During December 2025, H198798337 enhanced the Global Least-Request Load Balancer in the alibaba/higress repository, focusing on operational reliability and traffic safety. They implemented a cleanup mechanism to automatically remove outdated hosts, ensuring the load balancer maintains an accurate and efficient host pool. Additionally, they introduced rate limiting based on maximum request counts, which helps prevent overload and promotes safer traffic distribution. The work leveraged Go and Lua for backend development, with Redis supporting state management. While no bugs were reported or fixed during this period, the feature delivered practical improvements in load balancing and operational hygiene for production environments.