December 2025 monthly summary for nearcore: delivered experimental JsonRPC enhancements with structured error handling to improve API robustness and developer experience, while preserving backward compatibility. Focused on enabling reliable account queries and contract function invocations via new EXPERIMENTAL methods, setting the stage for stronger tooling and client integrations.

November 2025 focused on strengthening Nearcore's OpenAPI-driven RPC documentation and compatibility. Delivered backward-compatible API schema changes, clearer error modelling, and a centralized docs endpoint to reduce client integration risk and upgrade friction.

September 2025 (near/nearcore) focused on strengthening type safety and cross-component consistency by standardizing core data types and performing targeted compile-time cleanups. Delivered two key features and fixed a critical type bug, delivering tangible business value through safer, more maintainable code and fewer runtime type errors.

July 2025 — Key feature delivery focused on OpenAPI documentation accuracy and schema generation for nearcore. Updated dependencies and refactored the OpenAPI generator to reflect the current NEAR Protocol JSON RPC API, with improved handling of allOf and oneOf schemas to enhance clarity and correctness of the generated OpenAPI specification. This work reduces integration risk for developers and aligns tooling with the latest protocol spec, improving developer experience and long-term maintenance.

June 2025 monthly summary for near/nearcore focusing on API surface visibility and governance enhancements. Key features delivered: 1) OpenAPI Query RPC support and documentation: updated the OpenAPI spec to include the query method, added Rust code to generate the spec for the query RPC, and enhanced the build script to surface an informative error if the spec changes, ensuring documentation stays in sync with available RPC methods. 2) Code ownership governance update for OpenAPI JSON: updated CODEOWNERS to add an additional owner for the chain/jsonrpc/openapi/openapi.json path to improve code review processes and ownership accountability.

May 2025: Implemented automated OpenAPI specification generation for the NEAR Protocol JSON RPC API in nearcore, leveraging schemars and okapi to derive JSON schemas and adding a CI test to auto-regenerate the spec. This reduces API drift, improves external developer onboarding, and provides a reliable source of truth for API documentation. Primary commit: 800da6e7ea502cbacac82dd02a30de77341587ff (Generate OpenAPI spec (#12961)). No major bugs fixed this month; related CI/workflow improvements completed.

December 2024 monthly summary for near/near-api-js: Implemented a configurable JSON-RPC retry mechanism to improve reliability of RPC calls. Refactored retry configuration into a dedicated function, added customizable retryAttempts, backoff multipliers, and initial delays; updated fetchJsonRpc to accept the new config and ensured JsonRpcProvider utilizes it. Included a refinement to remove unnecessary backoff (#1441). This work reduces transient RPC failures, improves wallet/provider reliability, and enables production tuning.