February 2026 monthly summary for sonic-net development team. Delivered targeted reliability improvements across two repositories, focusing on startup stability and service availability. Key changes include enabling Docker socket activation with -H fd:// to prevent hangs before docker.service starts in sonic-buildimage, and fixing a getopt parsing bug for the -R flag in OrchAgent to avoid startup errors when ring_thread_enabled is true in DEVICE_METADATA. Both changes were accompanied by documentation updates and verification steps, reducing operational risk and improving deployment resilience. This month also reinforces the team's ability to diagnose low-level activation issues, implement surgical patches, and maintain clean, traceable commits.