December 2025: Delivered two high-impact changes in celestia-core that enhance consensus reliability and robustness. The Reliable Catchup Status from Local Store feature now determines catchup status using the committed local height instead of peer reports, improving determinism and resilience to peer variability. The Preservation of unverified proposals on verification errors ensures proposals are retained rather than discarded during error handling, strengthening the safety and robustness of the consensus path. These updates reduce data loss risk, improve liveness, and provide a more predictable synchronization experience for validators and light clients. Key commits supporting these changes are e76a3ac5abc35ee601ba196baec966dd4675466a and b5850ac7d807ab5d79842ea9c21cfa6e8d26f074.

October 2025 monthly summary for celestia-app focusing on delivering durable mempool configurability and reliability improvements that enable better throughput under bursts, with validated configurations and safer defaults.

February 2025 monthly summary for celestia-core: Focused work on CI hygiene improvements in the Celestia Core repository, reducing CI flakiness and ensuring visibility of failures in docker cleanup paths.