This release strengthens pipeline reliability through distributed lock TTL renewal on auto-chains, SubFlow ErrorBoundary delegation to parent flows, and end-to-end Stage propagation in the TransitionPipeline. Infrastructure and CI/CD fixes address stale Docker image tags from common.props, non-fast-forward release pushes, and transient Microsoft Container Registry pull failures. Platform metadata expands with new Instance fields, transition annotations, View renderer hints, exposure of the cancel transition in availableTransitions, and shared transitions available State-wide via "availableIn": ["all"]. NotificationTask is revived with full State function response binding, and tooling adds the @burgan-tech/vnext-meta package plus configurable Kestrel request header limits.