[repo-status] Daily Repo Status – April 7, 2026 🚀

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microsoft/testfx | MSTest + Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP)
Latest stable: v4.2.1 (published today! 🎉) · Next cycle: MSTest 4.2.2 / MTP 2.2.2 & MSTest 4.3 / MTP 2.3 🎯

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🎉 Big News: v4.2.1 Released Today!

v4.2.1 was published today (April 7) — great work, team! The release notes are available in Changelog.md. Post-release housekeeping is already in full swing. 🛠️

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📬 Today's Highlights (April 7)

✅ Merged PRs

PR	Description	Author
#7688	Fix: Remove duplicate @ prefix from issueAuthor in GitOps	@Evangelink
#7685	Update changelogs for v4.2.1	@Youssef1313

🔧 Open PRs (Active Post-Release Work)

PR	Description	Status
#7682	Bump patch version → 4.2.2 / 2.2.2	🆕
#7683	Mark APIs as shipped	🆕
#7684	Update public samples to v4.2.1	🆕
#7686	Update CodeQL to run on rel/4.2	🆕
#7687	Don't run PR pipeline for CodeQL YAML changes	🆕
#7689	Update VSTest to 18.4.0	🆕
#7677	[main] Update deps from dotnet/arcade	🤖 auto
#7678	[main] Update deps from microsoft/testfx	🤖 auto

🚧 Larger In-Progress PRs

PR	Description	Author
#7444	Improve assertion error messages with structured format	@Evangelink
#7597	Remove Polyfill NuGet package dependency	@Evangelink
#7535	Cache reflection lookups in DynamicDataOperations	@Evangelink
#7355	Add Assert.Scope() for soft assertions	@Evangelink
#7511	Simplify retry extension logic to use built-in filters	@Evangelink

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🐛 Open Issues Spotlight

🆕 New Community Issue

• #7680 — Customizable Failure Modes via Extensions (filed today by james-newell-forge) — requests first-class extension support for signaling test-run failure (e.g., coverage thresholds). Needs triage. 👀

🔥 Active Design / Breaking Change Discussions

• #7665 — [Breaking] Don't set IsTestingPlatformApplication from MTP
• #7664 — [Breaking] Change default of --show-stdout/--show-stderr to failed
• #6529 — Blocking data consumers for MTP extensibility
• #2035 — Handle SIGTERM shutdown signal for cancellation
• #7647 — Add "no progress" and "no ANSI" environment variables

🔧 Assertions

• #6690 & #6691 — Assert.That double-evaluation and reporting inconsistencies (being addressed via #7444)

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📊 Quick Stats

Category	Count
Open PRs	20
Open Issues (tracked)	20+
PRs merged today	2
New issues today	1
Releases this week	1 🎉

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✅ Recommended Next Steps

1. 🔀 Review & merge the post-release PRs (#7682, #7683, #7684, #7686, #7687) to wrap up the v4.2.1 release cycle.
2. 🏷️ Triage the new community issue #7680 — it touches extensibility architecture worth an early look.
3. 🔍 Review the two breaking change proposals (#7664, #7665) for scheduling in v4.3 / MTP 2.3.
4. 💪 Advance the big-ticket PRs (#7444 structured assertions, #7355 soft assertions) — these are high-value developer experience improvements.
5. 📦 Unblock #7597 (Remove Polyfill dependency) — keeps the dependency footprint lean.

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