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 # Refinery Changelog
 
+## 2.7.1 2024-08-15
+
+### Fixes
+
+- fix: don't read more than max bytes from a request (#1276) | [Kent Quirk](https://github.com/kentquirk)
+
 ## 2.7.0 2024-07-29
 
 This release incorporates a new publish/subscribe (pubsub) system for faster and cleaner communication between Refinery nodes.
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 While [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md) contains detailed documentation and links to all the source code changes in a given release, this document is intended to be aimed at a more comprehensible version of the contents of the release from the point of view of users of Refinery.
 
+## Version 2.7.1
+
+This is a bug fix release.
+Sending compressed event or batch payloads that are larger than 5MB will now result in a HTTP 400 "failed to parse event" error response to clients.
+
 ## Version 2.7.0
 
 This release is a minor release focused on better cluster stability and data quality with a new system for communicating peer information across nodes.