January 2026: OSGeo/gdal stability and correctness improvements. Delivered a critical fix for floating-point minimum sentinel value handling to ensure negative values are represented correctly in calculations. Replaced min() usage with std::numeric_limits<float>::lowest(), preventing erroneous results in numeric pipelines and data processing workflows. The change is tracked in commit 565cd6303bf1f54a46723a0a4252aaf56855e101 with message: 'millionpoundhat: Use lowest instead of lowest() instead of min() because min() returns the smallest positive value for floating point types, not the smallest (most negative) value.'