Month: 2025-07 — Open-quantum-safe/liboqs focused on API governance and developer onboarding through explicit public vs internal API documentation. Delivered a clear distinction between public APIs (marked with OQS_API) and internal APIs, clarifying usage, linking, and that the internal library is not installed or intended for external linking. This reduces downstream misuse and supports safer integration with downstream projects.

June 2025 monthly summary for open-quantum-safe/liboqs. Delivered reliability and release-readiness improvements, focusing on HQC constant-time testing, build configuration enhancements, and preparation for liboqs 0.14.0 RC. Strengthened testing and documentation to support customer deployment and risk reduction in production.

April 2025 quarterly/monthly summary focusing on security, governance, and contributor recognition. Delivered targeted improvements that strengthen security posture, clarify governance, and formalize collaboration across two repositories, with a clear link to business value and product reliability. Technologies demonstrated include GitHub Actions CI/CD permissions management, governance documentation processes, and relicensing contributor workflows.

Monthly summary for 2025-03 highlighting key features delivered, major bug fixes, and overall impact. This period focused on improving testability, security readiness, and integration reliability across the liboqs ecosystem and ML-KEM integration.

February 2025 monthly summary for open-quantum-safe/liboqs focusing on delivering cross-environment readiness and ML-crypto example enhancements. No explicit bug fixes recorded for this period; all work drove feature updates and CI/CD improvements to support L1/L2 ML-based crypto workflows across latest platforms.

2025-01 monthly summary for open-quantum-safe/liboqs: CI infrastructure update focused on ARM builds. Delivered a migration to the public Ubuntu 24.04 ARM runner, replacing oqs-arm64 in both actionlint and the linux CI workflows to ensure compatibility with the latest Ubuntu LTS for ARM builds. Notable commit: 99affa69359a54d2436c2458045142021bd81cf3 with message "Update to public Ubuntu 24.04 ARM runner [full tests] (#2050)".

December 2024 highlights focused on strengthening CI reliability and cross-language integration for the open-quantum-safe liboqs repository. Key work delivered includes downstream CI automation for liboqs-java and liboqs-rust triggered on main pushes, and an HQC PQClean update with outdated patch removal to improve stability across HQC algorithms. No major bugs were recorded for this repository this month. Overall impact includes faster feedback loops, safer integration testing for dependent projects, reduced maintenance overhead, and improved onboarding for contributors. Technologies demonstrated include CI/CD automation, cross-language build/test orchestration (Java and Rust), PQClean integration and patch management, and robust release readiness for dependent ecosystems.

November 2024 — liboqs: Focused on stabilizing the codebase, expanding cross-platform support, and tightening upstream integration. Key features delivered: removal of SPHINCS+ aarch64 code with an upstream delete option to streamline CI (commit f7f6af08953ad772f280652e10e0e9c0d3fe50da), platform support expanded to ppc641e and s390x on Ubuntu Focal with CROSS re-enabled and a README badge (commit 77aa1455e5b581c35d00cb5928cef9ac60e932e3), and ML-KEM versioning updated to FIPS203 (commit 25206cdcb89f170e4fc696d37c684b0927bb4d7a). Major bugs fixed: macOS CI runner deprecation addressed by removing macos-12 runner (commit 8bf124f1fcc8e73dace94bf2eb8c59441a06b8a8), and HQC decapsulation corrected via upstream patch with documentation updates (commits 95f904bcaafe4cb12cfdf029347ac3b7c795308a and cce1bfde4e52c524b087b9687020d283fbde0f24). Overall impact and accomplishments: reduced maintenance burden, broader platform reach, more stable CI, and improved compliance and correctness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: upstream patching, copy_from_upstream.py usage, cross-platform build configuration, CI/CD hygiene (GitHub Actions/README updates), and versioning discipline for algorithm suites (FIPS203).