Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on release engineering across four core Greenbone repositories. The period emphasizes automated versioning, development flag management, and lifecycle automation to ensure stable, traceable releases with faster delivery cadences and reduced manual errors. Business value is driven by consistent versioning across products, smoother cross-repo release transitions, and improved traceability for customers and QA.

September 2025: Implemented cross-repo Release Versioning Automation across greenbone/gvm-libs, greenbone/openvas-scanner, greenbone/gvmd, and greenbone/gsa. Automations update CMakeLists.txt, Helm Chart.yaml, and version.ts to reflect stable and development releases, consolidating multiple commits into cohesive release features per repository. This standardizes version bumps, improves release traceability, and reduces manual steps across the release workflow.

August 2025 saw a focused push on release engineering across four Greenbone repositories, delivering automated versioning and build metadata to support repeatable, transparent releases. We automated version bumps and development/stable flags across gvm-libs (22.24.0–22.26.1), completed multi-repo bumps for gsa (25.2.x–25.3.x), drove the gvmd 26.2.x lifecycle from initial release through post-release development, and prepared openvas-scanner for a 23.23.1 release. The changes improve build traceability, shorten release cycles, and reduce manual steps, delivering clear business value through faster, more reliable software delivery and consistent versioning across the product line.

July 2025 performance highlights: Focused on release/versioning automation and build-system consistency across four Greenbone repositories (openvas-scanner, gvm-libs, gvmd, and gsa). All changes centered on automated version bumps, development-state handling, and alignment of core components with deployment charts for reliable releases. No explicit user-facing bugs fixed this period; the work emphasizes reducing release risk, accelerating rollouts, and improving traceability of version milestones across the stack. Demonstrated technologies include CMakeLists.txt and Chart.yaml version handling, PROJECT_DEV_VERSION toggling, and automation-friendly commit workflows across CI pipelines.

June 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering a routine OpenVAS Scanner release and ensuring packaging and build metadata accuracy across the repository.

May 2025 focused on release/version-management across the OpenVAS suite. Primary work involved coordinated version bumps, development flag management, and release readiness across four repositories. No explicit bug fixes documented; emphasis on automation, packaging alignment, and build status visibility to enable faster deployment of new scanner versions.

Month: 2025-04 Overview: Delivered automated release-versioning and dev/stable flag management across four core Greenbone repos, standardizing semantic versioning and release workflows to accelerate delivery, improve build reliability, and reduce manual errors. Key features delivered: - greenbone/gvm-libs: Release Versioning and Dev Flag Automation — centralized automation that increments release versions and manages development/stable flags in CMakeLists.txt; combined multiple release-related commits into a single feature (22.20.0, 22.21.0). - greenbone/gvmd: Release Version 25.2.x — Stable releases and development toggle management — automates transitions to 25.2.0 (stable) and 25.2.1 (development), with prep for 25.2.2. - greenbone/gsa: Software Release Versioning for 24.6.x Cycle — consolidated release/versioning for 24.6.0, 24.6.1, and 24.6.2 development. - greenbone/openvas-scanner: OpenVAS Scanner Release 23.17.0 — bump from 23.16.1 to 23.17.0 in CMakeLists.txt and Chart.yaml. Major bugs fixed: - No explicit defect fixes captured in the data; primary focus was automated release tooling, consistency, and cleanup to ensure deterministic builds and smoother releases (post-release adjustments with [skip ci] markers). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Achieved cross-repo release governance: consistent versioning and development cycles across gvm-libs, gvmd, gsa, and openvas-scanner. - Reduced manual steps, shortened release cycles, improved traceability with explicit commit references, and laid groundwork for future cycles (25.2.x and 24.6.x lines, 23.17.0 patch cadence). Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Release automation engineering (CMakeLists.txt, Chart.yaml), semantic versioning, multiple repo coordination, CI/CD hygiene (skip ci), and build-system discipline.

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments across Greenbone repositories, highlighting release readiness, version management, and deployment reliability. Major activities include coordinated version bumps and official releases in OpenVAS Scanner, GVMD, GSA, and GVM-libs, along with development-cycle prep and release automation improvements. No explicit high-severity bugs fixed this month; value delivered through stabilization, traceability, and faster patch cycles across the product line.

February 2025: Delivered automated release versioning and development flag management across the Greenbone/GVM stack, enabling repeatable, auditable releases and smoother post-release development. Implemented automated version bumps and development state tagging across gvmd, gvm-libs, gsa, and openvas-scanner, aligning core components and Helm charts with release milestones to accelerate time-to-release and improve traceability.

January 2025: Release-versioning automation across core Greenbone repos (gvm-libs, openvas-scanner, gvmd, gsa). Focused on delivering robust version management, release prep, and build-flag automation with no functional changes to features. Consolidated multiple patch/minor releases into cohesive release captures to improve release velocity and governance. Evidence includes automated version bumps across CMakeLists.txt, Chart.yaml, and PROJECT_DEV_VERSION flags; skip ci markers used to separate tooling steps.

December 2024: Focused on release automation, version lifecycle management, and release readiness across core Greenbone repositories. Delivered consistent versioning across libs, VMd, GSA, and OpenVAS Scanner, enabling safer post-release adjustments and faster cycle times while maintaining backward compatibility. No functional feature changes beyond version bumps this month, but automation and process improvements reduced manual steps and risk.

November 2024 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Key feature delivered: automated release version bumps coordinated across the core project and the openvasd Helm chart, consolidating updates from 23.10.0 to 23.13.1 with intermediate bumps. This work enhances release traceability and ensures multi-component version alignment, enabling smoother testing and deployment.

Monthly summary for 2024-10 focusing on release readiness for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Primary work centered on version bump and release preparation to enable a smooth 23.10.0 rollout.