May has been a truly exciting month for different tracks that keep the Swarm network going. The BeeJS Track released a new Bee Dashboard version, along with several Bee-js releases.

Important — don’t forget to update your Bee node to the latest 1.6.1 version. The DevOps track deployed the new Bee client, Beekeeper and Bee Helm Chart to maininet.

NEW: Submit your Swarm Foundation Dev AMA Discord questions. See the last section down below.

Read the full update below.

Bee Track

• The Bee team is happy to announce the latest release v1.6.1. The release contains a myriad of bug fixes, codebase hardenings, and a few new features. A particular highlight is the segment inclusion Merkle proofs we’ve now added that paves the way for more exciting features coming up in the future.

DevOps Track

• Deployed the Bee to the mainnet (v1.6.1).
• Released the Beekeeper (v0.10.6).
• Released the Bee Helm Chart (v0.12.1)

JS Track

New version of Bee Dashboard was released (0.15)!

There are many small fixes and improvements

Features:

• add additional information to the stamps overview
• add bee desktop toolkit
• add bee-desktop settings capabilities
• support for bzz.link CIDs when downloading files
• wait for postage stamp to be usable when buying it

Bug fixes:

• app crash caused by inputting non-number characters
• connection health indicator values to reflect the current network conditions
• nested directory upload preserves the directory structure
• remove restrictions on postage stamp label
• show current postage stamp price per block

New Bee-js releases:

Bee-js 4.0.0

Features:

• ENS domain name support for download methods
• Support for specific feed index retrieval

Bug fixes:

• Updated the reserve state interface on the Debug API according to Bee 1.6

Bee-js 4.1.0

Features:

• better error handling when using Node.js 18
• added CID support when uploading content
• support for waiting on stamp to be usable
• wallet endpoint support

Bug fixes:

• modify the ENS validation to work in safari or older browsers
• no invalid amount for stamps

Bee-js 4.1.1

This is a hotfix release to our build setup that published bee-js with a broken package structure.

Research Track

• Began storage incentives implementation

Ecosystem & Community Track

• An AMA session about Swarm Incentives was organised on Swarm’s Discord channel.
• Through bounty efforts for Fairdrive we released the NFT Generator to mainnet. (https://nft.dev.fairdatasociety.org/)[https://nft.dev.fairdatasociety.org/](https://nft.dev.fairdatasociety.org/ “https://nft.dev.fairdatasociety.org/")

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• The next AMA session is happening on 21 June 2022, you can leave your questions via this link.

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