Solana developer relations personnel: Direct Mapping is about to launch on the mainnet

Solana developer relations staffer Jonas Hahn said Direct Mapping is set to go live on the Solana mainnet, urging developers to enable the virtual_address_space_adjustments feature and test all programs locally or on devnet because some programs still show behavioral differences. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko cited the announcement and noted the work took three years. The upgrade matters because it changes how memory is mapped for programs on Solana, so developers need to validate compatibility before mainnet activation. What to watch next is whether remaining program-level behavior discrepancies are resolved and how smoothly the feature rolls out on mainnet.