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Releases, the monthly development report and the state of the network — newest first.
LatestBee Version 2.8.3 Release Announcement
Releases
Bee Version 2.8.3 Release Announcement
Bee v2.8.3 is now available. It includes security fixes, and all node operators should upgrade as soon as possible. It also lets operators pause redistribution without a restart, fixes a bug that could silently stop uploads, and makes reserve sampling much lighter on memory.
Development updates
Bee Version 2.8.2 Release Announcement
Bee v2.8.2 is a security-hardening release, focused on keeping nodes running when the data they receive is not what it claims to be. It is available now, and every node operator should upgrade.
Development updates
Bee Version 2.8.1 Release Announcement
Bee v2.8.1 is a non-disruptive release focused on performance, data durability, and developer experience, with some operational cleanup. It brings faster chunk hashing, crash-safe local storage, reduced blockchain RPC traffic, and a step toward browser-based uploads.
Development updates
State of the network
The month’s rewards, participation and node distribution. Same report, new figures — so the row is the month, and nothing else.
Monthly development update
What moved across the protocol, research, tooling and the ecosystem. The summary changes every month, so it earns a line.
- September 2026September brought work on faster syncing, greater operator control and reliability as the Bee team prepared the next release. Research set a firm direction for moving stamp handling to Ethereum, while SDK and app updates improved feeds, file management and video streaming.
- August 2026August was a month of hardening the foundations while pushing more of Swarm into practical use: Bee 2.8.2 strengthened node resilience and security, Bee-JS 13 and the new Core SDK brought Swarm primitives out of the node and into applications, and for the first time the Swarm Community Call was streamed live over Swarm.
- July 2026July saw Swarm development return to its regular pace after the Bee v2.8.1 stabilization release, with work advancing across the protocol, research, developer tooling, applications, and the wider ecosystem.
- June 2026June was a month of steady, practical progress across the Swarm stack: Bee v2.8.1 was locked in and announced for July 7, Swarm-CLI v3.3.0 redesigned ACT access control, Bee Factory and Gateway kept maturing as developer infrastructure, and Swarm spent a full week at Berlin Blockchain Week...
- May 2026May was a month of hardening, cleanup, and practical progress across the Swarm stack: Bee v2.8.0 shipped as a targeted security release, research moved closer to publishing the tokenomics roadmap, and tooling across Bee-JS, Swarm-CLI, Gateway, and Bee Factory saw usability updates...
- April 2026April's development work focused on tightening the foundations: better performance, cleaner tooling, stronger reliability, and smoother user flows across...
- March 2026March focused on stabilizing the foundations laid in the 2.7 cycle while starting to reshape how protocol work gets done. Bee v2.7.1...
- February 2026February was a strong month of steady execution across the stack: Bee 2.7.0 rolled out smoothly and is already followed by active testing for the next patch release...
- January 2026This month’s update covers progress across the Bee, Research, and JS tracks. On the Bee side, the 2.7 implementation is complete, key issues found during testing have been fixed, and final validation is now underway ahead of rollout.
- December 2025December closed out a focused month of release readiness and ecosystem momentum across Swarm.
- November 2025November brought coordinated progress across Swarm’s protocol, research, tooling, and ecosystem layers. On the protocol side, the Bee 2.7 release candidate is now live on public testnet...
- October 2025This month’s efforts continued to concentrate on delivering the Bee v2.7 release, now in its final testing phase. The work brings several significant improvements...