January 2026 monthly summary for the kamailio/kamailio repository: Delivered a focused feature enhancement to the xhttp_prom metrics subsystem to increase observability and labeling flexibility. The change adds support for including global tags in user-defined metrics and ensures metrics printing appends global tags when no explicit labels are provided, enabling consistent labeling across deployments and simplifying dashboard telemetry.

December 2025 (2025-12) monthly summary for kamailio/kamailio: - Key feature delivered: Metrics Export: UTF-8 Tag Value Support. This change enables exported metrics to include UTF-8 characters in tag values by removing sanitization, improving compatibility with multilingual data and expanding analytics capabilities across monitoring stacks. - Major bugs fixed: No major bugs fixed this month. - Overall impact and accomplishments: The feature enhances data fidelity for international deployments and broadens the set of analytics tools that can consume Kamailio metrics, improving decision-making and customer satisfaction. The patch is isolated to the xhttp_prom module and preserves API stability while delivering tangible business value by supporting non-ASCII data in metrics. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: C code changes in the metrics export pipeline, UTF-8 handling, sanitization policy changes, Git-based change tracking and commit hygiene, testing of metrics export compatibility, cross-team collaboration on analytics requirements.