Parity Ethereum v2.6.3-stable is a patch release that improves security, stability and performance.
* The most noteworthy improvement in this release is incorporating all the EIPs required for the Istanbul hard fork.
* This release also fixes certain security and performance issues, one of which was suspected to be consensus-threatening but turned out to be benign. Thanks to Martin Holst Swende and Felix Lange from the Ethereum Foundation for bringing the suspicious issue to our attention.
Parity Ethereum v2.6.2-stable is a bugfix release that fixes a potential DoS attack in the trace_call RPC method. This is a critical upgrade for anyone running Parity nodes with RPC exposed to the public internet (and highly recommended for anyone else). For details see this blog post.