April 2026 monthly summary: The team delivered reliability, performance, and data-management improvements across wazuh-indexer-plugins and wazuh-indexer. Key features introduced include space reset workflows for Content Management and Security Analytics, improvements to CI/CD caching for Maven builds, and packaging/ data-handling improvements. Notable changes include tzdb packaging with RPM, and data model optimization to reduce storage. Documentation updates clarify detector rule limits to prevent misconfigurations. Overall, these changes reduce stale resources, streamline deployments, and improve data handling, contributing to safer configurations and faster recovery in monitoring pipelines.

March 2026 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins focused on expanding IoC data handling capabilities, delivering an end-to-end IoC delivery pipeline, and stabilizing the testing surface. The work enhances ingestion of IoCs with dynamic type handling, runtime type determination, and schema/mappings updates, while ensuring reliable engine data export and notification. Also improved test stability by restoring EngineService capabilities and cleaning up legacy test hooks.

February 2026: Delivered core data model enhancements and ECS-aligned mappings in wazuh-indexer-plugins, improving threat intel ingestion, data quality, and governance. Implemented CTI-driven IoC downloads, SHA-256 hashing support, and per-type indexing for IoCs; removed non-standard fields in F5 BIG-IP mappings to align with ECS; upgraded integrations and resolved a merge conflict, strengthening stability and maintainability across the indexer plugin suite.

January 2026 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: delivered major API and schema enhancements enabling richer resource management and unified IoC indexing, driving improved data integrity, threat visibility, and platform extensibility. Key work included extending the Resources API with user-generated content management endpoints, tightening data serialization, OpenAPI docs, and introducing a comprehensive IoC schema with a single index and updated templates. These changes reduce operational friction for defenders and lay groundwork for scalable content and threat intelligence workflows.

December 2025 performance highlights across wazuh-indexer and wazuh-indexer ecosystems. Delivered key features and stability improvements across two repositories, with a focus on business value: reduced schema noise, more reliable CI/CD pipelines, and smoother SAP integration. The work enables faster, more predictable deployments and clearer documentation for users and maintainers.

Month: 2025-10 This month delivered key features across wazuh-indexer and its plugins, focusing on automated maintenance, secure permissions, and improved development tooling. The work reduces operational toil, hardens dependency management, and strengthens data ingestion and alerting capabilities, enabling faster and safer releases. Key features delivered: - wazuh/wazuh-indexer: Automated Dependency Management and Link Validation Enhancements - Enhances maintenance workflows by updating Dependabot configurations and the link checker action. - Adds a new Dependabot configuration for GitHub Actions and expands the link checker scope to include an RPM spec file, improving automated dependency management and link validation. - Commits: 21783069af670f7e7477fe420731b5e2faaaee73 - wazuh/wazuh-indexer: Kibana Server Alerting and Notifications Permissions - Maps alerting_full_access and notifications_full_access roles to the kibanaserver user in Wazuh Indexer. - Updates CHANGELOG.md and roles_mapping.wazuh.yml to grant the kibanaserver user the necessary permissions for alerting and notification functionalities. - Commit: 3fd157d08ae73fb0e7a5399fe948a38d7fed27aa - wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: Automated Dependabot configuration for GitHub Actions updates - Configure Dependabot to automatically manage GitHub Actions dependencies; update dependabot.yml and CHANGELOG to reflect this change. - Commit: 65044c6e5c7d780bade9418ef529dd3f70abaf31 - wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: WCS schema enhancement: log source location and ingestion queue fields - Add wazuh.protocol.location and wazuh.protocol.queue fields to WCS; update documentation and schema definitions. - Commit: e4a5466caabb383e9b9ffe3c172839afa1fb9e88 - wazuh/wazuh-indexer-plugins: Development tooling and repository structure improvements - Improve development tooling by enabling automatic regeneration of dependent stateless modules and restructure tooling under a tools/ directory. - Commits: ad30d6609f20a6e2479cdbd8849a6e2e63793240, 17844d057e9367efd22abe560da9d6d59c379b54 Major bugs fixed: - Expanded link validation coverage by including RPM spec files, addressing validation gaps in automated checks. - Mapped alerting and notifications roles to the kibanaserver user, resolving permissions gaps for alerting and notifications. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Reduced manual maintenance toil through automated dependency management and enhanced validation, improving release confidence and cadence. - Strengthened security and observability by ensuring correct permissions for alerting/notification workflows and enriching WCS schema for accurate data ingestion. - Improved developer productivity through tooling improvements and repository structure refinements that enable faster iteration and easier onboarding. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - GitHub Actions, Dependabot configurations, and automated dependency management - IAM/permissions modeling and role mapping for alerting and notifications (kibanaserver user) - Wazuh Indexer and WCS schema expansions, including new protocol fields - Documentation, CHANGELOG governance, and release note curation - Development tooling improvements and repository refactoring (tools/ directory, automatic regeneration of modules)

September 2025 — Wazuh Indexer Plugins: Delivered documentation updates for the Wazuh Indexer Setup Plugin, including inventory indices browser-extensions and services, and refreshed CHANGELOG to reflect recent changes. These updates improve developer onboarding, alignment with product capabilities, and release traceability.

Month 2025-08 — Delivered configurable Agent Status Monitoring Refresh Interval in wazuh/wazuh, adding a new configuration option to customize update frequency and providing more flexible agent information updates. The change improves scalability by reducing unnecessary polling in large deployments while maintaining backward compatibility with the default refresh interval. Core work centered on a single commit: 2de5df8d58238d1a3efab2bef86a33c010c8c725 ('Update refresh interval'). No major bugs fixed this month; emphasis was on robust feature delivery, code quality, and documentation. Technologies demonstrated include configuration management, Git-based collaboration, CI validation, and clear documentation updates. Business value: greater control over monitoring cadence, improved resource utilization, and better alignment with deployment scales.

In July 2025, delivered release and versioning refinements for wazuh-indexer to ensure accurate packaging, clearer release communication, and a cleaner upgrade path. Focused on the 4.13.1 release cycle and cross-branch alignment with 4.14.0.

June 2025: Delivered automation for release management and ISM lifecycle enhancements across wazuh-indexer and wazuh-indexer-plugins, improving release speed, consistency, and index lifecycle control. Implemented GitHub Actions-based bump automation, ISM rollover policy for stateless indices, and robust testing, accompanied by documentation and changelog updates to align with release expectations and ECS state management.

May 2025: Focused on enhancing the templating system in wazuh/wazuh. Delivered usability and accuracy improvements to the templating layer, resulting in clearer template outputs and fewer manual adjustments. The work was implemented via targeted refinements to existing templates and a refinement commit, improving automation reliability and end-user experience.

During April 2025, delivered a focused, non-functional refactor to standardize schema naming in wazuh/wazuh by renaming the registry.mtime field to date. This aligns field semantics with its meaning, reduces confusion for developers, and sets the stage for future schema evolution. The work was executed via a single commit (0756c2a12dc36b8ecd18802a0dd0ae0c91fd0332) and enhances maintainability, traceability, and downstream tooling compatibility. No major bugs were fixed this month; the primary value lies in improved data model clarity and readiness for upcoming changes. Technologies demonstrated include codebase refactoring discipline, naming conventions, and precise commit-based change management.

March 2025 Performance Summary: Focused on elevating reporting capabilities in wazuh/wazuh by delivering a more robust and accurate Report Templating Engine. The work enhances template processing, presentation quality, and rendering stability, directly supporting clearer, more reliable security and compliance reporting for customers.

January 2025 monthly summary for wazuh/wazuh-documentation. Key deliverables: Upgrade Guide Enhancement: Central components vulnerability mappings guidance. Added a note about manually updating wazuh-states-vulnerabilities-* mappings due to new fields in the latest Wazuh version; clarified that it's required when upgrading from v4.9.x. Commits included: 712ad5cc230351805c388f456fb7b1eef3610f55 (Adding a note to update existing vulnerabilities indices mappings) and 3ba268763b4c338d99ee2fb3e59775de6de8168f (Improve wording of the note).