January 2026 monthly summary for hashgraph/pbj: Delivered a major improvement to the Helidon gRPC plugin by adopting helidon-common-features-codegen to manage @Features metadata, significantly enhancing configuration, feature discovery, and modularity for end users. The change reduces setup complexity and improves consistency across feature flags, aligning with the project’s goal of a more scalable plugin architecture.

December 2025 — Hashgraph/pbj: Module Annotation Standardization. Standardized module annotations by replacing @Features with @Feature to improve clarity and consistency in module definitions. This refactor reduces annotation drift, simplifies tooling and validation, and enhances maintainability. Included a targeted fix to correct annotation usage (commit e0b3f4e5cf6fbd2dbf833f7b2c88cd558b4f972c) with signed-off author.