FORK COMING MARCH 31 AND OTHER IMPORTANT UPDATES

1. #1Wayne Collier11-03-2026source ↗
   Three important updates:
   
   Fork coming March 31st. Splice 0.5.11 introduced Daml models that will fork any node that does not upgrade to at least 0.5.11 before those Daml models go live. These models were previously scheduled to go live yesterday (March 10th), but that has been delayed until March 31st to allow resolutoin of a bug in a dependent process on the Sequencer.
   
   Batched and Weighted Featured App Markers are live on MainNet as of last week (Splice 0.5.11). Featured App Markers can now be replaced with a single weighted marker setting a weight equivalent to the nominal traffic cost of the transaction. Multiple markers can also be processed as a batch. Implementing weighted and batched markers reduces your total transaction cost, speeds up transaction processing, and makes more bandwidth available across the network.
   
   This is an intermediate step on the path toward traffic-based app rewards (CIP-0104).
   
   Free confirmation responses also went live last week. This means that if your node hosts parties that are involved in transactions that they do not submit, your node does not need to pay a traffic fee to submit confirmation responses for those transactions.