October 2025 monthly summary for open-edge-platform/cluster-manager. This period focused on correctness and reliability of system label handling, specifically removing the trusted-compute-compatible label from systemPrefixes and TestSystemLabels to prevent misclassification. The change reduces false positives in policy enforcement and improves stability of cluster behavior across environments.

September 2025 focused on upgrading the K3s version in the cluster-manager default templates and Helm charts, delivering a clean, test-covered upgrade path that reduces upgrade risk and improves consistency for future releases.

This month delivered stable baseline deployment templates, security hardening, and maintainability improvements across three repos: cluster-manager, cluster-extensions, and cluster-api-provider-intel. Key changes include reverting the cluster default template to baseline, upgrading Helm chart templates with corresponding test adjustments, adding PSA privileged enforcement for addon namespaces, and removing unused code in the Intel provider. These changes reduce deployment risk, strengthen security posture, and improve maintainability while aligning versioning and tests across the platform.

July 2025 monthly summary for the open-edge-platform portfolio. Delivered a set of security, reliability, and consolidation improvements across clusters, drivers, and providers. Strengthened security posture with Pod Security Admission integration, fixed immutable environment provisioning, enhanced template management and versioning, overhauled deployment packaging, and extended Intel Cluster API Provider capabilities. These efforts reduce risk, simplify operations, and enable scalable production deployments across environments.

April 2025: Documentation and onboarding enhancements for the Cluster Connect Gateway with a focus on developer onboarding efficiency and readiness for contributions. This month primarily delivered a comprehensive README restructuring and Get Started improvements, with a pointer to the cluster-tests repo to streamline onboarding. No major bugs fixed this period; the work centers on documentation quality and contributor enablement.