February 2026 focused on stabilizing JIT compilation in XLA by eliminating a use-after-free race in the JitCompiler's Task/ThreadPool lifetime. Introduced TaskHolder indirection to decouple task lifetimes from thread-pool queue entries, ensuring resources are freed immediately after execution. This prevents crashes in resource-constrained environments and during repeated CompileAndLoad cycles (PjRtClient). Added a CPU JitCompiler unit test that mimics Eigen ThreadPool behavior to validate immediate resource release. The change was implemented in Intel-tensorflow/xla with commit 72c04dfd6ec47a575f19d42652e22e400c3c5e47. Co-authored by Jimmy O'Rourke. Overall, improved reliability and stability with minimal risk to existing flows; supports ChromeOS/CrosVM deployments and high-frequency compile workloads.