February 2026 monthly summary for EnterpriseDB/cloudnative-pg. Key feature delivered: PostgreSQL extension name underscores support with automatic Kubernetes naming sanitization, enabling underscore characters in extension names while ensuring compatibility with Kubernetes volume naming. The change was implemented via commit 85fa0c5d17bfe45680cef3953caf5098a61ee416 (feat(extensions): support underscores in extension names (#9386)). Impact: reduces deployment friction for customers deploying extensions in Kubernetes, improves reliability of extension deployment, and aligns with cloud-native naming conventions. Major bugs fixed: none reported this month. Overall impact: improved compatibility and reliability of cloud-native deployments, enabling smoother customer onboarding and scaling of extension usage. Technologies/skills demonstrated: PostgreSQL extension development, Kubernetes naming conventions and sanitization, Git-based change management and PR-driven development, and code review discipline.

Month 2025-10: Maintained documentation accuracy for Helm charts by updating links to the current docs, ensuring users access up-to-date guidance for service management, bootstrap procedures, and LDAP configurations. This was implemented in cloudnative-pg/charts with commit 2f880f1b33c50f178a98bc4aa8a4376abe40d30e (#664). No major bugs fixed this month.