[Polkadot] - Upgrade to v1.18.4

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Blockdaemon

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Posted May 28, 2025 - 11:00 UTC

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Posted May 28, 2025 - 10:01 UTC

Scheduled

Blockdaemon will update all Westend, Kusama and Polkadot nodes to v1.18.4 on 05/28/25. We are updating our nodes due to a release from the Parity foundation. This update applies to all Blockdaemon Westend, Kusama and Polkadot nodes, there will be planned downtime of up to 10 minutes per node.

We have tested the release and do not anticipate any unexpected downtime other than mentioned above as a result of the update. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

If you want additional information please review the release notes here:
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-v1.18.4
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-stable2503-2

Posted May 23, 2025 - 12:29 UTC

This scheduled maintenance affected: Staking Reporting API (Polkadot Staking Reporting), Staking API (Polkadot Staking API), Blockdaemon RPC API (Kusama Native API, Polkadot Native API), Blockdaemon Validators (Kusama Validator, Polkadot Validator), and Protocols (Dedicated Nodes) (Kusama, Polkadot).