2.7.0 Released!

[cmmarslender]

2.7.0 Chia blockchain 2026-3-26

What's Changed

Added

• Remote Wallet and new RPC calls

Changed

• Numerous hardening measures and soft fork: Please read our blog post for more information
  https://www.chia.net/2026/03/26/chia-2-7-0-combatting-the-ai-siege/
• Make the mempool a bit more defensive on slow machines
• Harden connection handling and message validation in WSChiaConnection
• Improve register_for_coin_updates
• Early check of proof of space in a few places
• Ignore unsolicited RespondTransaction
• Mempool spend limit
• Harden Streamable.from_bytes() to raise ValueError on unconsumed trailing bytes
• Bump chia_rs to 0.41.1

Fixed

• Fix timelord to skip processing after failed VDF proof validation
• Apply client_timeout to all DataLayer plugin HTTP calls
• DataLayer hardening related to DAT file downloading

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This discussion was created from the release 2.7.0.

[janit]

Well that was fast! (for 2.7)