Solana's Agave 4.2 Activation Hits Target Date, But Mainnet Features Are Still Pending

The long-awaited Agave 4.2 activation on Solana's mainnet has hit its target date of August 17, but feature gates are still pending activation.

Anza, the validator client for the Solana network, recommended Agave 4.2 for general mainnet adoption on August 11, but a delivery update is still missing.

The Agave 4.2 rollout includes significant changes, such as reducing lamports_per_byte from 6,960 to 696 in five stages, which would cut rent by 90%. However, the available material shows that all five gates are inactive on mainnet.

Another major change is the increase of maximum payload for transactions from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes for the new format. But even this feature seems not to be live yet as Anza's feature tracker lists it as pending mainnet activation.