June 2026: Maintained compatibility and lifted upgrade risk for the New Relic Helm charts by delivering a targeted dependency upgrade for New Relic Synthetics. Upgraded node-browser-runtime and node-api-runtime to the latest compatible versions in the newrelic/helm-charts, driven by a single commit. The change reduces runtime friction and positions the chart for upcoming releases, with adherence to upstream contribution guidelines and checks.

Concise monthly summary for 2026-03 focusing on governance improvements and release readiness across two repositories: newrelic/entity-definitions and newrelic/helm-charts. Highlights include Synthetics ownership realignment and a formal release of the Synthetics Job Manager via Helm charts; includes a Podman compatibility bug fix and stronger release hygiene for faster, reliable deployments.

September 2025 monthly summary: Delivered a Chrome Version Compatibility Update for Helm charts in newrelic/helm-charts to ensure compatibility with newer Chrome versions and minimize test flakiness. Implemented targeted upgrades to synthetics-job-manager and node-browser-runtime charts with small version bumps to reflect the upgrade.

June 2025 monthly summary for development focused on Helm charts maintenance in the newrelic/helm-charts repository. Delivered release-focused chart updates for synthetics-job-manager and ping-runtime, with explicit version bumps in Chart.yaml to reflect new releases and bundled bug fixes. Changes were implemented through two commits that update Chart.yaml and related YML for both charts, improving deployment clarity and release traceability.