December 2024 (2024-12) monthly summary for mandiant/VM-Packages. The month centered on delivering a new feature that enhances VM shortcut branding and install UX by enabling custom icons, along with alignment work across packaging components. No reported major bugs for this repo this month.

Month: 2024-11 – Delivered two core improvements across capa and VM-Packages, with no major bugs fixed this period. Key features: (1) capa Release workflow: switch web releases to PR-based artifacts with review, labeling, and checksums; (2) deterministic CI/CD by pinning the create-pull-request action to a specific commit. Commits: 32c428b989b6768a440c8c37a20cc4b2c2b87acd; 02b5e113804607d79044546ae33b7b7acada6f2b. (3) mandiant/VM-Packages: Introduced Capa Explorer Web Package (capa-explorer-web.vm) with Nuspec metadata and Chocolatey scripts for install/uninstall; depends on common.vm; downloads a zip containing the web explorer. Commit: 4a416d8fd92743867ac4430711ebc2f33bdd3874. Overall impact: improved release governance, traceability, and enterprise deployment readiness through standardized packaging and web-explorer access. Technologies demonstrated: GitHub Actions CI/CD, PR-based release workflow, artifact labeling, action pinning, Nuspec packaging, Chocolatey scripting, dependency management, and web interface integration.