March 2026 focused on delivering a cross-repo refinement to VTGate handshake behavior by propagating the ServerStatusAutocommit flag to reflect the default autocommit state for new MySQL connections. The change was implemented in both planetscale/vitess and vitessio/vitess, aligning status flags reported to clients with the actual session defaults and improving client correctness and observability. This work was delivered with two commits: - 85233949a3663f48b3bd7c6e38c7817c349eb352 (planetscale/vitess) - 38435bdb548f1ea0a88122cfe8b7a220212582f1 (vitessio/vitess) Impact: Clients now see autocommit=true by default during handshake, reducing confusion and follow-up support tickets. No major bug fixes were recorded for this month in the provided data.