April 2026 monthly summary focusing on security posture and release communications across NRIs, with prevalidation improvements and changelog hygiene.

March 2026 monthly summary for release-oriented work across newrelic/nri-mssql and newrelic/nri-prometheus. Focus this month was to formalize release notes, document dependency upgrades, and surface security-related notices to customers. All work was tracked via changelog updates and versioning changes across both repositories, with clear traceability to individual commits.

February 2026: Delivered cross-repo release readiness improvements and security posture updates across the NRi ecosystem. Key packages updated include nri-docker, nri-prometheus, and nri-mssql, with Go dependency upgrades to v1.25.7 and targeted changelog updates for security and versioning.

January 2026 monthly summary: Focused on feature releases and dependency maintenance across nri-mssql and nri-prometheus. Delivered SQL Server 2016 support for Query Performance Monitoring in NRI-MSSQL v2.26.0 and updated release notes with dependency changes in NRI-Prometheus v2.27.5/v2.27.6, ensuring compatibility with go-mssqldb, logrus, and core Go modules. Emphasis on improved observability, reliability, and alignment with release cadence.

December 2025 monthly summary for newrelic/nri-mssql: Key release-focused activities and maintenance enabling continued stability and compatibility for MSSQL integration. Delivered Version 2.25.2 release notes and dependency upgrades, ensuring compatibility with updated go-mssqldb and Go runtime patches. This work improves security posture, reduces technical debt, and enhances customers' ability to leverage the latest SQL Server features with minimal upgrade friction.

November 2025 focused on performance optimization, feature flag enablement, and release-management hygiene across three NRIs. Delivered concrete improvements that reduce operational overhead, improve monitoring fidelity, and accelerate safe upgrades for customers. Key deliveries span nri-mssql, nri-docker, and nri-prometheus: - nri-mssql: performance enhancements for slow/wait queries documented in v2.24.0; introduced a new feature flag QueryMonitoringDisableHistoricalInformation to skip historical data collection for QPM queries; published release notes for v2.25.0/v2.25.1 with dependency updates. - nri-docker: coordinated sequential version bumps to 2.6.3, 2.6.4, and 2.6.5 with Go 1.25.3 and Docker updates; included changelog-driven release notes for each version. - nri-prometheus: released v2.27.3 and bumped Go dependency to v1.25.3; changelog updated accordingly. These efforts deliver business value through reduced runtime overhead, safer upgrade paths, and clearer audit trails across ecosystems.

October 2025: Release-focused month delivering customer-facing release documentation and improved governance across two NRIs. Key contributions include documenting docker dependency updates in nri-docker for v2.6.1 and v2.6.2, and releasing nri-mssql v2.22.0 with a CHANGELOG entry highlighting a QPM enhancement. These changes improve upgrade transparency, reduce customer risk, and establish a solid baseline for ongoing QPM improvements.

September 2025 monthly summary highlighting targeted feature delivery, critical bug fixes, and release hygiene improvements across the NRIs. The work emphasized observability, reliability, and dependency modernization to accelerate troubleshooting, reduce downtime risk, and align with platform upgrade cycles.

August 2025 monthly summary: Focused on stability, dependency hygiene, and release governance across nri-mssql, nri-docker, and nri-prometheus. Delivered a reliability fix for time-based operations, released versioned updates with updated release notes and dependency bumps, and maintained clear changelogs to support smooth deployments.

July 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering impactful features, stabilizing metrics, and aligning dependencies to improve security, performance, and operator efficiency.

June 2025 monthly summary for newrelic/nri-mssql and newrelic/nri-prometheus. Focused on documenting releases and enhancements via changelog entries; no explicit bug fixes recorded. Delivered clear release notes for v2.18.2, v2.19.0 on nri-mssql, and v2.26.0 on nri-prometheus, enabling better customer communication and smoother upgrade paths. This work demonstrates strong documentation discipline, release-process hygiene, and alignment with versioned feature sets, with traceability to individual commits.

May 2025—Focused on strengthening release documentation and dependency hygiene across two NRIs, delivering clearer guidance for users and more secure, maintainable codebases.

April 2025 monthly summary: Across the nri-prometheus, nri-docker, and nri-mssql repositories, delivered feature updates, maintained dependency hygiene, and improved observability capabilities. Highlights include multi-version changelog updates in nri-prometheus (v2.24.3, v2.24.4, v2.25.0), a Windows cpuLimitCores metric enhancement in nri-docker (v2.4.0), and Azure SQL version support in nri-mssql with a golang.org/x/crypto upgrade (v2.18.0). All work was documented with explicit release notes and linked commits to enable traceability and faster customer onboarding. This strengthens upgrade paths, metric accuracy, and cross-cloud compatibility, delivering tangible business value in monitoring reliability and platform support.

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on release-notes discipline, platform coverage, and reliability improvements across three repos: nri-prometheus, nri-mssql, and nri-docker. Key features delivered include: updated release notes to reflect dependency bumps (Prometheus client_golang v1.21.1; Viper v1.20.0) for v2.24.1/v2.24.2; documented bug fixes for v2.17.1 in nri-mssql (null value handling in custom query metrics); Windows container support in nri-docker (v2.3.0) with accompanying release notes; and a Windows config file bug fix in v2.3.1 with release notes updates. These changes reinforce accurate user guidance, cross-platform support, and metric reliability.

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in release engineering and observability improvements across nri-mssql and nri-prometheus, with Go version bumps and release-notes-driven business value.

January 2025: Release-note-focused update for nri-prometheus. Implemented a changelog update to capture Go dependency v1.23.5 release notes and linked it to v2.23.1 changes to maintain cross-version traceability. This strengthens release transparency, onboarding, and audit readiness. No major bugs fixed in this repository this month; primary work was documentation and release hygiene.

December 2024 monthly summary focusing on release-note driven documentation, dependency management, and governance across three NRIs: nri-mssql, nri-docker, and nri-prometheus. Delivered structured release notes with version-by-version updates, enabling clearer customer visibility into changes, security/compliance updates, and performance-related improvements. Major emphasis on Go ecosystem updates (patch versions), x/net, and FIPS-compliant packages, plus release automation enhancements (Goreleaser) where applicable.