When closing this issue, please respond with at least the GitHub release that supports Protocol 20.
The next version of the Stellar network will feature a new smart contract platform called Soroban. Note that this version features only additive changes: existing operations, etc. have not changed. (Protocol 20 will be the same thing as "Preview 11," the latest release of Soroban to Stellar Futurenet.)
- Your SDK should support encoding and decoding the new XDR schemas. The network protocol will use the XDR schema defined here:
stellar-xdr
@ 9ac0264. - There are three new operations. The former is for invoking contract actions, while the latter two are related to state expiration (see [Interacting with Soroban via Stellar](https://soroban.stellar.org/docs/fundamentals-and-concepts/invoking-contracts