March 2026 monthly summary for pentaho/pentaho-scheduler-plugin focusing on business value and technical quality. Delivered a critical timezone handling fix for the scheduling UI to ensure accurate timezone interpretation for single and run-once jobs. The changes include updates to configuration, Spring beans, and database schema to support new scheduling features and align UI behavior with backend scheduling semantics.

February 2026 (2026-02) focused on stabilizing VFS workflows by reverting changes that impacted the parameter API and scheduling capabilities. In pentaho-platform, we rolled back VFS parameter API modifications to restore existing file handling behavior. In pentaho-kettle, we reverted updates affecting scheduling of KTR and KJB files from VFS, returning to verified, pre-change functionality. These actions preserved backward compatibility for customers relying on VFS-based pipelines and reduced potential disruption across integrations.

June 2025: Delivered Plugin Manager UI improvements for pentaho/pentaho-kettle, focusing on clarity, consistency, and usability for handling missing plugins in jobs and transformation steps. Key changes include renaming Marketplace to Plugin Manager, conditional display of the Plugin Manager button based on availability, and clearer, actionable error messages.

April 2025 monthly summary for pentaho-pentaho-kettle: Focused on onboarding UX improvements and codebase cleanup to reduce friction for new users and lower maintenance costs. Delivered Plugin Manager Welcome Screen UX cleanup, including removal of Marketplace link from Extend, deletion of unused index_no_osgi.html, and a refactor of the welcome-page loading logic in Spoon.java. These changes simplify onboarding, reduce unused content, and improve maintainability.

March 2025 - Key release: XPath Settings Validation and Security Enhancement in pentaho-platform. Implemented isXPathUnSafe flag, integrated validation into getSetting/getSettings, updated user-facing messages, and allowed '*' in XPath settings. Security impact: mitigates potential XPath injection risks; delivered via PPP-5594 fixes. Repositories: pentaho/pentaho-platform.