February 2026 monthly summary for formancehq/payments focusing on delivering a robust local development experience for connectors, strengthening security and code quality, and improving developer productivity. Key features delivered center on the Connector Workbench and Local Development Enhancements, enabling a more seamless local end-to-end workflow for connectors and testing. The work included a Slack-style sidebar for connector selection, URL-based routing using react-router-dom, JSON syntax highlighting, and an improved State tab with list/detail views. A generic connector server was added to support integration testing against a local workbench, with cached data and optional API key authentication. PEM/certificate configuration handling was improved by using textareas to preserve multi-line content. Major bugs fixed include a data race in idCounter, a path traversal vulnerability in introspect.go, a pointer comparison issue in baseline.go, and a set of lint/errcheck fixes. These changes reduce risk in local testing, improve stability, and address issues raised during PR reviews. Additional hardening included embedding UI assets reliably and laying groundwork for future registry-driven development. Overall impact and accomplishments: This work accelerates local development, end-to-end connector testing, and production readiness by enabling end-to-end scenarios locally, mitigating security gaps, and delivering a polished, maintainable UI. The effort demonstrates strong collaboration, PR hygiene, and cross-cutting improvements that reduce upstream friction for connectors and payments features. Technologies/skills demonstrated: React and react-router-dom UX improvements, react-syntax-highlighter for code presentation, Golang backend workbench and generic server patterns, handling of PEM/cert config with proper UI controls, atomic operations for concurrency safety, go:embed for UI assets, internal registry usage for future refactors, and comprehensive lint/errcheck discipline.

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June 2025 monthly summary for formancehq/payments focused on API compatibility improvements to reduce downstream integration risk and set groundwork for future registry API evolutions. Key action: Connector Template API Compatibility Update to align with the latest registry API by updating the registry.RegisterPlugin signature and Plugin struct initialization for compatibility with current API requirements.