**MCATS improvements** - Improved timeout handling, including startup and shutdown behavior. - Reduced frame allocation overhead through the introduction of a frame pool. - Replaced shared_ptr with unique_ptr where appropriate. - Added the InputTimeoutInMs configuration parameter. - Improved merger-level attribution and diagnostic logging. **FrameSelector and event processing** - Introduced FrameSelector to remove frames outside validated event windows. - Interaction between AgataEventBuilder and FrameSelector, including watermark information and valid time spans. **SQM2ADF** - Improved output and ensured UDP IDs and timestamps increase monotonically. - Added generation of the .spec calibration file when processing stops. **DAEmule** - Added configurable filter lists while maintaining backward compatibility. - Added improved topology display and startup diagnostics. - Added configurable handling of consecutive empty blocks through max_retry_count. **Central Memory** - Added the ability for CMConsumer to send data to multiple FIFOs and optionally retain data in central memory. - Added the possibility for the CF_Splitter to mirror output data to a central-memory FIFO. - Binder/Splitter configuration has been migrated from the legacy text .conf format to JSON. - Improved timeout handling in Binder/Splitter. **ADFFrameHistogramer** - Support for an optional JSON configuration file, including configuration of the output filename. **PSA** - Added support for a lightweight ADL format. **LNL configuration** - Updated the LNL configuration to the September 2026 version, including EXOTIC and NOSE. **Build and development infrastructure** - Added a Portable build type to improve compatibility, notably for Docker images. - Updated compilation options and optimizations. - Modernized ROOT package discovery in CMake, removing reliance on $ROOTSYS. - Updated gcovr to avoid errors. - Migrated to the new IP2IGAMMA scripts repository. - Applied various CppCheck and code-quality fixes.