Eric published a blog post outlining "good first issues" from the wasmCloud roadmap, making it easier for new contributors to find entry points into the project.
A significant area for contributions is the new wasmCloud wash project, a greenfield evolution called "Wasm Shell." It's written in Rust but supports plugins in both Rust and Go, since plugins are implemented as Wasm components.
The new version of wash is being released under a 1.0 beta tag, intended to eventually replace the old version once it covers key workflows and its plugin model is sufficient.
A shout-out was given to Carlos for quickly taking on good first issues in the wash repository. Brooks encourages others to leave comments on issues if they intend to work on them to avoid duplicate efforts.
Bailey has been working on the setup-wash action for GitHub Actions, which helps users easily set up wash in their CI/CD pipelines. This action is being pushed to the GitHub Actions marketplace.
The wasmCloud project itself received a new minor release (version 1.9). Notable contributions include Jacob's work on getting wash to work with the XTG base directory specification, a dashboard option for wash dev, and Massoud's HTTP client built-in provider. Brooks also acknowledged all first-time contributors in this release.