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Bee Version 2.8.3 Release Announcement

Bee v2.8.3 includes a security fix, and all node operators should upgrade as soon as it is released on October 15th, 2026. 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.
Oct 8 Foundation Development updates

Monthly Development Update – September 2026

September 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.
Oct 5 Foundation Development updates

Swarm Community Call, 24 September – Recap

September’s Swarm Community Call showed work moving from proposition into practice: Bee’s first PubSub implementation, a published paper on deletable content in immutable storage, SwarmID used by 14 projects at ETHRome, and a working demo of AI agents discovering data, paying for access and building verifiable reputation on Swarm.
Sep 29 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 27 August – Recap

August’s Swarm Community Call was streamed over Swarm itself for the first time. The call covered the security-focused Bee 2.8.2 release and the hardening work that follows it, introduced Etherchunk — a practical approach to reclaiming storage capacity on immutable storage — and took a close look at the streaming system that was delivering the broadcast, including a parallel test of an in-browser Swarm node.
Sep 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 30 July – Recap

July’s Swarm Community Call covered the protocol work following Bee 2.8.1 — Hive peer discovery, PullSync hardening, simulation tooling and backward compatibility between versions — a research reprioritization toward network usability, and a community talk introducing Vertex, an independent Rust implementation of a Swarm node.
Aug 5 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 25 June – Recap

June's Swarm Community Call covered the upcoming non-breaking Bee 2.8.1 release in final testing, and an extended field report from Berlin Blockchain Week — talks, panels, The Plural Monolith livecoding installation, a Subcult demo, and DeSci conversations.
Jul 3 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 28 May – Recap

May’s Swarm Community Call covered a breaking Bee 2.8.0 release requiring urgent operator upgrades, a research update on the next wave of protocol work, two Swarm Hackweek follow-ups, and a full EthPrague + hackathon report with bounty winners.
Jun 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Development updates

State of the Network: September 2026

This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for September 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.

Oct 12

Bee Version 2.8.3 Release Announcement

Bee v2.8.3 includes a security fix, and all node operators should upgrade as soon as it is released on October 15th, 2026. 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.

Oct 8

Monthly Development Update – September 2026

September 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.

Oct 5

State of the Network: August 2026

This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for August 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.

Sep 10

Swarm at ETHPrague 2026: From booth conversations to stage time, and more hackathon wins than there were bounties

Swarm Foundation joined ETHPrague 2026 — running a booth, mentoring teams, giving talks, and backing nine hackathon projects across four named bounties, one track award, and four custom Swarm rewards.
May 20 Foundation Events

Swarm Accelerator 2026 Hackdays: Eleven Projects, One Decentralized Stack

For five days in late April, eleven teams formed, built, and demoed projects on top of Swarm — spanning AI agents, decentralized data marketplaces, mobile browsers, food traceability, email bridges, and more. Here's what they built.
May 19 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 30 April – Recap

April’s Swarm Community Call was intentionally different: rather than the usual monthly segment rotation, the call served as a high-level report-out from the Swarm Accelerator Hackweek in Budapest...
May 5 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 26 March – Recap

March’s Swarm Community Call widened the lens beyond pure client updates: we introduced Koss as Swarm’s new Community Lead, shared a short preview of upcoming workshops and conference presence**, then moved into the Bee 2.7.1 patch release debrief...
Apr 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 26 February – Recap

February’s Swarm Community Call focused on three areas: a look back at the Bee 2.7 release and what comes next, a walkthrough of the new “Building on Swarm” developer guides, and a forward-looking community talk on identity management.
Mar 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call January - Recap

The first Swarm Community Call of 2026 focused on what’s shipping next in Bee 2.7, what the Research track is stabilizing at the protocol level, and two concrete ecosystem integrations...
Feb 3 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call December - Solstice Edition – Recap

The Solstice edition of the Swarm Community Call offered a thorough overview of the past half year, and if there was a single meta-theme, it was this: Swarm is trying to make decentralization feel less like a ceremony and more like a default.
Jan 7 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 27 November – Recap

After opening with core development updates, the November Swarm Community Call focused on the fresh impressions from Devconnect Buenos Aires and a deep dive into Swarmonomics.
Dec 5 Foundation Events

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