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Yardstick (Protocol 26) upgrade guide for the Stellar network with key dates, preparation steps for SDK users and infrastructure operators, and links to all relevant releases.

The Stellar Development Foundation is consolidating Go developer tools into a unified Go SDK, renaming the monorepo from stellar/go to stellar/go-stellar-sdk. This change aligns the Go ecosystem with other Stellar SDKs and improves discoverability by clearly separating reusable SDK components from service code.

Stellar has released Protocol 25 (X-Ray) with a comprehensive upgrade guide for developers and infrastructure operators. The guide covers key dates, preparation steps, SDK updates, and breaking changes, with the mainnet upgrade scheduled for January 22, 2026.

Trustless Work has released an SDK MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for Cursor, enabling AI-assisted development of escrow flows. The MCP allows developers to scaffold escrow integrations directly from their editor with autocomplete, type safety, and reduced friction.

Protocol 23 upgrade guide for Stellar developers and businesses, covering key dates, preparation steps, breaking changes, and release information for infrastructure, SDKs, and validators.

The Stellar Development Foundation announced the Wallet SDK at Meridian 2023, a self-service tool that enables fintechs to build Stellar network-enabled wallets with interoperability features without requiring deep blockchain expertise. The SDK supports deposit/withdrawal services, KYC, and web authentication across Flutter, Kotlin, and Typescript.

Christian Rogobete, a key Stellar SDK contributor known as Soneso, has developed and maintains iOS, Flutter, and PHP SDKs while working on an AssemblyScript Soroban SDK. His work aims to make blockchain development more accessible to developers across multiple programming languages.

Stellar Development Foundation released the second preview of Soroban, its smart contracts platform, featuring built-in contracts, expanded metering, a new Auth SDK, and significant SDK/CLI improvements including new commands for local development and contract inspection.

Stellar Protocol 13 upgrade is coming to mainnet on 06/18/2020. Developers must update Horizon, SDKs, and custom integrations before the network votes to upgrade, or their software will break.

The Stellar Development Foundation announces the release of a new Go SDK for the Stellar network, featuring horizonclient for Horizon server access and txnbuild for transaction construction. This is the third official SDK alongside JavaScript and Java, designed with Go-specific idioms and improved developer experience.

The 7th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with 107 submissions and 3.52M lumens in total awards. StellarGuard and dotnet-stellar-sdk contributions won top honors, with 53 projects receiving recognition across multiple categories including wallets, SDKs, tutorials, and trading applications.

The 6th Stellar Build Challenge concluded with record submissions and a 5x prize pool increase to 2.7M XLM. Winners include Soneso's iOS SDK, Stellarport.io exchange, and Python SDK documentation improvements, with 113 total projects receiving awards.