March 2026 (pollen-robotics/reachy_mini) focused on improving motor diagnostics reliability via enhanced logging and explicit warnings for motor connection issues, while preserving reflashing information for troubleshooting. No separate critical bug fixes were reported this month; the emphasis was on diagnostic capabilities and operational resilience to reduce investigation time and downtime.

February 2026 monthly summary for pollen-robotics/reachy_mini: Delivered two significant features enabling easier deployment and management via Hugging Face integration, plus robust fixes to audio handling and CI workflows. The work focused on delivering business value through improved authentication, seamless updates, and reliable hardware interactions.

January 2026 focused on stabilizing and enhancing the Reachy Mini installation flow and preparing for broader release. Delivered a branch/tag-based installation path with UI visibility and backend validation, updated docs with a network status command and Ubuntu GStreamer guidance, and prepared the release by bumping the version to 1.2.6rc3. These changes improve onboarding, reduce support needs, and lay the groundwork for future packaging and broader OS support.

December 2025: Stabilized release process for reachy_mini, improved documentation and guidance, and tightened runtime efficiency. Delivered a consolidated release/versioning workflow across RCs leading to clearer progression from RC to stable, enhanced Bluetooth dashboard documentation with corrected hyperlink formatting, and targeted code refinements to reduce unnecessary work and improve clarity. Updated motor configuration status indicators for better visibility. Overall, these changes speed up shipping, improve developer and user experience, and strengthen code quality.

October 2025 monthly summary for pollen-robotics/reachy_mini: Delivered a critical bug fix to the launcher to ensure the Reachy Mini Daemon starts in the correct virtual environment, significantly improving startup reliability and deployment consistency.

Month: 2025-01 — Focused on stabilizing and simplifying the reachy2-sdk codebase to reduce maintenance risk and prepare for future features. Key activities include removing emotion prototypes and motor example code, reverting a previous change that introduced emotion prototype code, and ensuring the repository presents a clean baseline for development and testing. This work enhances reliability by eliminating unused and potentially confusing code paths, and aligns the project with the current feature roadmap.