April 2026 monthly summary for Lima repository (lima-vm/lima). The work focused on expanding test coverage for local path utilities, hardening remote command execution reliability, and addressing template DNS propagation issues to improve stability in multi-tenant deployments. Key achievements (top 3): 1) Added unit tests for Localpathutil Expand to validate tilde expansion, input variations, and error handling. Commit: 6a1642c1ec73383b680cddfe56b8810f91600172. 2) Improved SSH command reliability by preserving original arguments while appending new parameters and hardening current-directory handling against mounted paths. Commits: cd1cedd78cca00a957242baf56e64b7d74c3d384; c3ae08ecfc10a57b318efa5ba657a263b47c13a3. 3) Fixed Lima Template DNS propagation: ensure DNS entries are deleted only when the base template list is non-empty and added tests for DNS copying behavior. Commit: 6379574c936e09c76cc9d22a87eeccbd4a304acd. Overall impact and accomplishments: Strengthened reliability and correctness in core runtime paths (local path handling, SSH execution, and template DNS logic), expanded automated test coverage to reduce regression risk, and delivered changes with clear ownership and traceability via commit messages. These improvements reduce runtime errors in remote operations, prevent stale DNS configurations in template inheritance, and provide a more robust baseline for future feature work. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Go-based unit testing, careful slice handling to avoid unintended mutations, robust path and mount validation, shell/SSH command handling and argument preservation, DNS/template propagation logic, and enhanced test coverage.