April 2026 monthly summary for elsa-core: Focused on reliability and data integrity in background workflow execution. Implemented decoupling of background workflow dispatches from the caller's cancellation token to prevent race conditions and ensure ongoing dispatches complete despite early cancellations, improving reliability and stability of workflow execution. Fixed input handling for child workflows by creating distinct input copies per dispatch, eliminating shared mutable dictionaries across iterations. These changes reduce race conditions and mutation leaks in multi-dispatch scenarios, especially for BulkDispatchWorkflows.

During 2026-01, containerd/containerd delivered a focused enhancement to CRI container status reporting by populating the ImageId field with the platform-specific image config digest, while preserving backward compatibility with ImageRef. The work involved two commits and updated test coverage to validate the new field, aligning with Kubernetes CRI improvements and improving node-level image traceability.