Delivered two major capabilities for Financial-Times/dotcom-tool-kit in January 2026: (1) Environment Variable Resolution in Toolkit Configuration via a new YAML tag, with tests covering behavior when environment variables are not set. (2) Docker Build Arguments (buildArgs) support, enabling dynamic build args through YAML with schema defaults, minor cleanups, and documentation updates. These changes enhance configuration flexibility, enable environment-specific deployments, and streamline CI/CD pipelines.

November 2025 monthly summary for Financial-Times/dotcom-tool-kit: Delivered environment-aware asset uploads to S3 for UploadAssetsToS3 to route assets to the correct bucket across environments, including support for review apps. Implemented environment-based logic via isReviewApp parameter and added a corresponding type definition in uploadFile. No major bugs documented for this month.

October 2025 performance summary: Delivered two high-impact changes across FT repos to improve dependency monitoring and runtime alignment. Implemented Dependabot o3 package monitoring in dotcom-page-kit and dropped Node.js 18 support in dotcom-tool-kit, aligning with Node.js 20+ across CI, tests, and plugins. No major bugs fixed this month. These efforts improve security posture, build stability, and dev velocity, while simplifying maintenance and future updates.

Implemented Origami Image Service v3 migration for favicons/icons and image resizing in dotcom-page-kit. Updated image service host URLs and default source parameters to align with the v3 service, and refreshed tests accordingly. Changes are captured in two commits: 7e0199a29d6be362c07a6dd852c25e8a6ede8b1b and 1591e81b590df0ad44c89f1811a6094a2260bf97.