March 2026 performance summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner, highlighting automation and update resilience.

February 2026 Monthly Summary: Delivered a reliability-focused enhancement to the self-hosted runner cache mount in greenbone/actions by configuring mount options to sync and read-write on NFS, improving data integrity and cache stability. This change reduces cache-related failures and contributes to faster, more predictable CI builds. Key commit: 74b5b31f3a60749dac4719420cbf370298d629bd. No major bug fixes reported this month; primary value comes from strengthening the caching mechanism and reliability of self-hosted runners.

November 2025 focused on accelerating automation for critical OpenVAS components by introducing automated update workflows for the Automatix service across two Greenbone repositories. The efforts strengthened CI/CD reliability, reduced manual maintenance, and established a scalable pattern for future updates.

October 2025: The openvas-scanner project focused on CI/CD security hardening and pipeline reliability. Delivered a new read-only path to the Greenbone Registry via GitHub Actions secrets, enabling secure image pulls without granting write access.

May 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/actions. Delivered documentation improvements and deployment flexibility to strengthen automation reliability and developer onboarding. Key changes reduced misconfigurations and enhanced deployment resilience, enabling smoother CI workflows and faster iteration cycles.

December 2024 monthly summary focused on stabilizing and accelerating the openvas-scanner release process through CI/CD automation enhancements. The primary delivery fixed a blocker in the automated build and push pipeline by provisioning necessary GitHub Actions secrets for the compose product update, enabling unattended releases and reducing manual intervention.

November 2024: Delivered targeted improvements across two repositories to improve reliability of actions, safety of container updates, and CI/CD resilience. Focused on bug fixes that prevent parsing errors and feature enhancement to ensure the correct service is updated during container image pushes.