August 2025 monthly summary: Delivered a new skip_users option for Client Certificate Authentication, enabling admins to bypass client cert authentication for a defined set of users and fall back to alternative methods. This improves flexibility in mixed authentication environments and reduces disruption during credential rotations. Work spanned two repos: code changes in opensearch-project/security and documentation updates in opensearch-project/documentation-website. The feature includes changelog updates, a configuration file example, and integration tests. No major bugs reported this month.

July 2025 monthly summary for wazuh-indexer (repository: wazuh/wazuh-indexer). Focus: key feature delivery around S3 repository testing configurability and associated test stability improvements, with cross-storage coverage across S3-compatible solutions. Highlights include adding environment variables and system properties to configure path-style access and custom endpoints for the S3 repository plugin tests; and fixing a test configuration bug to enable overriding path_style_access and endpoint in S3RepositoryThirdPartyTests.java, enabling reliable testing against multiple S3 storages. This work improves CI reliability, reduces test fragility, and broadens support for S3-compatible storage, delivering business value by ensuring robust, portable storage integration testing.