March 2026 saw a purposeful push to deliver customer-facing capabilities, harden reliability, and improve developer experience across the Quarkus and Zed codebases. Key features and improvements delivered include support for Redis Streams CLAIM in XREADGROUP with 8.4+ gating and enhanced test coverage, enabling automatic reclaim of idle messages and surfacing claim metadata; a new CORS option to return literal '*' under safe conditions to increase deployment flexibility; opt-in discovery of config sources in Quarkus tests to improve configuration coverage without destabilizing existing test suites; a standalone OIDC Dev Service with strengthened developer docs to streamline onboarding when container tooling is unavailable; and several reliability/observability improvements to surface configuration issues earlier and reduce noisy warnings (duplicate metric registration handling and filtered proxy-generation warnings), alongside Lambda Recorder naming fixes across the ObjectMapper usage.