# July 31st 2026 intermediate releases
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-31st-2026-intermediate-releases/409017
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [July 31, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-31st-2026-intermediate-releases/409017 "2026-07-31T21:13:33Z")
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-31st-2026-intermediate-releases/409017/1 "2026-07-31T21:13:33Z")
Intermediate releases are created to release critical security fixes. For the full list of changes, see:
- [v2026.8.0-latest.1 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.8.0-latest.1)
- [v2026.7.1 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.7.1)
- [v2026.6.2 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.6.2)
- [v2026.1.7 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.1.7)
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### Author:  [@ecki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ecki)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-31st-2026-intermediate-releases/409017/2 "2026-08-01T14:07:38Z")
BTW my “stable” installation was on 2026.1.6 and launcher rebuild now suddenly pulled 2026.7.1. Everything worked out, but this was certainly not an expected upgrade for a “intermediate” release. Maybe i should not have git pulled the launcher project?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-31st-2026-intermediate-releases/409017/3 "2026-08-01T14:09:10Z")
2026.7 ESR was released earlier this week. So it wasn’t the intermediate release that caused the jump.
> [@July 2026 monthly release](https://meta.discourse.org/t/july-2026-monthly-release/408729):
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> For more information on all the changes released in 2026.7, check out: Patch releases for other supported versions have also been released: [v2026.1.6 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.1.6)[v2026.5.2 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.5.2)[v2026.6.1 Changelog | Discourse Releases](https://releases.discourse.org/changelog/v2026.6.1)