diff --git a/src/_data/authors.yml b/src/_data/authors.yml
index 6d34750a0b0..1950caeb9fb 100644
--- a/src/_data/authors.yml
+++ b/src/_data/authors.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ aljoscha:
 altay:
     name: Ahmet Altay
     email: altay@apache.org
+ccy:
+    name: Charles Chen
+    email: ccy@apache.org
 davor:
     name: Davor Bonaci
     email: davor@apache.org
diff --git a/src/_posts/2018-10-03-beam-2.7.0.md b/src/_posts/2018-10-03-beam-2.7.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..289763dd070
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/_posts/2018-10-03-beam-2.7.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Apache Beam 2.7.0"
+date:   2018-10-03 00:00:01 -0800
+excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
+categories: blog
+authors:
+        - ccy
+
+---
+<!--
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+We are happy to present the new 2.7.0 release of Beam. This release includes both improvements and new functionality.
+See the [download page](https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/#270-2018-10-02) for this release.<!--more-->
+For more information on changes in 2.7.0, check out the
+[detailed release notes](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12343654).
+
+## New Features / Improvements
+
+### New I/Os
+
+* KuduIO
+* Amazon SNS sink
+* Amazon SqsIO
+
+### Dependency Upgrades
+
+* Apache Calcite dependency upgraded to 1.17.0
+* Apache Derby dependency upgraded to 10.14.2.0
+* Apache HTTP components upgraded (see release notes).
+
+### Portability
+
+* Experimental support for Python on local Flink runner for simple
+examples, see latest information here:
+https://beam.apache.org/contribute/portability/#status.
+
+## Miscellaneous Fixes
+
+### I/Os
+
+* KinesisIO, fixed dependency issue 
+
+## List of Contributors
+
+According to git shortlog, the following 72 people contributed
+to the 2.7.0 release. Thank you to all contributors!
+
+Ahmet Altay, Alan Myrvold, Alexey Romanenko, Aljoscha Krettek,
+Andrew Pilloud, Ankit Jhalaria, Ankur Goenka, Anton Kedin, Boyuan
+Zhang, Carl McGraw, Carlos Alonso, cclauss, Chamikara Jayalath,
+Charles Chen, Cory Brzycki, Daniel Oliveira, Dariusz Aniszewski,
+devinduan, Eric Beach, Etienne Chauchot, Eugene Kirpichov, Garrett
+Jones, Gene Peters, Gleb Kanterov, Henning Rohde, Henry Suryawirawan,
+Holden Karau, Huygaa Batsaikhan, Ismaël Mejía, Jason Kuster, Jean-
+Baptiste Onofré, Joachim van der Herten, Jozef Vilcek, jxlewis, Kai
+Jiang, Katarzyna Kucharczyk, Kenn Knowles, Krzysztof Trubalski, Kyle
+Winkelman, Leen Toelen, Luis Enrique Ortíz Ramirez, Lukasz Cwik,
+Łukasz Gajowy, Luke Cwik, Mark Liu, Matthias Feys, Maximilian Michels,
+Melissa Pashniak, Mikhail Gryzykhin, Mikhail Sokolov, mingmxu, Norbert
+Chen, Pablo Estrada, Prateek Chanda, Raghu Angadi, Ravi Pathak, Reuven
+Lax, Robert Bradshaw, Robert Burke, Rui Wang, Ryan Williams, Sindy Li,
+Thomas Weise, Tim Robertson, Tormod Haavi, Udi Meiri, Vaclav Plajt,
+Valentyn Tymofieiev, xiliu, XuMingmin, Yifan Zou, Yueyang Qiu.
diff --git a/src/get-started/downloads.md b/src/get-started/downloads.md
index e421ea0b293..24c5aff5fb2 100644
--- a/src/get-started/downloads.md
+++ b/src/get-started/downloads.md
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ Official [source code download](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam/
 [SHA-512](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam/2.7.0/apache-beam-2.7.0-source-release.zip.sha512)
 [signature](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam/2.7.0/apache-beam-2.7.0-source-release.zip.asc).
 
+[Release notes](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12319527&version=12343654).
+
 ### 2.6.0 (2018-08-08)
 Official [source code download](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.6.0/apache-beam-2.6.0-source-release.zip)
 [SHA-512](https://archive.apache.org/dist/beam/2.6.0/apache-beam-2.6.0-source-release.zip.sha512)