April 2026 monthly highlights for wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines: Strengthened release automation, security, and packaging reliability. Delivered CI/CD workflow hardening, enhanced version bump tooling, and automated release steps. Fixed SSH port revert and packaging ownership issues to improve stability and distribution integrity. Result: faster, safer releases with clearer changelogs and improved developer experience.

March 2026: Delivered security standardization for Wazuh AMIs and boosted test performance in wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines. Key changes include standardizing SSH access by enforcing port 22 across all Wazuh AMIs, with SSH config updates and validation tests, and upgrading AMI test instance types to larger configurations to accelerate and deepen test coverage. These changes reduce deployment risk, improve consistency, and speed up CI feedback loops, driving faster, more reliable deployments for production environments.

February 2026 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines: Delivered automated Wazuh agent provisioning integration for VM provisioning, enhanced deployment reliability, and expanded test coverage. This work enables consistent agent/manager setup across VMs, reduces manual steps, and improves security posture through timely agent updates.

January 2026 performance summary for wazuh-virtual-machines and wazuh-kubernetes. Delivered cross-architecture CI/CD improvements, deprecation cleanup, and build-system enhancements, along with Kubernetes ingress migration and local-dev parity improvements. Strengthened reliability, reduced maintenance burden, and accelerated development feedback loops across cloud and containerized deployments.

December 2025 performance summary: Delivered substantial modernization of the Wazuh deployment stack across Kubernetes/EKS, significantly improving reliability, security, and deployment speed. Key features delivered include a consolidated Wazuh Kubernetes deployment and EKS infra upgrades, updates to Docker images and deployment topology, enhanced EKS testing orchestration with network policies, and substantial improvements to server integration, app/dashboard tooling, and documentation. Major bugs fixed contributed to stability and security, including memory_lock handling in cert tooling, Nodes variable usage, URL dashboard validation, ingress manifest FQDN handling, and ECR configuration fixes. The work reduced manual steps, improved security posture, and enabled faster, safer rollouts in production. Technologies demonstrated include Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Ansible, Pytest, network policies, AWS Secrets management, and CI/CD workflow optimization.

November 2025 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-docker focused on hardening container security and stabilizing certificate management to ensure secure, reliable deployments. Delivered startup-time certificate generation, relocated removal commands for wazuh-authd certificates, and removed an exposure point (sslmanager key) from the docker manager image. Updated changelogs accordingly and preserved deployment consistency across images.

June 2025 performance summary: Delivered automated release workflows and bumper tooling across six wazuh repositories, enabling consistent version bumps, PR-based review, and automated changelog updates. Refined bumper tooling, improved CI/CD pipelines and Docker tagging, and fixed key release governance issues to shorten release cycles and improve traceability.

May 2025 monthly summary focusing on release engineering, version hygiene, and cross-repo release readiness across three wazuh repositories. Key features delivered include: (1) wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines: Release 5.0.0 deployment and changelog update, with CI/CD workflow changes to reflect the new version. (2) wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines: CI/CD defaults alignment to latest branches and 5.0.0 build version, ensuring builders target wazuh-automation and wazuh-installation-assistant 5.0.0. (3) wazuh/wazuh-puppet: Changelog cleanup and version management for upcoming release notes, preparing for 4.13.0 and standardizing staging to 4.12.1. (4) wazuh/wazuh-ansible: Changelog version references cleanup to reflect current state (4.14.0) and remove outdated 4.12.2 references. Commits spanning these efforts include 1a1fe0062108066c2d3a148fb41b27b48edec27b, 66fcccbb2baaf8aedbbfb5fe89ae89099e620b1f, 5908a37d71cf16e777574a730e6cd22f28cc778e, e7de5cc041ff49fddac43f7a6b3772063225e496, 3e8b139d29c2796c702b86d35004bcc97625ed55, 2fa6f29b92c88293898decf07d0aa6e8b1013cd0, 3ab2e6f2a04d24e275fd23e2ea80b69249aa9281, 4276db58d7d623e201c40147fabf884b55acfa8f, e87df5701b20960911a8a714d1459447dea48c9a, 89eef0b43322d534a548dcb129636dc0ddb9b211.

In April 2025, the team delivered automation and reliability improvements around version management across the wazuh repositories, enabling faster, safer release cycles and better consistency. Key work includes centralized version bump tooling, targeted fixes to the offline Filebeat download flow, and release-readiness enhancements for 4.12.1 with CI updates across multiple repos.

March 2025 monthly summary for wazuh product areas. Key features delivered include release version alignment and CI/CD maintenance across wazuh-virtual-machines and wazuh-installation-assistant, plus diagnostics enhancement for password hashing. These efforts improved build reproducibility, release reliability, and debugging efficiency, with changes documented in CHANGELOG and version metadata updated accordingly.

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on release engineering, packaging modernization, and cross-repo versioning improvements across Wazuh components. The work enabled more predictable releases (4.11.x cycle), improved packaging (OVA/AMI), and strengthened startup reliability for virtualized deployments, delivering measurable business value in faster time-to-market and reduced release risk.

January 2025 (2025-01) — Monthly contributions focused on automation reliability, branding consistency, and base image updates for wazuh-virtual-machines. Delivered systemd-based AMI customization automation, branding improvements in MOTD/login flows, and an Amazon Linux 2023 base image with updated documentation and changelog. These changes reduce manual steps, improve installer reliability through asynchronous execution and robust timeouts, and enhance user onboarding and product branding.

December 2024 monthly summary focusing on delivering release readiness, AL2023 compatibility, and cross-repo versioning. Key milestones include releasing 4.10.3 preparations, updating AMI build pipelines for Amazon Linux 2023, and synchronizing release workflows across wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines and wazuh/wazuh-installation-assistant. These efforts improved deployment reliability, security patch readiness, and business value by enabling consistent, automatable releases.

November 2024 monthly delivery across wazuh/wazuh-puppet, wazuh/wazuh-installation-assistant, and wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines focused on release reliability, installation workflow simplification, and documentation coherence. Achievements center on release automation, updated changelogs/docs, and targeted fixes that improve release velocity, traceability, and setup consistency across environments.

October 2024 was focused on cross-repo release versioning and alignment for patch releases. Implemented precise versioning updates in two Wazuh repositories to ensure accurate release tracking and customer-facing version semantics. No functional defect fixes were required this month; the changes were version/revision updates that improve traceability and release preparedness across the CI/CD pipeline.