February 2026 — Key feature delivery: Portal Metadata Availability Check implemented in geonetwork/core-geonetwork to verify metadata presence and return 404 when missing. Included tests covering multiple scenarios, including subportals, to ensure robust behavior across portals. Major quality and maintainability improvements: fixed MetadataApiTest, addressed rebasing to origin/main, and tidied related code paths referenced in the commit. This work reduces user-facing errors, improves metadata reliability across portal instances, and strengthens CI readiness for multi-portal deployments.

January 2026: Geonetwork core feature delivered focused on robust metadata sharing permissions governance. Implemented Metadata Sharing Permissions Synchronization on Group Change for geonetwork/core-geonetwork, ensuring permissions from the old group are removed and the new group's permissions are applied, while guarding against permission changes when groupId is unset. This reduces permission drift, improves metadata access control, and simplifies admin workflows. Implemented in commit eb0e8d82bb957ad8333ff57f1efb51834236ab62, co-authored by David Blasby and Jody Garnett, targeting the geonetwork/core-geonetwork repository.

Monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on geoserver/geoserver work with emphasis on auth flow reliability and WFS test correctness. Key outcomes include targeted bug fixes, regression test coverage, and improvements in build stability. The following highlights capture the business value and technical achievements for the period.

September 2025: Delivered a security-focused OIDC overhaul spanning login, roles, testing, and docs. Implemented CSP hardening and removal of inline styles/scripts, loaded assets externally, and introduced anchor-based login/logout to improve CSP compliance and UX. Polished UI: reliable CSS load for the OIDC panel and automatic toggle initialization. Enhanced OIDC Roles Mapping with new configuration for role conversion/extraction and improved GeoServer integration. Expanded OIDC testing with containerized Keycloak tests and released documentation for installation/configuration and role mapping, plus initial OIDC security module docs and community index update. Business value: stronger security posture, more reliable authentication UX, clearer role governance, and faster deployment.