TREE NEWS update: Anza is urging Solana mainnet validators to urgently upgrade to Agave 4.4.1, warning that unpatched nodes will be forked off the network at epoch 1079, expected around 21:30 Beijing time on Nov. 6. The release applies a minimum loaded-data-size limit to loader-v3 ProgramData accounts.
Anza Urges Solana Validators to Upgrade to Agave 4.4.1 Before Epoch 1079 Fork
The loaded-data-size floor on loader-v3 ProgramData accounts is a hardening measure aimed at a specific edge case in how programs are deployed, and the fork at epoch 1079 makes compliance non-optional rather than advisory. The immediate exposure sits with operators running older Agave clients and with teams whose deployment tooling touches loader-v3 directly, since a missed upgrade means dropping off consensus entirely. Whether validators coordinate in time is the near-term question; the longer one is whether similar loader-level constraints become a recurring maintenance burden for the network.
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