September 2025 highlights include delivering a feature-flag driven enhancement for permanent late submissions in the TestQTI extension, stabilizing late-saving behavior on timeouts, and upgrading the TestQTI dependency to v48.21.3. The work improved submission reliability during timeout events, reduced risk of unintended data loss, and strengthened cross-repo alignment between extension-tao-testqti and tao-community. Notable fixes included correcting the validation method and removing an unnecessary type cast, with tests updated to exercise the feature flag. Documentation updates accompanied code changes, and test/tooling adjustments were completed to support ongoing validation and deployment.

In July 2025, focused on reliability and data integrity for the oat-sa/extension-tao-testqti extension by delivering Late Submission Handling in the Timeout Service. The feature conditionally saves item responses only when late submissions are allowed and adds robust handling for invalid or empty responses during timeouts, ensuring the tools state is saved and the runner service check executes. This work reduces the risk of data corruption during timeouts and improves end-to-end scoring reliability. Key commits and outcomes include the fix commit addressing timeout handling: 20169e7f9ef2f671755c3f19c4bf98ef88c312fd.