July 2025: Contribution Workflow Enhancements in ar-io/ar-io-sdk and a documentation fix to improve onboarding for external contributors. Implemented new issue, feature request, and PR templates to standardize contributions and bug reporting; repaired a broken link to the LICENSE file in CONTRIBUTING.md to clarify licensing and contribution guidelines. These changes streamline triage, reduce onboarding time, and improve contribution clarity, enabling faster external contributions and better license visibility.

June 2025 monthly summary for ar-io/ar-io-sdk: Delivered enhanced referral tracking (ArNS) with an optional referer parameter across buyRecord, upgradeRecord, increaseUndernameLimit, and extendLease, and aligned naming to referrer while removing the unused referrer field to simplify analytics integration. Stabilized the SDK's build and dependency surface by updating core dependencies, introducing protocol-tag-utils, and cleaning the lockfile. Added explicit CLI referer support and pinned aoonnect versions to improve build reliability, removing unnecessary resolutions in package.json. These changes reduce integration friction, improve analytics data quality, and enable smoother releases.

Month: 2025-05 — Focused on feature delivery for ArNS purchase APIs in ar-io/ar-io-sdk, introducing referer support across IO, Turbo, and types modules. This enhancement enables reliable analytics and attribution for purchase origins while maintaining API compatibility and minimal surface area changes.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on feature delivery and technical achievements for ar-io/ar-io-node. The main effort this month was updating Linux installation and setup docs to reflect current Docker usage, ensuring alignment with docker compose and the corrected workflow from Build to Start, along with updated package installation commands.