Amid consistent efforts to continue advancing the XRP Ledger, a major upgrade has been released to fix the network amid rising vulnerabilities.
In a recent post from the XRP Ledger Foundation, developers have confirmed the successful rollout of a major software update to better advance the XRP Ledger.
XRP Ledger tackles manifest flood
The new upgrade has been issued to strengthen the XRP Ledger after developers identified a manifest flood that affected nodes on Friday, July 31.
Although reports showed that the incident had yet to affect the operations of the network, as ledgers continued to close normally throughout, the development team swung into action promptly to fix the issue and prevent similar events from happening again.
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Also, the team has yet to disclose the root cause of the issue and how it happened, but they mentioned that the problem was tied to how XRPL nodes handled validator manifests.
Notably, nodes could accept, store, and rebroadcast an unlimited number of manifests from unknown validator keys before the update. This behavior gave room for unnecessary resource consumption even though it did not impact the network's ability to process transactions.
XRPL's new upgrade introduces four new protections
Following the release of the new upgrade, the network now rejects unusually large manifests, limits the number of incoming manifest batches that can be processed, places a cap on the bulk manifest data shared with new peers, and prevents nodes from storing manifests from more than 100 unknown validator keys.
The XRP Ledger developers also improved the blockchain in a way that unknown validator manifests will no longer be saved to disk, meaning any flood of unwanted data will be cleared after a node restarts instead of remaining in the system.
Dan Burgin
