# Eliza Project Updates (2025-02-27)

## Recent Updates to Eliza Project

### Features
- Added a rolodex feature (#3725)
- Consolidated character and agent handling (#3708)
- Added support for ANTHROPIC_API_URL environment variable (#3711)
- Improved plugin loading error handling and added JSON5 support for character files (#3698)
- Enhanced CLI installation process (#3697)
- Updated environment for plugin viction (#3701)

### Bug Fixes
- Fixed character creator (#3710)
- Fixed character update functionality (#3717)
- Resolved an out-of-memory bug in version 0.25.8 (#3722)
- Disabled agents in agent table before startup (#3726)
- Fixed CLI path escaping for paths with spaces (#3699)
- Addressed lint and turbo issues (#3703)
- Improved `pnpm clean` output and optimized `pnpm dev` performance on faster CPUs (#3714)
- Fixed re-initialization migration issue (#3674)

### Other Improvements
- Enhanced GUI (#3727)
- Performed code formatting pass (#3715)
- Updated security-related NPM packages and bumped turbo (#3700)
- Refactored plugin local AI (#3704)
- Improved test consistency by favoring local paths and adjusted dependencies (#3716)

## Recent Pull Requests

- PR #3708: Consolidated character and agent handling
- PR #3700: Updated security-related NPM packages and bumped turbo
- PR #3698: Improved plugin loading error handling and added JSON5 support
- PR #3704: Refactored local AI plugin
- PR #3728: JSDoc improvements
- PR #3725: Added rolodex feature
- PR #3729: Updated documentation and added blog, showcase, changelog, and RSS features

## GitHub Activity Summary

- 27 new pull requests submitted
- 19 pull requests successfully merged
- 2 new issues opened
- 16 active contributors working on the project

## GitHub Issues

- Issue #3702: REST API backend
- Issue #3723: Add plugin-evm (Ethereum Virtual Machine)