July 2025 monthly summary for cipherstash/proxy: Strengthened quality and release confidence by expanding integration test coverage (JSONB and showcase workflows), stabilizing the test harness for schema resets, and improving test orchestration (TLS, PostgreSQL readiness) to enable faster, safer deployments.

June 2025 monthly summary for cipherstash/proxy: Delivered observability enhancement by introducing a new Prometheus metric STATEMENTS_SESSION_DURATION_SECONDS to measure the total duration of statement processing in the proxy (encryption, database execution, and decryption). This metric complements existing STATEMENTS_EXECUTION_DURATION_SECONDS and, together with updated documentation and session timing context management, provides end-to-end latency visibility for troubleshooting, capacity planning, and SLA verification. Commit 42cf1d94650aac2e5b860efc03a6357e52b8d096: feat(proxy): Introduces `prometheus::STATEMENTS_SESSION_DURATION_SECONDS`.

May 2025 performance summary for cipherstash/proxy. Focused on documentation quality, deployment clarity, and metrics accuracy to accelerate onboarding, reduce misconfigurations, and strengthen observability. Delivered targeted documentation updates and a critical metric rename to align monitoring with proxied SQL execution time, enabling faster incident diagnosis and more reliable production runs.

April 2025 monthly summary for cipherstash/proxy focusing on the SQL parsing stack upgrade and parser refactor. Delivered a robust upgrade to the SQL toolkit, with code changes to accommodate new parser variants and align with the library structure, laying groundwork for future SQL features and improved reliability.

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements for cipherstash/proxy. The main delivery was enhancing Docker build debugging visibility by adding a conditional flag in mise.toml to emit plain text output when DEBUG is set, enabling deeper visibility into the docker build process and logs.

February 2025 monthly summary for cipherstash/proxy: Delivered AWS RDS Certificate Bundle Integration with optional loading into the system certificate store, controlled by the CS_DATABASE__INSTALL_AWS_RDS_CERT_BUNDLE environment variable. Includes an entrypoint script and Dockerfile updates to fetch and install AWS RDS trust anchors, improving connectivity and reliability when connecting to AWS RDS databases. Commit 7333c734c6985a74a7cb916d2f37ed624fc1b46f implemented this feature.

January 2025: cipherstash/proxy delivered targeted fixes to stabilize TLS behavior in preflight tests and enhanced developer workflows, increasing test reliability and local debugging speed. The preflight TLS flag handling bug was fixed to align TLS usage with port ranges, improving test correctness and deployment confidence. Development environment enhancements reduced noise from Docker CLI hints and added two 'mise run' helpers to run psql against PostgreSQL and the proxy, accelerating local validation. These changes improve test stability, developer productivity, and overall system reliability.

Monthly summary for 2024-10 focusing on cipherstash/encrypt-query-language bug fix and overall build robustness. Delivered a safety improvement for build script execution context to ensure that justfile bash scripts execute relative to the repository root, preventing path-related failures when invoked from outside the repo. This change reduces CI/local build flakiness and improves developer experience.