XRP Ledger Urges Node Operators to Upgrade After Manifest Flood

XRP Ledger has urged node operators to upgrade to version 3.2.1 after a manifest flood was observed on July 31. Ripple Director of Engineering Vijay Khanna recommended that node operators install the latest version of xrpld as soon as possible.

The update aims to limit how nodes process, store, and share data received from unknown validator identities. According to XRP Ledger Operations, the available evidence points to pressure on node resources and peer-to-peer communications rather than a confirmed loss of funds or failure of ledger consensus.

The hotfix contains four safeguards that cap manifest size, message batches, outbound sharing, and unknown-key cache growth network-wide. Node operators must complete a second restart after updating to ensure old in-memory data is cleared safely.