In January 2026, Burak Ekici developed a privacy-focused configuration feature for the streamlit/streamlit repository, enabling users to control the visibility of external help links in exception messages. He introduced the client.showExceptionLinks option, accessible via a new TOML config path, allowing organizations to disable these links for enhanced privacy and security compliance. The implementation involved both Python and TypeScript, with updates to React-based front end components and comprehensive unit testing to ensure correct behavior. No major bugs were addressed during this period, but the work demonstrated careful attention to privacy requirements and robust test coverage for the new configuration flow.