May 2026 monthly summary for cipherstash/encrypt-query-language. Focused on hardening EQLv2 runtime, enabling inlining and functional-index compatibility, and strengthening CI/test tooling to improve reliability and security across deployments.

Month: 2026-03 — Focused on strengthening CipherStash Proxy's architectural clarity to accelerate onboarding, security reviews, and future development. Delivered comprehensive architecture documentation for the CipherStash Proxy, detailing internal structure, components, and how it provides transparent, searchable encryption for PostgreSQL databases. This work supports safer deployment, faster onboarding, and scalable maintenance.

February 2026 performance snapshot focusing on configurability, security, and release hygiene across CipherStash Proxy and Rust integration. Key features include ArrayIndexMode support for SteVec indexing with an upgraded cipherstash-client, updated tests/docs, and a release bump to 2.1.21. Also implemented Postgres searchable encryption capability in the Rust integration (CipherStash Proxy 2.1.20), with tests and documentation aligned. Addressed API changes in integration tests by adding required fields (term_filters, array_index_mode) to IndexType::SteVec. Result: improved security posture, configurability, compatibility, and faster time-to-value for users.

January 2026: Cipherstash Proxy – key features delivered, critical bugs fixed, and notable reliability and maintainability improvements. The work focused on robust error handling, encryption data handling, regression compatibility for legacy data, and infrastructure/docs cleanup, translating to higher uptime, safer data processing, and smoother deployment.

November 2025 contributed to cipherstash/encrypt-query-language by delivering automated, versioned documentation workflow and a tag-triggered rebuild automation, strengthening release-readiness and public docs accuracy. Implemented versioned docs generation and a GitHub Actions workflow to rebuild public docs when release tags with the 'eql-' prefix are pushed. This effort also ensured alignment of the docs generation with the main docs site structure, improving reliability and reducing manual maintenance during releases.

September 2025 monthly summary for cipherstash/proxy: Delivered configurable database connection via the CLI and added comprehensive CLI documentation, enabling flexible deployment and faster local development. The changes improve deployment parity across environments, reduce setup friction for new deployments, and provide clearer guidance for developers during testing.

March 2025 monthly summary for the cipherstash/proxy repo. Focused on preparing and communicating the Proxy V2 release through targeted README updates and release documentation, enabling smoother user adoption and alignment with product goals.

January 2025 focused on delivering a usability-enhancing feature for encryption configuration, strengthening query handling resilience, and leveling up test infrastructure. Key outcomes include: a new cs_config() function to inspect encryption configuration in cipherstash/encrypt-query-language, resilient frontend error handling in cipherstash/proxy that prevents connection termination on query errors and surfaces PostgreSQL errors to clients, and code quality/test infrastructure improvements including formatting, linting, and TLS certificate updates. These efforts reduce admin toil, improve reliability of client connections, and establish a foundation for faster iterations. Technologies demonstrated include Rust, TLS/test certificates, PostgreSQL protocol handling, and standard code quality practices.