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Bee Version 2.7.1 Release Announcement

Bee v2.7.1 is a patch release focused on improvements to the implementation of the multiple p2p protocol support introduced in 2.7.0. It also includes faster startup times, a crash fix, and general maintenance. The release goes live on March 23rd.

This article was originally published as a pre-release announcement and updated on March 23rd, 2026 to reflect the official release of Bee v2.7.1.

Bee v2.7.1 Released March 23rd

Bee v2.7.1 was released on March 23rd. This patch release brings improvements to the multiple p2p transport support introduced in 2.7.0, along with faster startup times and bug fixes.

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Bee v2.7.1 is a non-disruptive patch release with no breaking changes. If you're already running 2.7.0, the upgrade should be seamless — no migrations or configuration changes are required.

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📢 Operator Notice — Hosting Provider Alerts

The Bee team has observed that some hosting providers may flag node behaviour as a scanning attack, caused by libp2p attempting connections to peer addresses in private IP ranges.

This does not affect all operators, but if your node is flagged, throttled, or suspended, you may need to apply a mitigation.

👉 Please refer to the v2.7.1 release notes for full details and instructions.

More Stable Connectivity

Bee 2.7.0 added support for multiple p2p transports, which was a big step forward for connectivity but also introduced some edge cases where nodes could become temporarily unreachable by their peers.

Bee 2.7.1 resolves these issues. Nodes should experience more reliable and stable connections overall.

Faster Startup

New node startup time has been reduced thanks to improvements in how postage batch data is processed during startup.

Bug Fixes & Maintenance

A crash triggered by invalid batch top-up values has been fixed, a Prometheus metric for node reachability status has been corrected, and some deprecated configuration flags have been cleaned up.

Full Changelog

For a full list of all changes, refer to the release changelog on GitHub.

Need Help?

If you're a node operator or developer and have questions about upgrading, join the #node-operators channel on Swarm Discord.

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