March 2026 monthly summary for wirenboard/wb-mqtt-serial focusing on stability, diagnostics, and lifecycle management. Delivered five key features/bug fixes that improve reliability, data correctness, and direct firmware update capabilities. The work reduces crashes from misconfigured alarm templates, enhances user diagnostics, optimizes data reads with condition-based filtering, fixes pushbutton publish behavior under max_unchanged_interval, and provides a built-in firmware update subsystem for Modbus devices.

July 2025 — Delivered Modbus TCP support for Port/Load RPC in wirenboard/wb-mqtt-serial, enabling the 'modbus-tcp' protocol with dynamic Modbus RTU/TCP trait selection and updated request parsing to include the protocol type. Added a changelog entry for version 2.180.0 to surface the new feature. Also completed a code formatting cleanup for Modbus serial client requests to address clang-format inconsistencies with no functional changes. These changes extend device interoperability with Modbus TCP, streamline maintenance, and reduce integration effort for customers deploying Modbus-enabled hardware.

February 2025: Port Probe MQTT Reporting Improvements delivered for wirenboard/homeui. Refactored the port probe check script to separate concerns, added new functions to publish results and 'not found' statuses, and consolidated MQTT publishing logic. This ensures accurate status reporting when the probe is disabled or on cooldown, improving reliability for downstream consumers and automation workflows.