on the real-time network are making it to the OS, but not into the node application. Because the buffer is finite, no new transactions can fit causing the node to slowly fall out of sync.

The developers have been working through the weekend diagnosing the network and working to reproduce the issue on the mainnet. Depending on the source of the problem, the current plan is to release either version 15.3, which will include v15.2 plus the vote by hash fix, or v16.1.

In order to better locate potential issues before they reach the mainnet, the number of nodes on the beta network needs to increase in order to create a testing environment that more accurately replicates the mainnet. We encourage community members around the world to join us in this effort.

I’d like to thank everyone who reported the issues they faced with v16. If you are running a representative node and would like to join our representative channel, please reach out to me on discord.

-Troy