During the month, this developer focused on enhancing proxy support and reliability across the Automattic/vip-security-boost and Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins repositories. They implemented a fix in PHP to allow proxied XML-RPC requests, ensuring legitimate traffic could access XML-RPC functionality without compromising security. In vip-go-mu-plugins, they expanded Jetpack request detection by updating proxy parsing logic to handle all forwarded IPs via HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, improving accuracy for requests routed through proxies. Additional tests were introduced to increase code coverage and validate proxy handling. Their work emphasized API security, backend development, and robust WordPress integration, delivering measurable improvements in traffic reliability.