Release notes and unreleased changes can be found in the CHANGELOG

From crates.io:

$ cargo install cargo-near

To install from source:

$ git clone https://github.com/near/cargo-near
$ cargo install --path cargo-near

See cargo near --help for a complete list of available commands. Help is also available for each individual command with a --help flag, e.g. cargo near build --help.

cargo near build

Builds a NEAR smart contract along with its ABI (while in the directory containing contract's Cargo.toml).

You can also make this command embed ABI into your WASM artifact by adding --embed-abi parameter. Once deployed, this will allow you to call a view function __contract_abi to retrieve a ZST-compressed ABI.

cargo near abi

Generates NEAR smart contract's ABI (while in the directory containing contract's Cargo.toml).

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as below, without any additional terms or conditions.

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.