Month: 2026-04 | Repository: intel/vpl-gpu-rt Summary: Focused on stabilizing builds in environments with security software interference and delivering reliability improvements for the GPU runtime component. No new user-facing features were released this month; the emphasis was on build stability, reproducibility, and CI confidence to accelerate release readiness. Key outcomes: - Build stability under security software interference: Implemented a workaround in the build process to prevent failures caused by CrowdStrike locking binaries by adjusting linker behavior (disabling manifest embedding and incremental linking), ensuring reliable build completion. - Risk mitigation and reproducibility: Reduction in flaky builds and race conditions during scans, contributing to a more predictable CI pipeline and faster feedback loops. - Documentation and process alignment: Captured the approach and rationale to enable team reuse and future maintenance. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Build-system tuning and linker flag configuration - Debugging under antivirus/security software constraints - CI reliability engineering and risk mitigation