July 2025: Security, quality, and reliability improvements across mxcubeweb and mxcubecore delivered with measurable business value. The work strengthens the product’s security posture, accelerates safe deployments, and improves developer productivity through better tooling and tests.

June 2025 monthly summary for mxcubeweb: Delivered key infrastructure and quality improvements that strengthen reliability, security, and developer productivity. Highlights include configurable session database path via server.yaml, refined session path handling, and a development-friendly host configuration (localhost). Implemented rate limiting with Flask-Limiter, updated tests to reflect limiter behavior, and ensured limiter is disabled during Cypress tests to keep end-to-end workflows stable. Tightened API surface and cleaned up routes, along with comprehensive code quality and security fixes. Updated core dependencies to secure versions, and hardened CI workflow permissions to improve security and reproducibility. Minor UI styling and data normalization improvements completed to enhance consistency and user experience.