February 2026 (2026-02) — Focused on performance optimization of the ROCm/aiter build process to reduce developer and CI workloads. Delivered a Build Performance Optimization feature that defers heavy imports and build logic to actual build command execution, moving core work into NinjaBuildExtension.run() and keeping directory copies for aiter_meta at module level to satisfy setuptools package validation. The change reduces metadata-only operation times from ~45 minutes to ~1 second and lays groundwork for faster, more scalable builds.