Discussions from the Solana Validator Community on operations, upcoming changes, and best practices.

Community Validator Discussions

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The Solana validator community discusses updates to the validator client, the validator tracks at Solana Breakpoint 2023, an upcoming community led validator call on June 28th at 1800 UTC, and an upcoming validator educational workshop on July 19th at 1700 UTC.  Next, the Lava Network team presents their distributed RPC network.

CONTENTS --------------------------------
00:00 Intro and Agenda
00:53 1.14.19 recommended on Mainnet-beta
01:31 1.16.1 recommended on Testnet
02:17 solana-sys-tuner removed - tune manually
02:41 Validator events and Breakpoint 2023
03:17 Community led validator call June 28th
03:53 Validator educational workshop July 19th 1700 UTC
05:01 Lava Network - decentralized RPC
13:44 Lava Network Q&A
18:43 Request for validators to report issues

Important Links
1.14.19 release notes: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/tag/v1.14.19
1.16.0 release notes with known issues: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/tag/v1.16.0
Breakpoint 2023: https://solana.com/breakpoint 
Validator mini conference planning doc: https://hackmd.io/@KFEZk8oMTz6vBlwADz0M4A/HJf8_sEwn
Solana Validator Educational Workshops Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK6jKrmn7KOkxRxS9tvbRa5p 
Lava Network: https://www.lavanet.xyz/
Lava Network slides: https://pitch.com/public/c1e8f1fc-26a5-46b9-bff8-644123f91884
Chat logs and transcript: https://solanafoundation.notion.site/Community-Validator-Discussion-June-22-2023-6bffe03c02ba4fe0a05da5df53d00b00?pvs=4



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Solana Community Validator Discussion - June 22 2023