February 2026 monthly summary for stellar-protocol focusing on delivered features, fixed bugs, and business impact. Highlights include a bug fix to muxed destination semantics in transfer/trust logic (CAP-73) and a scalability/throughput enhancement by increasing per-transaction footprint limit to 400 entries (SLP-5). Documentation updates were applied to core CAP-0073 and SL P-0005 limits to reflect changes, ensuring consistency across governance, code, and developer tooling. Overall impact includes improved correctness for muxed accounts, higher transaction throughput, better reliability, and an enhanced developer experience through clear governance and documentation.

January 2026 monthly summary focusing on both business value and technical achievements across Stellar Core and Stellar Protocol. The month delivered throughput optimizations, protocol upgrades, and reliability improvements that enable higher load with predictable latency, better testnet fidelity, and a smoother developer experience. Delivered measurable features and maintenance work across two repos, with a clear path to scale as demand grows.

December 2025 monthly summary focusing on stability, performance validation, and security hardening across core ledger and protocol layers.

November 2025 monthly summary for stellar-core: Delivered key features improving apply-load usability and benchmarking, completed Protocol Version 25 compliance for memo validation and fee handling, and enhanced testnet performance via parallelization and increased instruction limits. These changes improve benchmarking fidelity, protocol conformance, and scalability for simulating large networks; support faster iteration, reduced risk of misconfigurations, and clearer test outcomes.

October 2025 monthly delivery focused on security, reliability, and upgrade readiness across stellar/stellar-protocol and stellar/stellar-core. Delivered security enhancements for Soroban address credentials, improved observability for mempool and archival processes, and advanced cross-version readiness for protocol upgrades. Resulted in measurable business value through stronger authorization integrity, reduced archival and mempool risks, and streamlined upgrade path.

September 2025: Delivered stability improvements and feature groundwork across stellar-core and stellar-protocol, focusing on test reliability, production safety, and forward-looking account authentication capabilities. Key outcomes include stabilizing the 'apply generated parallel tx sets' test, gating test-only code from production builds, laying groundwork for delegated signers and signer management, enabling SAC/G-account trustlines with automatic G-account creation on transfers, and updating CAP statuses with a protocol bump to version 23. These efforts reduce production risk, speed feature readiness, and expand secure account management capabilities.

August 2025 monthly summary: Strengthened Build, Stability, and Ledger Reliability across the Stellar repository footprint. Delivered cross-repo features and fixes with clear business value: faster, more reliable deployments; more robust runtime behavior; and improved data correctness for end users and operators.

July 2025 monthly work summary highlighting delivery across Stellar Core (stellar-core) and Quickstart, focusing on reliability, testing, and protocol readiness. Emphasizes business value from stability, maintainability, and faster validation cycles.

June 2025 Monthly Summary: Delivered CAP-66-aligned rent and fee policy enhancements across stellar-core, advanced Soroban readiness, and strengthened testing stability. Key outcomes include updated rent calculations to reflect ContractCodeEntry size and Soroban costs, as well as extending fee calculations to cover Soroban costs under CAP-66. Tuned resource fees to ensure adequate rent calibration capacity and future Soroban operations. Implemented in-memory Soroban state size tracking (starting with protocol v23) to enable accurate contract code sizing during upgrades. Fixed critical history replay issues and improved history acceptance tests to handle failed transactions and fee bump scenarios. Improved Soroban test stability through adjusted test parameters and refined data keys/result checks. Fixed rent double-charging by ensuring auto-restored entry IDs are correctly used in host function calls, and updated build/transaction logic accordingly. In stellar-protocol, introduced Wasm contract code rent and in-memory fee optimization with a discount-based rent model and clarified Wasm caching/fee structure; added documentation to explain fee bump support for large fees and inner transaction fee behavior. Overall, these efforts enhance cost predictability, upgrade safety, and performance for Soroban-enabled workloads, delivering tangible business value through reduced rent surprises, reliable deployments, and faster iteration cycles.

May 2025 monthly summary for Stellar projects. Focused on delivering core protocol upgrades, improving observability, and hardening configuration stability, while maintaining code quality and build reliability across stellar-protocol and stellar-core. Notable outcomes include protocol upgrade readiness, improved event semantics, and robust invariants along with build tooling improvements.

April 2025 delivered notable core improvements for stellar-core, focused on resource tracking, telemetry accuracy, and test coverage to support reliable operation of the Stellar network's transaction processing. Highlights include RefundableFeeTracker and TransactionMetaBuilder to improve resource accounting and meta construction, addressing fee bump replay shortcuts. Parallel Transaction Set Builder with dynamic stage count to optimize parallelism and throughput in Soroban tx processing. Corrected Transaction Count metric to reflect actual operation counts, improving observability. Fee bump transaction tests alignment and coverage to reflect actual processing flow and cover fee charging and inner transactions. Project configuration enhancements and new source files for invariant checks and event reconciliation, enabling stronger build integrity.

In March 2025, delivered cross-repo muxed accounts support across Stellar Core, SAC, and Soroban, with a dedicated muxed account XDR struct, refactored SCAddress for MuxedEd25519Account, and new host functions enabling muxed addresses in SAC transfer flows and Soroban interactions. Aligned protocol with CAP-67 by bumping to the p23 environment and updating XDR accordingly; Core/SAC tests now cover new address types and muxed transfers. Expanded end-to-end testing to ensure unsupported address types (in protocol v22) are rejected and that muxed transfers function reliably, while validating constraints around Claimable Balance and Liquidity Pool addresses. These changes improve safety, clarity, and capability, enabling customers to manage multiplexed accounts with greater flexibility and performance.

Monthly summary for February 2025 focusing on measurable feature work in the stellar-protocol repository and its business impact. Delivered clear semantic improvements, API simplifications, and cost modeling updates that improve correctness, developer experience, and alignment of resource usage with actual costs.

January 2025 monthly summary focusing on engineering outcomes across Stellar Core and Protocol initiatives. Delivered test reliability improvements, protocol-level parallelism enhancements, and security/credential work for Soroban. This month emphasized stability, throughput, and preparedness for protocol 23 changes, with concrete commits tied to test optimization, validation fixes, and host function updates.

December 2024 monthly highlights across stellar/stellar-protocol and stellar-core: Delivered clarified SLP-1 limit increase evaluation, improved Soroban load generation testing with protocol upgrade alignment, and stabilized the Rust build workflow for Visual Studio. These efforts enhanced governance clarity, testing realism for protocol upgrades, and developer experience by reducing build failures.

November 2024: Focused on reliability, performance visibility, and future readiness for stellar-core. Key outcomes include (1) cost recalibration and robustness for Protocol 20 cost modeling, regenerating the LCM and improving host function reliability, with documentation added to clarify recalibration scope for Protocol 20 and upcoming tests/benchmarks; (2) benchmark enhancements to the apply-load suite, improving resource estimation and synthetic data generation, plus new configuration options for bucket lists and Soroban resource limits, and updated transaction resource calculations/reporting; (3) overall impact: increased cost calculation accuracy, stronger robustness, and clearer performance measurement enabling better capacity planning and faster iteration toward Protocol 20 readiness.

2024-10 monthly summary for stellar-core focused on stabilizing test reliability for value externalization. No new features released; main work centered on robustness of test infrastructure and upgrade flows through increased timeout and broader protocol-version coverage.

July 2024 monthly summary for Stellar Core focused on delivering a scalable feature set and validating performance improvements through careful protocol and environment updates.

June 2024 – Stellar Core (stellar/stellar-core): Focused on enabling parallel Soroban transaction processing, refining validation for parallel phases, and introducing an algorithm to nominate valid parallel transaction sets for cluster-dependent execution. This work establishes the foundation for scalable Soroban throughput and lays groundwork for future concurrency improvements across the core.