March 2025 monthly summary for cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud: Delivered container security hardening to run as non-root and enforce restricted capabilities across both controller and sidecar deployments. This change reduces privilege escalation risk, strengthens production security posture, and aligns with security baselines. The work is anchored by the commit 5788c1f72794a331e9176dabc625a5937abff010 (fix: controller and sidecar containers run as non-root (#225)).

Monthly summary for 2025-01 focused on EnterpriseDB/cloudnative-pg: delivered Operator Preflight Validation in the CD workflow and OLM catalog index image. This work adds preflight validation for the operator within the continuous delivery pipeline to ensure correct operation in an OLM environment, including installing operator-sdk and preflight, creating required secrets, and running the operator preflight test. Also built and pushed an index image for the OLM catalog to enable deployment via OLM. No explicit major bugs fixed this month; primary emphasis was on reliability and deployment readiness. This contributes to faster, safer deployments, reduced manual steps, and stronger operator readiness in production environments.

December 2024 highlights: two maintenance-focused releases across two repositories delivering stability improvements and improved test reporting. No new features released; the work prioritized build reliability and data quality to enhance release readiness and operator tooling stability.