Month: 2025-01 — Stellar Quickstart (stellar/quickstart) Key accomplishments for the period focus on delivering a build environment upgrade to support Horizon service development. The team completed a targeted feature upgrade and ensured alignment with external PRs to improve build reproducibility and CI reliability. Overall impact is improved build stability for Horizon-related changes and smoother PR verification, enabling faster delivery of features and bug fixes in subsequent sprints.

December 2024 monthly summary for stellar/quickstart: Key feature delivered was updating the Horizon version in the CI/CD pipeline to 22.0.2 to ensure builds use the latest stable release of the Horizon service. This involved updating horizon_ref and friendbot_ref in CI/CD/build configurations to Horizon 22.0.2 and is backed by the commit that marks the release (43a09bb79ff1b4f1f8a1856ee11b65c5f00cce56, "Update Horizon version to 22.0.2 release (#650)"). The change improves build stability, compatibility, and release reliability by removing drift between the CI environment and the Horizon service.

Month 2024-11: Delivered CI/CD Build Configuration Upgrade for Horizon 22.0.1 in stellar/quickstart, updating workflow files and the Makefile to pin to the latest stable Horizon release. This aligned horizon_ref and friendbot_ref with Horizon 22.0.1, reducing build drift and improving test reliability. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on stability, dependency alignment, and accelerating release readiness. Technologies demonstrated include CI/CD automation, Git/version control, and release management with Horizon releases.