During this period, work focused on enhancing networking reliability and test infrastructure across the cilium/cilium and DataDog/cilium repositories. In cilium/cilium, altname-based interface ownership and MTU control were implemented using Go and Linux kernel development, ensuring only Cilium-managed devices could have their MTU modified and improving interface management. WireGuard traffic rule logic was refactored to use protocol and port-based criteria, aligning with notrack policy for better performance. IPv6 route testing infrastructure was stabilized by introducing a dummy device and refining loopback address handling. Additionally, build stability was improved in cilium/little-vm-helper-images by pinning the Ubuntu base image.