October 2025 (2025-10) — In wandelbotsgmbh/catalog, delivered a focused upgrade campaign across the Rerun stack and related components to improve stability, compatibility, and performance. Completed multi-series upgrades of Rerun Core and Nova Rerun Bridge (including 2.20.x to 2.20.4, 3.0.x to 3.0.2, 3.1.0 to 3.3.4), and upgraded the Rerun libraries from 3.4.x to 3.5.3 along with Nova-rerun-Bridge from 3.4.x to 3.5.x. Updated Zivid-intel to 2.3.0 to support newer hardware. These changes were implemented through a batch of commits across the catalog repository, aligning with latest runtimes and preparing for future features. No explicit bug tickets were closed this month; however, dependency upgrades address known issues and regressions, improving stability and CI reliability. The work demonstrates strong cross-repo coordination, disciplined dependency management, and clear risk mitigations that enable faster, more reliable feature delivery.

September 2025 (wandelbotsgmbh/catalog) focused on a comprehensive batch upgrade of the Rerun ecosystem and related dependencies to improve stability, compatibility, and readiness for upcoming features. Key work encompassed core library upgrades, bridge updates, and peripheral dependency upgrades across multiple patch streams, all coordinated within a single repository to minimize risk and streamline future maintenance. Delivery was validated via CI checks and ensured backward compatibility with existing integrations.

Monthly summary for 2025-08 (wandelbotsgmbh/catalog). Focused on delivering business value through extensive upgrades of the Rerun ecosystem and related components, while maintaining stability and forward compatibility. Work concentrated on dependency modernization, cross-component coordination, and ensuring a smooth path for future feature work.

July 2025 — Wandelbots catalog repo | Key focus: upgrade the Rerun analytics stack (core and Nova-Rerun-Bridge) through a multi-version upgrade path, ensuring compatibility with the latest ecosystem features and long-term maintainability. Executed a staged, highly traceable upgrade strategy across many versions, aligning the core (Rerun) and the bridge (Nova-Rerun-Bridge) from 1.25.x up to 2.8.x, with concurrent dependency updates for each step.

June 2025: Executed a focused upgrade program across the catalog service to improve hardware compatibility, deployment reliability, and maintainability. Upgraded key components with manifest and container image updates, ensuring reproducible builds and smoother future upgrades. Deliverables included driver and application stack upgrades across multiple releases with traceable commits.

May 2025 (2025-05) — Focused on stabilizing and modernizing the Wandelbots catalog stack through comprehensive dependency upgrades, feature enables, and alignment across the rerun ecosystem. Primary work included extensive version bumps for rerun core and bridge components, updates to Zivid Intel, cloud enablement, and integration enhancements. This release aligns with the platform’s cloud strategy, improves observability via a diagnosis endpoint, and reduces risk by updating critical dependencies to current, supported versions across multiple subsystems.

April 2025 monthly summary for wandelbotsgmbh/catalog: Delivered critical compatibility and reliability improvements through driver and orchestration upgrades. Upgraded Zivid Intel driver across versions 1.3.0 to 1.5.0 to ensure sensor compatibility and stability. Upgraded the rerun stack and nova-rerun-bridge from 0.50.x to 0.53.1 to improve reliability, throughput, and end-to-end data processing. These changes reduce production risk, streamline sensor integration, and set the stage for rapid feature delivery.

March 2025 — Wandelbots Catalog: Configuration cleanup to simplify deployment and reduce misconfigurations; removed unused COMPUTEBOX_IP environment variable from manifest.yaml in the catalog repository. This aligns environment configuration with best practices, reduces surface area for errors, and accelerates onboarding across environments.

February 2025 achievement snapshot: Delivered reliability and automation enhancements across wandelbots-nova and catalog repos. Implemented API Client - Robust Host Prefix Handling to normalize API URLs, and extended image push workflows to dispatch catalog update events, ensuring the product catalog stays in sync with new images. Upgraded core libraries and dependencies (Zivid, rerun, nova-rerun-bridge) and introduced a GitHub Actions workflow to automate catalog entry updates. Fixed CI badge reference and performed repository cleanups (typos, removed obsolete App Store assets), reducing operational risk and manual maintenance. These changes deliver tangible business value through more stable integrations, faster catalog synchronization, and smoother CI/CD operations.

January 2025 (2025-01) delivered two catalog enhancements in wandelbotsgmbh/catalog to improve release quality and streamline publishing workflows: Key features delivered: - Icon Validation and Catalog Icon Sizing: Implemented a CI workflow to validate presence and dimensions of catalog icons and updated the README to reflect icon.png for each app entry, ensuring consistent visual presentation in the application manager. Commit: 182d599cfc26b22d0fcbcd81182f5521590125ab (add icons (#11)). - YQ-based Catalog Update Workflow: Documented and documented instructions to use yq for updating containerImage.image and version fields in catalog manifest entries to streamline publishing new versions. Commit: 83bb86c0ba579b0d37602120a38ebc393dda8b9d (use yq (#10)). Major bugs fixed: - None reported or recorded for this month. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved visual consistency across catalog entries, contributing to a more polished user experience in the application manager. - Streamlined release publishing with a clear, repeatable workflow for updating manifest fields using yq, reducing manual steps and potential errors. - Strengthened CI validation around catalog assets, enabling faster detection of missing or mis-sized icons during development. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - CI/CD workflow design and implementation, asset validation, and README/documentation updates. - YAML-based manifest manipulation with yq, and manifest field upkeep in a multi-repo catalog. - Clear technical communication and documentation to enable easier adoption by the team. Business value: - Faster, safer version publishing and more reliable product visuals in the catalog, supporting smoother deployments and better end-user experience.

December 2024 monthly summary for wandelbotsgmbh/catalog: Delivered GPU-accelerated Zivid Intel by requesting GPU resources in the manifest and upgrading the Zivid container image, enabling faster perception pipelines. Completed catalog cleanup by removing unused secret references and deprecating planners (magma-planner, palletizing-planner, snake-planner) via manifest deletions, reducing maintenance burden. No major bugs reported this month; stability preserved during feature delivery. Overall impact includes improved workload throughput potential, streamlined deployment architecture, and lower risk from secret misconfigurations. Technologies demonstrated include manifest-based resource provisioning, container image upgrades, secret-management hygiene, and planner deprecation with clear commit traceability.

November 2024 monthly summary for wandelbotsgmbh/catalog: Focused on establishing a compliant catalog foundation, enabling onboarding, automating manifest generation, and enabling persistent Jupyter storage. This set of work lays groundwork for scalable catalog participation and reproducible deployments.