Marinade said Agave 4.3 has a skipped-slot issue, and related validator penalties will not be deducted before the fix is released.
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Marinade, due to Agave the client’s skipped-slot issue, exempts relevant validators from bond deductions
PANews October 27 reported that Solana the staking protocol Marinade stated that nodes running Alpenglow Agave 4.3.2 skip approximately half of the slots during the first block-producing window of each Epoch, and that the fix has been merged but not yet released. Before the fix is released, the protected staking rewards mechanism (PSR) will not deduct validator bonds for these slots, and the staking auction market (SAM) will not count them as failing to meet the online-rate requirement. Marinade emphasized that validators should not be held responsible for client defects.
Marinade said that nodes running Alpenglow Agave 4.3.2 skip approximately half of the slots during the first block-production window of each Epoch.
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The fix has been merged, but the fixed version has not yet been released.
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Before the fixed version is released,PSR will not deduct validator penalties for these slots, and SAM will not count them as failing to meet the online-rate threshold.
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Marinade said that validators should not be held responsible for client defects.
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Some nodes running the specified client version miss approximately half of their block-production opportunities at the beginning of each Epoch. Marinade is temporarily neither deducting penalties nor determining that the online rate fails to meet the threshold because of this issue.
Why it matters to readers
This concerns validator block-production performance, penalty deductions, and online-rate calculations.
Validators are nodes that help the network produce blocks and maintain operations; slots can be understood as block-production opportunities scheduled by the network.
Risks and unknowns
The fixed version has not yet been released, and it is unclear when the issue will be fully resolved.
The evidence does not specify the number of affected validators or whether the issue has expanded.
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