March 2025 monthly summary for pentaho-platform focusing on key accomplishments. Implemented SSRF protection via URL validation with a whitelist, controlled by a system property. Added URL validation utilities and comprehensive unit tests to ensure outbound requests only target whitelisted hosts. This work tightens security around external integrations and reduces risk of data leakage associated with server-side request forgery.

January 2025 monthly summary for pentaho/pentaho-scheduler-plugin. Focused on reliability and resource management during shutdown. Key outcomes include a critical bug fix to unload all scheduler lifecycle listeners during shutdown, preventing resource leaks and ensuring a clean shutdown when stop-pentaho.bat is used.

Security patch in pentaho/big-data-plugin to mitigate a JDom vulnerability by updating to a patched version. The change was reviewed and applied with careful dependency management and validated against existing data workflows to minimize risk of regressions. Commit baf70397ee0ad108e6da55dbf124b224c131cbe9 was the primary patch reference. This work enhances the product's security posture and supports ongoing secure release practices.