July 2025 monthly summary for Esri/calcite-design-system focused on dependency management and cross-package compatibility. Key achievement: unpinned the 'lit' dependency to provide downstream packages more flexibility when upgrading across Calcite and Lumina, aligning with issue #12613. Implemented via a dedicated chore/deps commit that improves upgrade paths and reduces pinning risk. No user-facing feature additions or bug fixes were recorded this month; the change enhances stability and maintainability for the design system ecosystem. Overall impact: reduces dependency constraints for downstream consumers, accelerates safe upgrades, and strengthens collaboration between design-system and related packages. This work underpins longer-term business value by supporting faster iteration cycles and fewer integration bottlenecks. Technologies/skills demonstrated: dependency management and unpinning strategies, semantic commit hygiene, issue-driven development, cross-repo coordination, and release hygiene.