Solana Tech Roundup #33

Solana Tech Roundup #33

August 26 - September 1, 2022

Solana Tech Roundup

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Proposal Highlight

Upgradable Program Recovery

Documentation

Today if you close a program, the program and associated accounts cannot be recovered. This proposes a way to recovery upgradable programs, making the funds not entirely lost in the case of accidental closure.

The proposal is still being discussed. Join the discussion on Github!

Commit Highlights

List of Changes

August 26

August 28

August 29

August 30

  • Featurize spinner in rpc-client and tpu-client
    • The client progress bars pull in dependencies that are only useful when building a command-line. Wrap spinner module and client methods that use it in a spinner feature in rpc-client and tpu-client

August 31

September 1