A critical upgrade alert has been issued for the XRP Ledger validator. In a tweet, XRPL validator Jon Nilsen sent a message to XRP Ledger validators that they must upgrade to the latest Ripple version 2.6.2 or risk receiving a fix block within the next 13 days and 20 hours.
“If you are running an XRPL node, please update to the latest v2.6.2 of #rippled or you risk receiving a fix block in 13 days and 20 hours,” Nilsen wrote.
If you are running an #XRPL node, please update to the latest v2.6.2 of #rippled. Otherwise, you risk receiving a fix block within 13 days and 20 hours. pic.twitter.com/tfiweHsF22
— Jon Nilsen (@jonaagenilsen) December 4, 2025
A November 19th XRPL blog post announced the availability of version 2.6.2 of rippled, the reference server implementation for the XRP Ledger protocol. This release includes a new fixDirectoryLimit fix and critical bug fixes.
The XRPL fix ‘fixDirectoryLimit’, which removes directory page limits, has been activated for voting in this release. Fixed a bug that caused an assertion to fail if all inner transactions of a Batch transaction were invalid.
Ripple CTO David Schwartz revealed in a recent tweet that his hub had been running Ripple version 2.6.2 without issue for over a week, and indicated that he himself had subscribed to the upgrade.
XRPL Smart Escrow
In a tweet, XRPL validator Vet shared his optimism about smart escrow coming to the XRP Ledger. Smart Escrow uses native escrow functionality to introduce custom conditions for escrowing funds directly on-chain. Users can use oracles to release escrow funds based on XRP price, alongside other use cases.
As a new vision of permissionless programmability emerges, the first major component of this effort is the concept of smart features that allow developers limited customizability built on top of individual XRPL primitives, according to RippleX software engineer Mayukha Vadari.
Escrow is the first primitive to receive this upgrade. Enter smart escrow. XRPL escrow is essentially an on-chain contract that governs the all-or-nothing movement of funds from one account to another based on pre-agreed terms. Currently they can only hold XRP, but the TokenEscrow amendment (currently being voted on) will allow them to hold both IOUs (issued assets) and MPTs (multipurpose tokens).
