During October 2025, Akasala focused on stabilizing the CI pipeline for the blackduck-inc/black-duck-security-scan repository by addressing issues with dependency management. They implemented a deterministic testing approach using YAML and DevOps practices, ensuring that automated tests and sanity checks ran against a fixed set of dependencies. By preventing automatic library upgrades during CI actions, Akasala reduced flakiness caused by external library changes and improved the reliability of test results. This work enhanced build reproducibility and accelerated release readiness, reflecting a thoughtful approach to CI/CD pipeline stability and dependency control within a security-focused development environment.