May 2026 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across two repositories: apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes and apache/incubator-kie-kogito-apps. Highlights include security and reliability improvements, codebase hygiene, and enhanced validation/tests that reduce misconfiguration risk.

October 2025 monthly summary for core KIE Kogito repos. Delivered key features across apps, runtimes, and examples; fixed security bug; established a reusable migration addon; improved data querying in GraphQL; documented usage in Quarkus example.

Month: 2025-08 — Across the KIE Kogito repositories, delivered business value by advancing Java 21 readiness in apps and hardening workflow security in runtimes. Java 21 Compatibility Readiness was achieved by updating configuration and metadata to ensure runtime compatibility with Java 21; no code changes detected. Workflow Engine - Excluded Users Restricted fixed a security gap to prevent excluded users from claiming or completing tasks, reinforcing the integrity of task assignments.

May 2025 monthly focus: reliability improvements in runtimes and API enhancements in apps, delivering concrete business value through improved error handling and richer GraphQL insights. Key outcomes: - Reliability: Fixed a logic issue in ExceptionHandlerTransaction that prevented process instances from entering the Error state, improving transaction processing correctness and downstream error handling. Commit: 08f4ec1d96089466a26e0e59ecee8ebd40b33dd0. (#3926) - API capabilities: Introduced GraphQL Counters data fetchers for CountJobs and CountProcessDefinitions to enable accurate counting via GraphQL queries, enhancing visibility into jobs and process definitions. Commit: 810909dd4f4015726aa7b1d679492a44177f2c50. (#2226)

March 2025 (2025-03) focused on delivering high-value features and documenting API surfaces to accelerate downstream development. Key accomplishments include enabling dynamic updates to process instance variables via a new mutation in the Data Index Addon, refactoring for clarity and test coverage, and publishing comprehensive Process Management API documentation to improve developer onboarding and API usability. The work across two repositories emphasized stability, data consistency, and API discoverability with direct business value in operations and development efficiency.