📢 SteemUtil Release Announcement: v0.0.18 & v0.0.19

Repository: steemit/steemutil

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Overview

We're excited to announce two new releases of SteemUtil — v0.0.18 and v0.0.19. These updates bring enhanced beneficiary management features and encoder improvements to make your Steem development workflow smoother and more efficient.

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🆕 v0.0.19 (Latest)

Published: March 12, 2026
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Key Features

• Auto-Sort Beneficiaries: The NewBeneficiariesExtension now automatically sorts beneficiaries alphabetically, ensuring consistent ordering without manual intervention.

Changes

feat: auto-sort beneficiaries alphabetically in NewBeneficiariesExtension (#7)

Contributor: @ety001

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🆕 v0.0.18

Published: March 12, 2026
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Key Features

• Comment Options Beneficiaries Extension: Full support for beneficiaries in comment_options operations has been added, enabling more flexible reward sharing configurations.

• Encoder Improvements: Enhanced type handling for the following data types:

  • Fee
  • Delegation
  • AccountCreationFee
  • Base & Quote (treated as assets)
  • CustomBinary data (treated as bytes)

Changes

- Merge branch 'feat/comment-options-beneficiaries'
- feat: add comment_options beneficiaries extension support (#6)
- encoder: treat Fee, Delegation, AccountCreationFee, Base, Quote as assets; CustomBinary data as bytes

Contributor: @ety001

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🔗 Quick Links

• Repository: https://github.com/steemit/steemutil
• Issues & Feedback: https://github.com/steemit/steemutil/issues

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Stay tuned for more updates and happy building on Steem! 🚀