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Field notes on cybersecurity, AI-assisted development, infrastructure, and the craft of shipping things that actually work.

Infographic of the issue-to-release journey for unifi-mcp: issue #5 reports two port-forward bugs (empty fwd_ip and a silent no-op partial PUT), the fix flows into PR #6 with Resolves #5, a squash-merge to main, a SemVer patch bump to v0.4.1, a Keep-a-Changelog entry, a git tag plus published GitHub Release marked Latest, and the issue closed with an explanatory note.

Open Source MCP UniFi GitHub SemVer Release Management

From Bug Report to Release: Maintaining an Open-Source MCP

Someone filed issue #5 against my UniFi MCP: two port-forward bugs, one of them a silent no-op that reported success. Here is the whole journey from bug report to a published v0.4.1 release, and the open-source hygiene that makes a merge into something users can actually install.

Chris Johnson·June 14, 2026·14 min read

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