# Releasing version 9.7 of Octez
**URL:** https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/releasing-version-9-7-of-octez/3547
**Category:** Research and Development
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/releasing-version-9-7-of-octez/3547 "2021-08-07T19:53:30Z")
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### Author:  [@NomadicLabs](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/NomadicLabs)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/releasing-version-9-7-of-octez/3547/1 "2021-08-07T19:53:30Z")
Version 9.7 of Octez has just been released. This version improves how the node handles pending consensus operations to remove costly computations in cases where they are not needed. This should improve the rate at which blocks are produced and propagated.
Full changelog and update instructions are available in the version 9 release page: [Version 9.6 — Tezos (master branch, 2021/08/06 15:12) documentation](http://tezos.gitlab.io/releases/version-9.html)
The Git tag for this release is v9.7 and the corresponding commit hash is _853629c2c4db0003b073cce0dddbfb69e73d3275._ Branch _latest-release_ now points to this new tag.
Note: the Docker images, static binaries and the release page are currently being published and should be available soon.
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### Author:  [@Xelendor1](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/Xelendor1)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/releasing-version-9-7-of-octez/3547/2 "2021-08-08T11:46:17Z")
Yay! glad we got this fixed. Hopefully we can learn from this next time we scale to 2 second block timer 😉