February 2026 monthly summary for cozystack/cozystack focused on delivering business value through platform-wide enhancements, reliability improvements, and scalable infrastructure updates. Key outcomes include enabling new data tooling with Qdrant, tightening API validation to support dynamic cluster configurations, modernizing Harbor registry storage with S3 via COSI, stabilizing end-to-end tests, and maturing operator and CRD workflows for safer upgrades and deployments. The month also expanded Kubernetes compatibility and improved CI/CD reliability to support faster, safer delivery to production.

January 2026 delivered a comprehensive set of platform enhancements for cozystack/cozystack across Talos and non-Talos deployments, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and deployment flexibility. Key outcomes include a MongoDB Managed Application based on the Percona Operator (replica sets, sharded cluster mode, RBAC, external access, PITR backups, bootstrap/restore, and integration with WorkloadMonitor), plus server configurability to support non-Talos deployments (networking.apiServer host/port and cilium cgroup autoMount). The isp-full-generic bundle variant and dedicated values file enable generic Kubernetes variants (kubeadm/k3s/RKE2) with Velero backups by default, and installer manifest variants now split into talos/generic/hosted for safer, target-specific deployments. Additional platform-level improvements include Talos-conditional configuration, MASTER_NODES support for KubeOVN on non-Talos clusters, and workflow refinements to unify behavior across variants.

December 2025 — Delivered targeted reliability and quality improvements across three core repos: longhorn-manager, cilium, and cozystack. Key outcomes include fixes to port handling in manager-url middleware and a refactor of API middleware settings retrieval to reduce log noise in Longhorn Manager; a robust exponential backoff retry for Gateway API CRD discovery to preserve TLS termination during API server outages in Cilium; and a suite of registry and Kubernetes enhancements in Cozystack, including alphabetical sorting for resource lists, cross-cluster egress for cert-manager HTTP-01 checks, and DNS-1035 naming validation with corresponding UI/OpenAPI updates. These changes reduce operational risk, improve deployment reliability, and tighten governance around resource naming and API behavior. They also reflect a strong focus on Go-based code quality, Kubernetes API patterns, and multi-cluster readiness.

This monthly summary highlights the notable features delivered, major fixes, and the business value realized in November 2025 across two repositories. The work emphasizes performance-oriented refactors, centralized validation logic, and enhanced exporter capabilities that improve usability and reliability for customers.

October 2025: Focused on improving external API usability and reliability for Longhorn Manager by adding a configurable Manager URL and comprehensive header handling. Implemented a new manager-url setting, Middleware to override X-Forwarded headers, and global router integration, with comprehensive tests. This fixed leakage of internal cluster IPs in API responses when accessed via Ingress/Gateway HTTPRoute, improving external URL accuracy, developer experience, and interoperability with external deployments.