[repo-status] Daily Repo Status — March 30, 2026

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🌟 Daily Status Report — March 30, 2026

Good morning, team! Here's a snapshot of what's happening in microsoft/testfx today.

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📦 Release Landscape

Component	Stable	Latest Preview
MSTest	v4.1.0 (Feb 4)	4.2.1-preview.26177.4
Microsoft.Testing.Platform	v2.1.x	2.2.1-preview.26177.4

MSTest 4.2 is actively in preview — the team is working toward a stable release. Keep an eye on the pre-shipping checklist!

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🚀 Recent Activity (last 3 days)

✅ Merged PRs

PR	Title	Author
#7627	Add agentic workflow daily-repo-status	@Evangelink
#7625	Re-enable signing validation	@Evangelink
#7623	Update dependencies from microsoft/testfx	🤖 dotnet-maestro
#7622	Update dependencies from dotnet/arcade	🤖 dotnet-maestro
#7621	Fix enable-auto-merge permissions	@Youssef1313
#7620	Auto-approve maestro PRs	@Youssef1313
#7616	Fix auto-merge workflow	@Youssef1313
#7603	Cleanup TestSettingsFile	@Youssef1313

🔄 Open PRs

PR	Title	Author	Status
#7629	Downgrade .NET SDK in global.json	@Youssef1313	⚠️ CI workaround needed

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⚠️ Pipeline Alert

There is an active CI pipeline issue affecting the official build:

• Root cause: dotnet/sdk#52863 broke darc installation when PSM is used
• Attempted fix #7628 (Remove PSM from NuGet.config) didn't resolve it
• Current workaround: #7629 downgrade of .NET SDK in global.json
• Upstream fix tracked in dotnet/arcade#16642

👉 Action needed: Review and merge #7629 to unblock the official pipeline.

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🐛 Issues Needing Attention

Pre-4.2 Blocker

• #7612 Revise recent output change before shipping 4.2 — needs resolution before 4.2 goes stable

Recently Active Bugs

• #7618 MSTEST0037 does not handle nullable arguments correctly — analyzer bug, reported today
• #7578 MSTEST0017: false positive with user-defined conversion operators — analyzer false positive, active discussion
• #7606 [TestCategory] on subclass no longer propagates to inherited [TestMethod]s in MSTest v4 — regression reported by community
• #7591 Unhandled exception in Execute method — needs investigation

Feature Requests Worth Noting

• #7556 RetryAttribute support at class/assembly level
• #5364 Allow placeholders in --report-trx-filename
• #7515 Filtering parametrized tests by just test name

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🤖 Automation Improvements (this week)

The team has been investing in CI/CD automation this week:

• ✅ Auto-approve and auto-merge for Maestro dependency update PRs
• ✅ Re-enabled signing validation (was temporarily disabled)
• ✅ First daily repo status agentic workflow live! 🎉

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💡 Recommended Next Steps

1. 🔥 Merge #7629 to restore the official pipeline
2. 📋 Triage #7612 — confirm what output change needs revision before 4.2 ships
3. 🔍 Investigate #7618 and #7578 — both are analyzer correctness issues
4. 🐛 Reproduce #7606 — [TestCategory] inheritance regression in v4 affects real users
5. 📦 Plan MSTest 4.2 release timeline — preview builds are flowing; finalize scope and date

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Last updated: 2026-03-30

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