July 2026: Cross-repo delivery focused on security, reliability, and release governance. Key outcomes include enabling External Key Manager (EKM) support in Key Vault SDK code generation, stabilizing Challenge Auth replay behavior, and improving release history hygiene for Key Vault SDKs. This work enhances security posture, developer productivity, and customer-facing transparency across Azure SDKs.

May 2026 monthly summary for Azure/azure-rest-api-specs: - Key feature delivered: .NET EKM Overrides for Azure Key Vault, enabling management of EKM connections and certificates for .NET applications. This enhancement improves integration, usability, and security posture for .NET developers interfacing with Key Vault. - Data point: Commit 0aea5f5666b9d631d37074a2f9c9bd8ba0dd1eff associated with the feature; PR reference: #42793; co-authored by Hari K and Mike Harder. - Major bugs fixed: None listed for this month in the provided data. - Overall impact and accomplishments: Strengthens secure key management workflows in .NET contexts, reduces integration friction for EKM in Azure Key Vault, and demonstrates end-to-end feature delivery with collaborative contributions across the team. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: .NET, EKM, Azure Key Vault, REST API specs, cross-functional collaboration, Git-based code contributions.