XRP Ledger Retires Five Long-Active Amendments Without Affecting Users
Ripple's XRP Ledger has retired five long-active protocol amendments in version 3.3.0, but users are unaffected by this change.
The retired amendments include Clawback, fixDisallowIncomingV1, fixInnerObjTemplate, fixNFTokenReserve, and fixUniversalNumber, but their post-activation behavior remains unchanged.
Ripple software engineer Mayukha Vadari explained that retirement removes old pre-amendment code left behind after a protocol change has operated for years, but the amended behavior itself stays in place.
The XRP Ledger amendment system allows protocol changes to be introduced without immediately forcing every new rule onto Mainnet. Validators vote on amendments, and a proposal must maintain support from more than 80% of trusted validators for two continuous weeks before it becomes active.