March 2025 monthly summary for facebook/lexical focusing on targeted quality improvements in markdown processing. Key delivery: bug fix to prevent markdown shortcuts from applying to code-formatted text, preserving code block integrity and user intent. The fix is associated with commit 8d30f68ba442de4e56b54867269d5b054aab8bf3 as part of issue #7395. Business value: prevents unintended markdown transformations inside code blocks, reducing user confusion, potential data loss in code samples, and support overhead. This work also reinforces the editor’s reliability for developers who rely on precise code formatting in documentation and code comments. Technical impact: introduced a guard in the lexical-markdown processing path to ignore shortcuts when adjacent or sibling nodes are code-formatted, demonstrating careful edge-case handling, code review discipline, and traceable changes across the repo.