September 2025 monthly summary focusing on stability, release governance, and deployable configurations for Wazuh Kubernetes deployments.

2025-08 Monthly Summary: Delivered automation and documentation improvements across two wazuh repositories to strengthen release hygiene and maintainability. Key features delivered: GitHub Actions workflow version synchronization in wazuh/wazuh-virtual-machines, updating default references from 4.13.1 to 4.13.0 and removing the outdated 4.13.1 entry from CHANGELOG.md. Major bugs fixed: wazuh/wazuh-installation-assistant documentation fix for add_last_stage, reverting a previous description change and correcting example values to include 'alpha0' instead of 'rc3'. Overall impact: reduces release risk, ensures consistent version references, and improves docs accuracy, accelerating onboarding and release readiness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: GitHub Actions, YAML, changelog maintenance, documentation versioning, revert workflows, and cross-repo collaboration.

July 2025 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-kubernetes: Focused on stabilizing deployments by enforcing official releases (4.13.0) across all Wazuh Kubernetes components (dashboard, indexer, manager). Reverted pre-release image tags to stable 4.13.0 to prevent beta/RC versions from being deployed, applied across multiple deployment manifests, and coordinated changes across the repo to improve reliability of production rollouts.

June 2025 performance summary: Key reliability improvements and release-management actions across wazuh-docker, wazuh-kubernetes, and wazuh-installation-assistant. Implemented startup validation for the certificate tool and coordinated alpha-stage tagging and lifecycle to accelerate alpha testing and release readiness. These changes improved startup reliability, reduced release risk, and set up a clear path toward a stable 4.13.0 release.

May 2025 monthly summary focusing on documentation hygiene and changelog maintenance across two repos, with no changes to product functionality. Key improvements center on cleaning up stale 4.12.2 entries to align release notes with current/future versions, reducing noise for users and teams.

Monthly summary for 2025-04: Key features delivered: - Offline_filebeat_version variable added to wazuh/wazuh-installation-assistant to centralize Filebeat version management for offline RPM and DEB downloads (reducing mismatch risk and simplifying maintenance). (Commits: 16b0d94a24627b89bd85641cccfe1a3c1c82244a; 8fc57ea8102e70e44627ce12fdb5b100283950c6) - RC1 release stage groundwork in installation flow: updated variables to set last_stage to rc1 for RC readiness, then reverted to reset stage for future releases. (Commits: 65f405de22691241c5162eaa3ecbae2dcdb3d91c; a28ff2f5e391c3df91a34cd3355530e5a4bb9e9e) - Wazuh-puppet: Release process update to mark Release as RC1 to reflect RC lifecycle (no code changes). (Commit: d1af26c307921e2646de3ff0f573aec75132dbc1) - Wazuh-kubernetes: Release tag management to coordinate RC prep and stable rollback across wazuh-dashboard, wazuh-indexer, and wazuh-manager (image tag strategy). (Commits: 62d9423555bf192e0dfa1bbba593ab49c4881442; eb00189ff4e1e439fc8df3ed8137b17557e73acb) Major bugs fixed: - Offline workflow bug: fixed missing closing quote in WAZUH_VERSION in offline-installation.yml; updated CHANGELOG.md with a Deleted section (None) to document the change. (Commit: bf56e8ace20445eb97dc9f9b1b9df2fb88582458) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved reliability and reproducibility of offline installations through centralized version management and corrected configuration. - Strengthened RC lifecycle and release governance with cross-repo coordination, reducing deployment risks and enabling faster, safer rollouts. - Achieved tighter cross-component alignment for release tagging and RC readiness across installation, Puppet-based release processes, and Kubernetes deployment pipelines. Technologies and skills demonstrated: - Version control discipline, YAML/configuration management, and release governance (RC lifecycle). - Cross-repo coordination for offline packaging, RC prep, and image tagging strategies. - Changelog maintenance and packaging hygiene for both RPM and DEB distributions.

March 2025 performance-focused release-readiness month across Wazuh components. Implemented release-tracking housekeeping, aligned RC cycles, and tightened deployment stability for Kubernetes deployments and installation automation. Delivered concrete improvements enabling quicker, more reliable releases and clearer traceability.

February 2025 monthly summary: Across wazuh-ansible, wazuh-virtual-machines, wazuh-docker, wazuh-installation-assistant, and wazuh-puppet, delivered user-focused enhancements, improved boot UX, refined deployment pipelines, and aligned tooling for the 4.11.x release cycle. Notable work includes documentation cleanup to remove outdated version references, GRUB video preload for graphical boot, MOTD branding improvements, SSH login banner UX optimization, AMI build and service orchestration improvements, and updates to support Wazuh 4.11.1 across Docker and related tooling. Implemented RC tagging workflow for 4.11.0-rc1 and upgraded CI/CD tooling to 4.12.0; bumped puppet release version to 41103.

January 2025 performance highlights across wazuh-puppet, wazuh-kubernetes, wazuh-installation-assistant, and wazuh-virtual-machines: automated changelog updates and versioning across release management, provisioning automation, workflow stabilization, and targeted bug fixes that improve build reproducibility and testing. The month focused on strengthening release readiness, CI/CD alignment, and infrastructure reliability while delivering concrete business value through automation and robust release controls.

2024-12 monthly summary: Across the wazuh family, focused on release readiness, RC lifecycle stabilization, and CI/CD modernization. Key features delivered include release/version bumps to support 4.x releases and release tracking in wazuh-puppet, wazuh-kubernetes, wazuh-installation-assistant, wazuh-ansible, and wazuh-virtual-machines. Major bugs fixed include proper RC image tag management and correct source-branch handling for 4.x RCs, reducing release-risk. Overall impact: improved release traceability, production stability through stable images and branches, and faster integration of new 4.x releases. Technologies demonstrated: versioning discipline, Git-based release workflows, RC lifecycle management, Ubuntu 22.04 CI runners, and changelog/documentation updates.

November 2024 monthly summary across wazuh-virtual-machines, wazuh-puppet, wazuh-kubernetes, and wazuh-installation-assistant. Implemented CI/CD Python virtual environments for OVA/AMI packaging, automated version bumps for release numbering, and refined deployment workflows to improve packaging reliability and release stability. These changes enabled consistent builds, clearer versioning, and stronger release guarantees across multiple repos.